Chapter 12 words to know Flashcards
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41509238 | silk roads | a system of ancient caravan routes across Central Asia, along which traders carried silk and other trade goods. | 0 | |
41509239 | monsoons | seasonal wind patterns that cause wet and dry seasons | 1 | |
41509240 | nestorians | A Christian sect found in Asia; tended to support Islamic invasions of this area in preference to Byzantine rule; cut off from Europe by Muslim invasions | 2 | |
41509241 | Epidemic Diseases | devastated communities b/c they had no immunities and no medicines, smallpox, measles, and bubonic plague | 3 | |
41509242 | Bubonic plague | Also called the Black Death was a deadly disease that spread through Europe and killed one out of every three people | 4 | |
41509243 | council of Nicaea | denounced Arianism, a major defining moment for Christianity; much of the Nicene Creed was written during the council. | 5 | |
41509244 | Edict of milan | issued by Constantine in 313, ended the "great persecution" and legalized Christianity in the Roman Empire | 6 | |
41509245 | nestorius | Syrian who was a Christian bishop and Patriarch of Constantinople in the early fifth century | 7 | |
41509246 | mani | Of persian origian, founded religion on 20th of March, Zoroastrianism and Christianity: extreme dualism: light/dark, good/evil | 8 | |
41509247 | theodosius | He 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 empire | 9 | |
41509248 | St. Augustine | early christian leader who writes the book City of God that instructs how Christians are to be | 10 | |
41509249 | constantine | Emperor of Rome who adopted the Christian faith and stopped the persecution of Christians (280-337) | 11 | |
41509250 | attila the hun | 405-453, 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 Sea | 12 | |
41509251 | alaric | king of the Visigoths who captured Rome in 410 (370-410) | 13 | |
41509252 | Gregory the Wonderworker | a tireless missionary with a reputation for performing miracles, who popularized Christianity in central Anatolia during the mid third century C.E. | 14 |