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| 5405914403 | Constantine | Emperor of Rome who adopted the Christian faith and stopped the persecution of Christians (280-337) |  | 0 |
| 5405914404 | Justinian | Byzantine emperor in the 6th century A.D. who reconquered much of the territory previously ruler by Rome, initiated an ambitious building program , including Hagia Sofia, as well as a new legal code |  | 1 |
| 5405914410 | Constantinople | Previously known as Byzantium, Constantine changed the name of the city and moved the capitol of the Roman Empire here from Rome. |  | 2 |
| 5405914411 | Caesaropapism | Religious and political power concentrated in the hands of the emperor |  | 3 |
| 5405914412 | Hagia Sophia | Most famous example of Byzantine architecture, it was built under Justinian I and is considered one of the most perfect buildings in the world. |  | 4 |
| 5405914414 | Iconoclasm | A religious controvery of the 8th century; Byzantine emperor attempted, but failed, to surpress icon veneration |  | 5 |
| 5405914415 | Crusades | A series of military expeditions in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries by Westrn European Christians to reclain control of the Holy Lands from the Muslims |  | 6 |
| 5405914417 | Ottomans | Turks who had come to Anatolia and conquered Constantinople and changed the name to Istanbul. They converted to Islam |  | 7 |
| 5405914420 | Muhammad | the Arab prophet who founded Islam (570-632) |  | 8 |
| 5405914421 | Ali | the fourth caliph of Islam who is considered to be the first caliph by Shiites |  | 9 |
| 5405914422 | Allah | Muslim name for the one and only God |  | 10 |
| 5405914423 | Dar al-Islam | an Arabic term that means the "house of Islam" and that refers to lands under Islamic rule. |  | 11 |
| 5405914424 | Umma | the community of all Muslims |  | 12 |
| 5405914425 | Five Pillars of Islam | true Muslims were expected to follow (principle of Salvation): belief in Allah, pray 5 times a day, giving of alms, fasting during Ramadan, pilgrimage to Mecca once in a lifetime |  | 13 |
| 5405914426 | Sharia | body of Islamic law that includes interpretation of the Quran and applies Islamic principles to everyday life |  | 14 |
| 5405914427 | Caliph | a supreme political and religious leader in a Muslim government |  | 15 |
| 5405914428 | Umayyad | Arabic dynasty (661-750), with its capital at Damascus, that was marked by a tremendous period of expansion to Spain in the west and India in the east. | 16 | |
| 5405914429 | Shia | The branch of Islam whose members acknowledge Ali and his descendants as the rightful successors of Muhammad | 17 | |
| 5405914430 | Abbasid | Dynasty that overthrew the Umayyad to rule the Muslim caliphate from 750 to 1258; for 150 years they maintained the unity of the caliphate and Islamic civilization and culture flourished | 18 | |
| 5405914433 | Sufis | a mystical Muslim group that believed they could draw closer to God through prayer, fasting, and a simple life | 19 | |
| 5405914434 | Hajj | the fifth pillar of Islam is a pilgrimage to Mecca during the month of Dhu al-Qadah | 20 | |
| 5405914435 | Madrasas | Islamic schools | 21 | |
| 5405914436 | Sui Dynasty | The short dynasty between the Han and the Tang; built the Grand Canal, strengthened the government, and introduced Buddhism to China | 22 | |
| 5405914437 | Grand Canal | The 1,100-mile (1,700-kilometer) waterway linking the Yellow and the Yangzi Rivers. It was begun in the Han period and completed during the Sui Empire. | 23 | |
| 5405914438 | Tang Dynasty | Considered the golden age of Chinese civilization and ruled for nearly 300 years; China grew under the dynasty to include much of eastern Asia, as well as large parts of Central Asia | 24 | |
| 5405914439 | Equal-field system | Agricultural reform favoring the peasants under the Tang dynasty in China, inheritance system where 1/5 of the land when to the peasant's descendants and the rest went to the government. | 25 | |
| 5405914440 | Bureaucracy of Merit | Bureaucracy chosen by civil service examinations based on Confucian education - no longer decided by family lineage | 26 | |
| 5405914443 | Song Dynasty | (960 - 1279 AD); this dynasty was started by Tai Zu; by 1000, a million people were living there; started feet binding; had a magnetic compass; had a navy; traded with India and Persia (brought pepper and cotton); first to have paper money, explosive gun powder; *landscape black and white paintings | 27 | |
| 5405914451 | Shogun | a hereditary military dictator of Japan | 28 | |
| 5405914452 | Samurai | a Japanese warrior who was a member of the feudal military aristocracy | 29 | |
| 5405914453 | Bushido | The strict code of behavior followed by samurai warriors in Japan | 30 | |
| 5405914456 | Sultanate of Delhi | Unstable kingdom in North India founded by the Ghaznavids. This invasion was more systematic than Mahmud's and after it succedded, the capital was established at Delhi. Raided south India. Established Islam in India. | 31 | |
| 5405914460 | Clovis | king of the Franks who unified Gaul and established his capital at Paris and founded the Frankish monarchy | 32 | |
| 5405914461 | Charles Martel | Carolingian monarch of Franks; responsible for defeating Muslims in battle of Tours in 732; ended Muslim threat to western Europe. | 33 | |
| 5405914462 | Charlemagne | Frankish king who conquered most of Europe and was crowned Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Leo III in the year 800 | 34 | |
| 5405914464 | Franks | Group of Germanic people who rose to prominence under the leadership of King Clovis. They converted to Christianity | 35 | |
| 5405914466 | Magyars | Muslims who attacked Europe and converted to Christianity and established Hungary | 36 | |
| 5405914467 | Vikings | Seafaring Scandinavian people who raided the coasts of northern and western from the eighth through the tenth century. | 37 | |
| 5405914468 | Holy Roman Empire | Loose federation of mostly German states and principalities, headed by an emperor who had little control over the hundreds of princes who elected him. It lasted from 962 to 1806. | 38 | |
| 5405914469 | Monasticism | A way of life in which men and women withdraw from the rest of the world in order to devote themselves to their faith | 39 |
