AP World History Chapter 10 Vocab Flashcards

11546431619	Jesus Sutras	The product of Nestorian Christians living in China, these sutras articulate the Christian message using Buddhist and Daoist concepts.	0
11546435793	Nubian Christianity	Emerging in the fifth and sixth centuries in the several kingdoms of Nubia to the south of Egypt, this Christian church thrived for six hundred years but had largely disappeared by 1500 C.E. by which time most of the region's population practiced Islam.	1
11546439614	Ethiopian Christianity	retained basic Christian theology and rituals, reflected the interests of its African devotees. Believed a large host of evil spirits populate the world	2
11546443398	Byzantine Christianity	A common name for the Christian worshpers who lived near Byzantium, later to be renamed Constantinople by the Emperor Constantine, who moved the capital of the Roman Empire to this city in 330 BCE.	3
11546446022	Justinian	Byzantine emperor in the 6th century A.D. who reconquered much of the territory previously ruler by Rome, initiated an ambitious building program , including Hagia Sofia, as well as a new legal code	4
11546446023	Caesaropapism	A political-religious system in which the secular ruler is also head of the religious establishment, as in the Byzantine Empire.	5
11546452724	Eastern Orthodox Christianity	Branch of Christianity that developed in the eastern part of the Roman Empire and gradually separated, mostly on matters of practice, from the branch of Christianity dominant in Western Europe; noted for the subordination of the Church to political authorities, a married clergy, the use of leavened bread in the Eucharist, and insistence on church councils as the ultimate authority in Christian belief and practice.	6
11546452725	Icons	religious images used by eastern christians to aid their devotions	7
11546455796	Kievan Rus	A monarchy established in present day Russia in the 6th and 7th centuries. It was ruled through loosely organized alliances with regional aristocrats from. The Scandinavians coined the term "Russia". It was greatly influenced by Byzantine	8
11546461920	Prince Vladimir of Kiev	Grand prince of Kiev (r. 978-1015 C.E.) whose conversion to Orthodox Christianity led to the incorporation of Russia into the sphere of Eastern Orthodoxy.	9
11546464776	Charlemagne	800 AD crowned by the Pope as the head of the Holy Roman Empire, which extended from northern Spain to western Germany and northern Italy. His palace was at Aachen in central Europe	10
11546468006	Holy Roman Empire	An empire established in Europe in the 10th century A.D., originally consisting mainly of lands in what is now Germany and Italy	11
11546471067	Roman Catholic Church	the Christian Church based in the Vatican and presided over by a pope and an episcopal hierarchy	12
11546474372	Western Christendom	Western European branch of Christianity that gradually defined itself as separate from Eastern Orthodoxy, with a major break in 1054 C.E. that has still not been healed.	13
11546474373	Cecilia Penifader	An illiterate peasant woman (1297-1344) from the English village of Brigstock, whose life provides a window into the conditions of ordinary rural people even if her life was more independent and prosperous than most.	14
11546481783	Crusades	A series of holy wars from 1096-1270 AD undertaken by European Christians to free the Holy Land from Muslim rule.	15