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Transition: England, The Church, And The Growth Of Islam Flashcards

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Who was Alfred the Great?

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  • The Saxon king of Wessex
  • Considered founder of English kingdom and greatest European ruler after Charlemagne
  • Also a scholar
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What was Danelaw?

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  • arranged by Alfred the Great
  • restricted Danes to North of Thames River and left Southern England under Alfred’s control

NTR LSE

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What was Alfred’s government based on?

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  • Germanic structure

- Alfred had his Witan, which consisted of nobles/earls, and thegns

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What was the wergild of a peasant and nobleman?

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P-200 shillings

N-1200 shillings

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Which Latin manuscripts did Alfred the Great order to be translated into Anglo-Saxon?

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  • Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation
  • Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy
  • Some books of the Scripture
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What was the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle?

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  • Alfred the Great urged this

- The earliest history of Anglo-Saxons

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Who were Edward and Athelstan?

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  • Alfred’s son and grandson

- powerful leaders

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Who was Eric Bloodaxe?

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Last Viking king of York, killed in 954

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Who was Bede?

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  • Venerable Bede
  • greatest scholars of his time
  • monk
  • wrote Ecclesiastical History of the English People
  • died in 735
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What is a fresco?

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Watercolor paintings done on wet plaster

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What is an illuminated manuscript?

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Manuscript decorated with gold

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What is a mosaic?

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Decoration or picture made of small pieces of stone and glass in a frame

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Who are Thanes?

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A member of a social class including lesser nobles, soldiers, and ministers

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When was Beowulf most likely written in?

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7th or 8th century

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What caused the revival of the Byzantine Empire from the 9th to 11th centuries?

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  • Macedonian kings

- ruled 200 years

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Who was the greatest king of the Macedonian dynasty?

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Basil II

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Who was Basil II?

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  • ‘Bulgarian Slayer’ because he devastated the Bulgarian army in 1014 and sent 15000 prisoners blinded
  • Gained the most territory held by the empire since Justinian
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During Basil II’s reign, what place was the cultural center of the Mediterranean?

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Constantinople

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Who were the two missionaries who were sent to Northumbria and Wessex?

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  • Willibrord of Ripon and Boniface

- famous for conversion of tribesmen in Germanic forests

20
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What are the two most famous illuminated manuscripts?

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  • Book of Kells

- Lindisfarne Gospels

21
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When did artistic pieces depicting the life of Christ become a controversy?

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8th and 9th centuries

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What did Emperor Leo III do to religious paintings and statues?

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  • 726

- ordered to be destroyed

23
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When was Iconoclasm condemned by the church?

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787

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When was there a break between Roman and Eastern churches?

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1054

25
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The peak of Islamic power was reached during which Caliphate?

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Abbasid Caliphate in 750

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Where did the Abbasids move their capital?

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Bagdad in Iraq

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During which caliph reigns did arts and sciences flourish

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Harum Al-Rashid and Al-Mamun

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Why did the decline of Islamic power in the 9th century occur?

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Increased:

  • foreign soldiers and palace guards made up of Turks
  • attention to luxury than military affairs
29
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When was Bagdad captured and by who?

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Seljuk Turks in 1055

30
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Who established the Umayyad Caliphate in Cordoba?

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  • 756

- Abd ar-Rahman

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Who often attacked Cordoba?

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Franks and scattered Spanish Christian groups

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When did the Caliphate of Cordoba fall?

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1031

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What was the Fatimid Caliphate?

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  • Shi’ites

- ruled Egypt and North Africa

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