Chapter 6 Vocab

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Icon

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Painted images of Christ and the Saints

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Excommunicate

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Depriving an individual of the sacraments and excluding him from the fellowship of the church

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Greek fire

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Constantinople’s chemical secret weapon

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Crusades

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When the West sent several military expeditions to free the east from Muslim invaders

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Mosaic

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Inlaid pieces of glass or stone in wet cement or plaster

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Rus

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The Slavic designation of the Norsemen; rowers or seafarers

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Bedouin

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Arab nomads who traveled through the harsh desert wilderness in independent bands searching for pastureland and water for their livestock

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Allah

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The god of Islam

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Islam

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A religion based on the teaching of Muhammed

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Muslim

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Follower of Islam; “submitter to Allah”

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Hegira

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The flight of Muhammad from Mecca to Medina; year one of the Muslim calendar

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Caliphs

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Successors of Muhammad who directed the affairs of Islam and exercised, spiritual, political, and military authority

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Jihad

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Islamic “holy war”

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Calligraphy

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The art of beautiful writing

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Mosque

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Place of Muslim worship

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Minaret

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A tower that is part of or adjacent to a mosque

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Muezzin

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One who calls faithful Muslims to prayer five times a day from a minaret

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Byzantine Empire

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The eastern Roman Empire after the Western Roman Empire fell

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New Rome

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Constantine’s name for Constantinople

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Justinian

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Byzantine emperor

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Nika Revolt

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A popular uprising crushed by Justinian early in his reign; the turning point of his reign

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Justinian Code

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A systematic arrangement of laws that clarified Roman legal principles

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Hagia Sophia

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Cathedral in Constantinople built by Justinian; finest example of Byzantine architecture

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Eastern Orthodox Church

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Made up of various national churches that refused to recognize the Church of Rome’s claim of control

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1054

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When the pope sent a delegation to Constantinople stating that he was assuming authority over the churches that had previously been under the patriarch’s authority

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Basil II

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Bulgar slayer; led Byzantine Empire to its height of military success

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Seljuk Turks

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Nomadic tribes from Central Asia that adopted Arab culture and the Islamic religion

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Battle of Manzikert

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Battle in Asia Minor between the Seljuk Turks and the Byzantines; established Turkish control of Asia Minor

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1453

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When the Byzantine empire came to an end; the Muslim Ottoman Turks, sacked Constantinople and killed the last Byzantine emperor

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Ottoman Turks

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Muslim invaders that sacked Constantinople

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Cyril

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A Byzantine missionary that developed the foundation of the Slavic written language

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Methodius

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A Byzantine missionary that developed the foundation of the Slavic written language

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Slavs

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The largest ethnic group in Russia, whose ancestors played a major role in establishing the early Russian state

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Varangians

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Swedish Norsemen who plundered Slavic villages during the eighth and ninth centuries

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Rurik

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Varangian warrior that gained control of Novgorod about 862

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Vladimir I

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Kievan ruler that made Orthodox Christianity as the official state religion in 988

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Yaroslav

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Strengthened Kiev’s position of leadership

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Tartars

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Fierce Mongolian warriors from Central Asia that destroyed Kiev

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Ishmael

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To whom the the Arabs trace their lineage ; Son of Abraham and brother off Isaac

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Muhammed

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Whose teachings the Muslims base their religion off of

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Kaaba

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A sacred shrine in Mecca that housed hundreds of pagan idols

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622

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Year of the Hegira

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Koran

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The sacred book of the Muslims

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Five pillars of Islam

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Muslim’s religious duties in order to get to heaven

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Abu Bakr

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First caliph of Islam

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Umayyads

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People that created a hereditary dynasty for Islam instead of caliphs

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Battle of Tours

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Year 732; Franks stopped Muslim expansion; France

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Abbasid

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Caliphate that marked the peak of the Muslim empire; during this caliphate the political unity of the Muslim world collapsed

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al-Razi

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Muslim physician; remembered for his work with smallpox

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ibn Sina

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Muslim physician; remembered for his work with tuberculosis

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Omar Khayyam

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Most renowned Muslim poet and also a famed mathematician

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Theodora

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Wife of emperor Justinian who encouraged him to stay even with the Nika Revolt