AP World History BZ Ch13 Flashcards

126534346	Balkan Peninsula	A large peninsula in southern Europe bounded by the Black, Aegean, and Adriatic seas.	0
126534347	Constantinople	The capital of the eastern Roman Empire and later of the Byzantine Empire	1
126534348	alexandria	City in Egypt founded by Alexander the Great, center of commerce and Hellenistic civilization	2
126534349	Mediterranean	A large sea between two continents, southern Europe and northern Africa	3
126534350	Black Sea	An Inland Sea between Europe and Asia; connected with Aegean Sea by Bosporus, the Sea of Marmara, the Dardanelles	4
126534351	Bosporus and Dardanelles	Two straights wanted by the Russians during the decline of the Ottoman empire.	5
126534352	Straits	narrow water passages	6
126534353	Anatolia	The peninsula between the Mediterranean and the Black Seas that is now occupied by most of Turkey; also called Asia Minor	7
126534354	Damascus	the chosen city by the umayyad Caliphs in Syria to be their capital. they ruled from ad 661 to ad 750	8
126534355	Bulgaria	Slavic kingdom established in northern portions of Balkan peninsula; constant source of pressure on Byzantine Empire; defeated by Emperor Basil II in 1014.	9
126534356	Danube River	The second-longest river of Europe. It flows from southern Germany east into the Black Sea.	10
126534357	Cyril and Methodius	Christian missionaries who tried to teach the Bible to Slavs in central and eastern Europe. and made an alphabet for them	11
126534358	Corpus iuris civilis	"Body of Civil Law," Justinian's codification of Roman law	12
126534359	Red Sea	a long arm of the Indian Ocean between northeast Africa and Arabia; linked to the Mediterranean at the north end by the Suez Canal	13