Key People Flashcards
Who was Al-Ma’mun?
The Abbasid caliph from 813-833.
Who was Al-Mansur?
The Abbasid Caliph from 754-775.
Who was Al-Masudi?
An Arab geographer (896-956).
Who was Al-Razi?
A physician in Baghdad who wrote books on medicine (854-925).
Who was Arinisdus?
A monk who stole Saint Foy’s body in the 9th century to take to the monastery at Conques.
Who was Bernard of Angers?
A monk who wrote The Miracles of Saint Foy in the 11th century.
Who was Emperor Constantine?
Roman Empire who converted to Christianity and created a new capital at Constantinople.
Who was Empress Zoe?
Byzantine Empress, 1028-1050.
Who was Euclid?
A Greek mathematician from the 3rd century BCE.
Who was Foy?
A girl from Agen, France, who was killed for refusing to give up her Christian beliefs and became a saint.
Who was Galen?
A Greek doctor from the 2nd century CE.
Who was Guibert?
A servant who miraculously had his eyes restored.
Who was Ptolemy
A Greek astronomer from the 2nd century CE
