Chapter 11 Flashcards
Identify the location on the map.
Chrysopolis (Scutari)
Identify the location on the map.
Baghdad
Identify the location on the map.
Heraclea
Identify the location on the map.
Black Sea
Find Chrysopolis (Scutari).
Find Baghdad.
Find Heraclea.
Find the Black Sea.
male leader of an Islamic country
caliph
Aaron the Just
Harun-al-Rashid
most celebrated of the caliphs
Empress of the Byzantine Empire; agreed to pay protection money to Harun-al-Rashid
Empress Irene
Irene’s general
NIcetas
defeated by Harun-al-Rashad
Nicetas
usurped Irene’s throne
Nicephorus
refused further payments to Harun
Nicephorus
“Tell the Empress that I will spare Constantinople if she will pay me 70,000 pieces of gold as a yearly tribute.:
Harun-al-Rashid
“She ought to have made you pay tribute to her.”
Nicephorus
“Thou shalt not hear, thou shalt SEE my reply.”
Harun-al-Rashid
to seize and hold power that rightfully belongs to another
usurp
