7827195864 | cesaropapism | a policy where the emperor ruled as a secular lord& had an active, prominent role in ecclesiatical affairs | 0 | |
7827195865 | justinian | emperor; created Justinian's Code; fortified city; built Hagia Sophia born a peasant | 1 | |
7827195866 | theodora | justinians wife , striptease artist before they met | 2 | |
7827195867 | Hagia Sophia | large church constructed in Constantinople during the reign of Justinian; turned into a mosque by ottoman conquers | 3 | |
7827195868 | Justinians code | An organized collection and explanation of roman laws for use by the byzantine empire | 4 | |
7827195869 | greek fire | Flammable liquid used as a weapon by the Byzantine navy; burned even when in the water- hard to put out | 5 | |
7827195870 | theme system | Byzantine system of splitting the empire into smaller military-run sections | 6 | |
7827195871 | franks | germanic kingdom, converted to christianity, persuaded muslim conquers that europe wasnt worth their time | 7 | |
7827195872 | Carolingian Dynasty | a Frankish dynasty founded by Charlemagne's father that ruled from 751 to 987 | 8 | |
7827195873 | Charles Martel | founded caroligian dynasty , high up in military | 9 | |
7827195874 | Battle of Tours | A battle in which Christians stopped the Muslim advance into Western Europe | 10 | |
7827195875 | Charlemagne | king who united Western Europe, made emperor by pope and valued education , grandson of charles martel | 11 | |
7827195876 | saxon campaign | 32 year campaign to impose charlemagens' rule on the saxtons in northern germany | 12 | |
7827195877 | aachen | capital of caroligian dynasty | 13 | |
7827195878 | missi dominici | imperial officials who traveled to all the jurisdictions & reviewed accounts of local authorities | 14 | |
7827195879 | what did charlemagne do to promote european integration? | accepted everyone, kind to everyone | 15 | |
7827195880 | Pope Leo III | Crowned Charlemagne Holy Roman Emperor on Christmas Day, 800 | 16 | |
7827195881 | christmas day, 800 | the day charlemagne was named emperor by pope leo the 3rd | 17 | |
7827195882 | Louis the Pious | Charlemagne's son; lost most of the power/land that Charlemagne had acquired | 18 | |
7827195883 | Magyars | an ethnic group centered in present-day Hungary | 19 | |
7827195884 | Norse Vikings | most feared invaders from scandinavia | 20 | |
7827195885 | Bezant | Byzantine gold coin | 21 | |
7827195886 | heavy plow | allowed the heavy, moist soil to be turned in the north | 22 | |
7827195887 | why did women wear veils around their hair? | modesty | 23 | |
7827195888 | Feudalism | hierarchy of lords & vassals | 24 | |
7827195889 | Lord | a person who controlled land and could therefore grant estates to vassals | 25 | |
7827195890 | Vassal | under the lords | 26 | |
7827195891 | peasant | provided labor for lords & vassals | 27 | |
7827195892 | Pope Gregory I | mobilized local resources & orgainized the defense of rome saving the church & rome | 28 | |
7827195893 | confession | in the christian faith, you go confess your sins to the preist | 29 | |
7827195894 | penance | required individuals to go to the confession | 30 | |
7827195895 | Patriarch | powerful officials of the church | 31 | |
7827195896 | iconoclasm | The deliberate destruction of religious icons and symbols | 32 | |
7827195897 | Monasticism | The practice of living the life of a monk | 33 | |
7827195898 | St. Basil | Monk who founded one of the earliest monasteries in the East. | 34 | |
7827195899 | St. Benedict | a man who developed the monastic way of life in western Europe | 35 | |
7827195900 | Ascetic lifestyle | fully devoted to religion | 36 | |
7827195901 | St. Scholastica | 482-543 sister to St. Benedict adapted his Rules into guidance for women in convents | 37 | |
7827195902 | Sts. Cyril and Methodius | missionaries in Bulgaria & Moravia | 38 | |
7827195903 | Cyrillic alphabet | an alphabet drived from the Greek alphabet and used for writing Slavic languages | 39 | |
7827195904 | Vladimir I | Russian ruler who adopted Christianity as the religion for his people | 40 | |
7827195905 | Great Schism | the official split between the Roman Catholic and Byzantine churches that occurred in 1054 | 41 |
AP World History Chapter 16 Flashcards
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