Quarter 1 Review Flashcards
The Islamic religions is a direct result of what?
The revelations of Muhammad
What were the 4 river civilizations?
1) Nile River (Egypt)
2) Mesopotamia (Tigris & Upharates)
3) Indus River valley
4) Huanghe river (China)
What was Muhammad’s role in Islam?
Profit of Allah
What is the holy book of Islam?
Qur’an
List and describe the 5 pillars of Islam
1) Faith
- practiced every day
2) Prayer
- 5 times a day
3) Charity (alms)
- once a year about 10%
4) Fasting
- during the holy month of Ramadan fast between dawn and sunset
5) Pilgrimage
- the hajj must go to Mekkah once in their lifetime
Who were the rightly guided caliphs?
Elected succesors of Muhammad
What were the Muslims empires a that followed the rightly guided caliphs?
Umayyad and Abbasid
Characteristics of the justinian code
Last thing written in Latin, body of civil law, Roman law. (Byzantine)
What is feudalism?
A social system based on the rights and obligations, feudal contract who controlled the land.
Between Lord and vassals. Fief was granted to vassals from Lord and the vassals job was to protect and be loyal to their lord.
What is the manorial system?
Helped revolutionize farming
Lord and serve or peasant
Peasants are bound to the land and need permission from the Lords to leave
The third Crusade. Why did it start? Who were the key players? How did it end?
Richard I. To retake Jerusalem; Frederick I Barbarosa and Philip II didn’t take Jerusalem
Christians to enter Jerusalem freely
Which Empire did the fourth Crusade weaken?
The bynzitine empire
Describe the great schism
Three popes in a church; had support from certain national rulers
The French wanted the pope to live in avaigone
The Italians wanted the pope to live in Rome
The Council of Constants ended it with one pope living in Rome
How did warfare change during the hundred years war?
New weapons, peasant foot soldiers, longbow, Canon and gunpowder
Put the trading states of west Africa in order from oldest to youngest
Ghana, Mali, Songhai
