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(Willis) The Byzantine Empire & Islam

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Bedouins   Arab nomads who were organized into tribes and groups called clans.  
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Allah   Arabic for God.  
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Muhammad   A merchant who became convinced that he was the last of the prophets.  
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Islam   “submission to the will of Allah”  
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Muslim   “one who has submitted.”  
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Hijrah   Muhammad's migration to the town of Yathrib.  
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Umma   The Muslim religious community.  
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Mosque   An Islamic house of worship.  
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Hajj   The pilgrimage to Mecca.  
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The Five Pillars of Islam   Faith, Prayer,Alms, Fasting, & Pilgrimage.  
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Qur’an   The holy book of the Muslims.  
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Sunna   Muhammad’s example  
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Shari’a   This system of law regulates the family life, moral conduct, and business and community life of Muslims.  
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caliph   “successor”  
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caliphate   The rule of the “rightly guided” caliphs.  
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Jihad   Word that means “striving” and can refer to the inner struggle against evil. It is also used in the Qur’an to mean an armed struggle against unbelievers.  
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Abu-Bakr   Muhammad's successor.  
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Poll Tax   Muslims allowed conquered peoples to follow their own religion as long as they paid this tax.  
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Umayyads   The ruling family that moved the Muslim capital to Damascus.  
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Shi’ites   They believed the caliph needed to be a descendant of Muhammad.  
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Shi’a   The “party” of Ali.  
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Sunni   Followers of Muhammad’s example.  
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Sufi   They pursued a life of poverty and devotion to a spiritual path.  
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Abbasids   The most powerful of the rebel groups to overthrow the Umayyads.  
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al-Andalus   Southern Spain, where the remaining Umayyads set up their kingdom.  
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Fatimid Caliphate   State formed by Shi’a Muslims who claimed descent from Muhammad’s daughter Fatima.  
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sakk   “check.”  
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Baghdad   The Abbasid capital city  
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House of Wisdom   A combination library, academy, and translation center in Baghdad.  
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The Thousand and One Nights   A collection of fairy tales, parables, and legends.  
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Calligraphy   The art of beautiful handwriting  
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Al-Razi   He wrote an encyclopedia called the Comprehensive Book that drew on knowledge from Greek, Syrian, Arabic, and Indian sources as well as on his own experience.  
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Al-Khwarizmi   He wrote a textbook in the AD 800s explaining “the art of bringing together unknowns to match a known quantity.” He called this technique al-jabr—today called algebra.  
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Ibn Rushd   Philosopher who argued that Greek philosophy and Islam both had the same goal: to find the truth.  
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Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen)   A brilliant mathematician, produced a book called Optics that revolutionized ideas about vision. His studies about optics were used in developing lenses for telescopes and microscopes.  
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Moses Ben Maimon (Maimonides)   The greatest Jewish philosopher in history, he produced a book, "The Guide for the Perplexed", that blended philosophy, religion, and science.  
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Justinian   The Byzantine emperor wanted to reunite the Roman Empire  
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Plague   A disease that spreads quickly  
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Inflation   Rapidly increasing prices  
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Barter   To exchange goods without using money  
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Constantinople   Emperor Constantine moved his capital from Rome to here, which is now called Istanbul.  
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Constantine   The first Christian Emperor of Rome  
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Theodora   Byzantine Empress who helped women to gain more rights.  
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Trade   The Byzantine Empire was a Crossroads for _________.  
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Byzantine writers copied the works of Ancient ________ writers?   Greek  
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When _________ took power in AD 284 he introduced reforms and political change to make things better.   Diocletian  
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Western Rome Declined because of _______, ______ & ______.   Poor Leadership, Constant Invasion, Uncontrolled Immigration  
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Rome faced constant invasion and uncontrolled immigration from _________.   Germans  
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__________ introduced major reforms to the Roman Empire, but they all failed.   Diocletian  
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___________ moved the capital of Rome to Constantinople.   Constantine  
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__________ divided the Roman Empire into two separate Empires, East and West.   Theodosius  
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The ______ & ______ were barbarian hordes that sacked Rome.   Visigoths, Vandals  
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The Western Empire fell when _________ forced the last emperor, Romulus Augustulus to dissolve the Empire.   Odoacer  
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_______ is important because it was a crossroads of trade and a source of wealth & innovation.   Constantinople  
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________ improved women’s rights in the Byzantine Empire.   Theodora  
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_________ was the Roman General who reconquered Western Rome for Justinian.   Belisarius  
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_________ is best known for reconquering most of the Western Roman Empire, revising Roman Laws, & building the Hagia Sophia.   Justinian  
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______is the church Justinian is best known for having had built.   Hagia Sophia  
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Emperor Leo III made the use of icons illegal in what became known as_____.   The Iconoclast Controversy  
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The ______ Church split after the Pope and the Byzantine Patriarch Excommunicated each other.   Christian  
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The official split in the Christian church that created the Roman Catholic & Eastern Orthodox Church was called the _____.   Great Schism  
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The Byzantine Empire fell in ______, when it was conquered by the Ottoman Turks.   1453  
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______ was the founder of Islam.   Muhammad  
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_____ initially spread by force.   Islam  
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The ________ are the main teachings of Islam   Five Pillars  
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_______ is “Struggle in God’s Service”   Jihad  
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______is law created by Muslim Scholars over the centuries.   Sharia Law  
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______ was Muhammad’s successor.   Abu Bakr  
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______split because not all muslims believed Abu Bakr was Muhammad’s successor.   Islam  
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Islam split into two groups, the ______ & the _____.   Sunnis & Shiites  
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The _______ created an empire after the death of Ali.   Ummayads  
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_________ was the first major Female Historian.   Anna Comnena  
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The Byzantine empire was weakened by ____________ & __________.   Plague, Invasions  
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______ is the holy text of Islam.   Quran  
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