Byzantine Empire Key Vocabulary Important People Islam, Judaism, Christianity or All Basic Beliefs Important Places Islam’s Beginnings Potpourri 100 200.

Byzantine

Empire

Key Vocabulary

Important People

Islam, Judaism, Christianity

or All

Basic Beliefs

Important Places

Islam’s Beginnings

Potpourri

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He tried to restore the Roman Empire but is best known for his code of laws

Justinian

100

A narrow body of water that connects two larger

bodies of water

strait

100

People who practice Islam

Muslims

100

Are monotheistic

All

100

The key religious duties of every Muslim

The Five Pillars of Islam

100

The cube shaped holy shrine of Islam

Kaaba

100

The city where Islam began

Mecca

100

The split between the Roman Catholic Church and Eastern

Orthodox churches

The Great Schism

200

A holy image such as a painting or statue.

icon

200

Islam’s final prophet

Muhammad

200

Believe Abraham, Jesus and Muhammad were holy

prophets

Islam

200

The main source of Islamic teaching

Quran

200

A Muslim house of worship

Mosque

200

Muhammad’s journey from Mecca to Medina.

The Hijra

200

The places Byzantine culture and Eastern Orthodox

Christianity quickly spread to

Eastern Europe and Russia

300

Nomadic herders and skilled warriors

Bedouins

300

He was a traveler and trader who wrote a book all about

his travels

Ibn Battuta

300

Believe in a Messiah

Judaism & Christianity

300

This provides specific rules of personal conduct for

Muslims

Sharia

300

Baghdad

300

Abbasid capital that was a center for the “golden

age”

Sunnis and Shias

300

Muslims are divided into these two groups

The title of the leaders of the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox

Church

Pope and Byzantine Emperor

400

People depended on these in such a hot, dry climate

Oases

400

Justinian's wife

Theodora

400

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to wager?

Is the youngest of the three

Islam

400

The Fifth Pillar

Hajj

400

Muhammad is welcomed as it ruler

400

Medina

The 3 main reasons the Arab/ Muslim empire expanded so rapidly

The Persian/Byzantine empires decline; The ability of Muslim warriors and Religious

toleration

400

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wager?

Abraham, Moses and Muhammad were these

prophets

100

The large peninsula where Islam began

Arabia

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300

15%

Percentage of Muslims that are Shia

Arab mathematicians most significant contribution

Creating symbols for our numbers

400