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41509238silk roadsa system of ancient caravan routes across Central Asia, along which traders carried silk and other trade goods.0
41509239monsoonsseasonal wind patterns that cause wet and dry seasons1
41509240nestoriansA Christian sect found in Asia; tended to support Islamic invasions of this area in preference to Byzantine rule; cut off from Europe by Muslim invasions2
41509241Epidemic Diseasesdevastated communities b/c they had no immunities and no medicines, smallpox, measles, and bubonic plague3
41509242Bubonic plagueAlso called the Black Death was a deadly disease that spread through Europe and killed one out of every three people4
41509243council of Nicaeadenounced Arianism, a major defining moment for Christianity; much of the Nicene Creed was written during the council.5
41509244Edict of milanissued by Constantine in 313, ended the "great persecution" and legalized Christianity in the Roman Empire6
41509245nestoriusSyrian who was a Christian bishop and Patriarch of Constantinople in the early fifth century7
41509246maniOf persian origian, founded religion on 20th of March, Zoroastrianism and Christianity: extreme dualism: light/dark, good/evil8
41509247theodosiusHe divides the Roman Empire into two different empires (Roman & Byzantine). He also makes Christianity the only religion you could be; emperor who made Christianity the official religion of the Roman empire9
41509248St. Augustineearly christian leader who writes the book City of God that instructs how Christians are to be10
41509249constantineEmperor of Rome who adopted the Christian faith and stopped the persecution of Christians (280-337)11
41509250attila the hun405-453, was the Emperor of the Huns from 434 until his death in 453. He was leader of the Hunnic Empire which stretched from Germany to the Ural River and from the River Danube to the Baltic Sea12
41509251alaricking of the Visigoths who captured Rome in 410 (370-410)13
41509252Gregory the Wonderworkera tireless missionary with a reputation for performing miracles, who popularized Christianity in central Anatolia during the mid third century C.E.14

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