9808009952 | Hijrah | Muhammad's flight from Mecca to Medina | 0 | |
9808015726 | Umma | Community of Muhammad's followers | 1 | |
9808033822 | What year did Muhammad cleanse the Kaaba? | 629-630 AD | 2 | |
9808054929 | Zakat | Muslim tithe | 3 | |
9808088314 | Caliph | Successor of the prophet Muhammad | 4 | |
9808103138 | Which Caliph was assasinated? | Uthman of the Umayyad family, the 3rd Caliph | 5 | |
9808132400 | Who became Caliph after Uthman | Ali, the cousin and son in law of Muhammad | 6 | |
9808134681 | When was Ali assassinated? | 661 AD | 7 | |
9840903615 | What did Hasan's giving up of power lead to? | The Umayyad Dynasty which was mainly Sunni | 8 | |
9840914946 | Who was the Done of the Rock built under? | The Umayyad Dyansty | 9 | |
9840919799 | Capital of the Umayyad Dynasty? | Damascus | 10 | |
9840927244 | Umayyad Dynasty collapsed in the 700s due to | Civil War between Shia and Sunni | 11 | |
9840930386 | Malawi | Non-Arab Muslims | 12 | |
9840934153 | Abbasid Dynasty Capital | Baghdad | 13 | |
9840938359 | Abbasid defeated who at the battle of Talus | Tang Chinese Army —> discovered paper money | 14 | |
9840950830 | Abbasid Dynasty found | Classical writings of Athens and Rome, and translated them into Arabic. | 15 | |
9840958437 | Levant | Present day Israel, Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon (Holy Land) | 16 | |
9840962836 | Sufis | Islamic Missionaries | 17 | |
9840971544 | Women veiling began | In Mesopotamia, and Persia | 18 | |
9840982044 | Seljuk Turks | Nomadic Sunni group | 19 | |
9840985722 | Who destroyed the Abbasid Dynasty? | Mongols, Crusades helped | 20 | |
9840995835 | Roman Empire split in | 286 and 395 | 21 | |
9841009396 | Who made Christianity the official religion of Rome, and reunited Empire in Constantinople? | Constantine | 22 | |
9841015718 | Justinian is known for | 1.) Justinian Code 2.) Hagia Sophia 3.) Plan to recover W half of Europe | 23 | |
9841034831 | Catholic and Orthodox split happened in | 1034 | 24 | |
9841038087 | W was disorganized politically —> | Stronger Church | 25 | |
9841040045 | E was more organized politically —> | Less of involved Church | 26 | |
9841045420 | Slavic people's converted to Christianity because of | St Cyril, who made the Cyrillic Alphabet | 27 | |
9841050398 | Vladimir | Russian prince from Kiev who converged to Christianity. | 28 | |
9841055053 | Franks | Germanic tribes who eventually converted to Christianity | 29 | |
9841060267 | Franks became united in | The 400s by King Clovis | 30 | |
9841070013 | Frank "Empire" | Constantly unified, and broke apart | 31 | |
9841077347 | Who led Franks to victory at the Battle of Tours | Charles Martel | 32 | |
9841081814 | Charles's son Pepin the Short | Was crowned by the Pope | 33 | |
9841099058 | Charlemagne built the "Holy Roman Empire" but it was | Divied amongst his grandsons by the Treaty of Verdun | 34 | |
9841106608 | Vikings attacked | Constantinople 3 times | 35 | |
9841111484 | William | Famous Viking / Norman who conquered Anglo-Saxon England in 1066. | 36 | |
9841116280 | Vikings also | Converted to Christianity | 37 | |
9888816127 | Shogun | King and Nobles | 38 | |
9888816128 | Daimyo | Lords | 39 | |
9888817906 | Lesser Daimyo | Vassals | 40 | |
9888817907 | Peasants | Peasants and Serfs | 41 | |
9888822330 | Primogeniture | Passing rights to eldest son | 42 | |
9888826007 | By the 1000s | Europe was re-engaging with the world | 43 | |
9888829258 | Burghers | -Middle class merchants -Citizen of town or city, often members of the bourgeoisie. | 44 | |
9888830603 | Hanseatic League | Econ alliance established in 1358, that aided much of N Europe. | 45 | |
9888837364 | Pope Innocent III | Led multiple inquisitions to target heresy | 46 | |
9888859111 | Scholasticism | -Founding of universities, and the spread of work from scholars. -Knowledge spread through the Crusades, as Europeans received writings of Greeks that the Arabs had. | 47 | |
9888879106 | Interregnum | A time between kings in Germany | 48 | |
9888887877 | King John | Forced to sign the Magna Carta in 1215 AD | 49 | |
9888900782 | 100 Years' War | War between England and France on French territory that England claimed. | 50 | |
9888920434 | Queen Isabella, who was the ruler of Castile married | Ferdinand, heir to the Spanish Kingdom of Aragon | 51 | |
9888923765 | Emperor Xuanzong | Tang Emperor who expanded territory N, E and SE. | 52 | |
9888942059 | Tang Dynasty collapsed in 907 | because it was too large and couldn't oversee everything. | 53 | |
9888957191 | Song Dynasty took power in | 960 | 54 | |
9888960282 | Song Dynasty fell to the | Mongols, who created the Yuan Dynasty. | 55 | |
9888971623 | Ming Dynasty came after | the Yuan | 56 | |
9888974709 | Even when the Mongols ruled China, | the underlying bureaucracy remained. | 57 | |
9888977089 | Chinese tribute system targeted | Vietnam, Korea, Tibet, etc. | 58 | |
9888984009 | By 1450, China was | at the top, but it later chose to isolate itself. | 59 | |
9888988465 | Champa | Fast ripening rice from Vietnam | 60 | |
9888991106 | 600 --> 1200 China's population went from | 45 million to 115 million | 61 | |
9888992879 | Wu Zhao | First and only Empress of China, she was compassionate to peasants | 62 | |
9888998213 | Mahayana Buddhism | Teaches to seek a life apart from worldly values. | 63 | |
9889009164 | Chan Buddhism | -Emphasized meditation, and appreciation of beauty. -Won converts in the educated classes | 64 | |
9889019952 | Emperor Wuzong | led a persecution against Buddhists in the mid 800s, during the Tang Dynasty. | 65 | |
9889027652 | Japan 1st ruling clan | Yamato Clan, current emperor is a descendant of them | 66 | |
9889034428 | Shinto | -"Way of Gods" -Animism in Japan | 67 | |
9889042858 | Japanese often blended | Buddhism and Shintoism | 68 | |
9889046184 | Prince Shotoku | Borrowed bureaucratic and legal reforms, following Tang Dynasty | 69 | |
9889049586 | Japanese largely rejected | Confucianism and the civil service exam, due to their emphasis on heredity | 70 | |
9889053474 | Fujiwara | -Powerful aristocratic family who intermarried with the Emperor's family and soon ran the affairs of the country. -Led to the Shogun | 71 | |
9889063359 | Korea adoped | Confucianism and Chan Buddhism | 72 | |
9889068039 | Delhi Sultanate | -Islamic Kingdom in India -Islam and Hinduism are bipolar -Hindu temples were sometimes destroyed and occasionally violence erupted in communities. -Colleges were founded, and irrigation was vastly improved | 73 | |
9889083325 | Kush | -African kingdom S of Egypt. -Kush developed at about the same time as ancient Egypt and at one point conquered part of it in 750 BC. -Eventually they retreated back to their capital Meroe | 74 | |
9889099885 | Axum | -Modern day Ethiopia -Converted to Christianity in the 300s -Many converted to Islam in the 600s | 75 | |
9889111879 | Ghana | -800-->1000 -Kingdom in W Africa with tons of gold -Traded with Islamic Empires -Collapsed after Holy War led by Muslims tried to convert the nation. | 76 | |
9889122886 | Mali | -1200-->1450 -Coverted to Islam -Mansa Musa made pilgrimage to Mecca | 77 | |
9889130452 | Songhai | -Sonni Ali conquered a large area -Timbuktu became a major cultural center, with a university that drew scholars from around the Muslim world. | 78 | |
9889136034 | Benin | Bronze sculpting technique | 79 | |
9889138980 | Cuzco may have had | as many as 300,000 people in the 1400s | 80 | |
9889142593 | Incan rulers | were mummified after death | 81 | |
9889144931 | Quipu | Incan set of knotted strings, for data keeping | 82 | |
9889148630 | Incan were excellent builders, as seen in | Temple of the Sun, and Machu Picchu | 83 | |
9902059874 | The area in which Islam showed the most profound change from the 600s to the 1400s was | in the role of women | 84 | |
9902064806 | Lower Hindu castes embraced | Islam because of its emphasis on equality. | 85 | |
9902076937 | Primary source of Muhammad's teachings | The Hadith | 86 | |
9902079967 | Islam gained strength | within portions of the former Roman Empire | 87 | |
9902083865 | Confucianism combined with | Buddhism to create a cultural bridge between China and Korea | 88 | |
9902088553 | Japanese feudalism | saw the beginnings of a centralized Japan | 89 | |
9902097449 | The position of the Chinese scholar-gentry | weakened efforts to curb nomadic invasions | 90 | |
9902106638 | Buddhism became more popular among China's neighbors than in China itself because | Buddhism didn't originate in China | 91 | |
9902113791 | The Yuan Dynasty was brought down by all of the following except | foreign resistance to Mongol Peace | 92 | |
9902118929 | Under Mongol rule in China | Chinese regional rulers were allowed to govern | 93 | |
9902123738 | The influence of nomadic peoples in Eurasia | created a reciprocal relationship between the nomads and settled peoples. | 94 | |
9902127447 | Aztec and Inca religions | reflected the agrarian nature of their respective societies | 95 | |
9902132155 | The natives of North America | used architectural designs similar to those of Mesoamerica | 96 | |
9902138689 | Which of the American peoples was closer to the Persians in their adminstrative style? | The Incas | 97 | |
9902427468 | In contrast to Japanese feudalism, W European feudalism | created a reciprocal relationship between lord and vassal | 98 | |
9902431506 | Early medieval Europe's strongest state was | the Holy Roman Empire | 99 | |
9902438440 | During the Middle Ages, the concept of limited gov was seen most clearly in | England | 100 | |
9902441150 | Medieval Europe | developed new banking institutions from multicultural contacts | 101 | |
9974616899 | Merovingian Dynasty | 400s rule of France | 102 | |
9974622586 | Carolingian Dynasty | -700s rule of France -Battle of Tours | 103 |
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