AP World History Chapter 16 Flashcards

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