Chapter 10 ap world history Flashcards

11141946928	Gudrid and Thorfinn Karlsefni	A couple originally from Iceland who settled in about 1000 in Greenland and then Canada and later returned to Iceland. Had a brief settlement in N. America but ran into problems with the Indians	0
11141971741	Byzantine Empire	Eastern half of the Roman Empire that survived the fall of the Western half. Constantine move capital.	1
11141988575	patriarch	Highest church official in Eastern Roman Church	2
11141994395	pope	Head of the Roman Catholic Church in the west	3
11142004172	Justinian Corpus of civil law	He simplified Western Roman law into the Justinian code. Basis for western legal system	4
11142019563	plague	(n.) an easily spread disease causing a large number of deaths; a widespread evil; struck the Byzantine empire during Justianś reign and medieval Europe	5
11142030307	iconoclasts	people who opposed the use of icons (pictures) in worship of Jesus and Mary (violated 2nd commandment). Part of a greater argument with the western Roman church that led to the Great Schism	6
11142042620	Frankish Kingdom	The homeland of the Franks, including much of modern-day France, Germany, and the land in between.	7
11142047155	Wergeld	man payment-Compensatory payment for death or injury set in many barbarian law codes. Put a value on human life (pregnant women had higher value)-meant to prevent endless killing	8
11142087681	war-band	The most important social unit among Germanic-speaking peoples. In times of war, warriors formed bands behind a leader, who gave them horses, armor, a place to live, and a share of plunder.	9
11142095031	Merovingian Dynasty	a Frankish dynasty founded by Clovis I that reigned in Gaul and Germany from about 500 to 750-clovis converted to Christianity	10
11142106901	Carolingian Dynasty	Important aristocratic family that overthrew the Merovingian rulers-most powerful ruler was Charlemagne	11
11142129268	Vikings	one of a seafaring Scandinavian people who raided the coasts of northern and western Europe from the eighth through the tenth century.	12
11142136342	Longboat	Mighty warship that could weigh up to 20 tons yet be used in 3 feet of water-sail or oars-fastest in world at the time	13
11142162798	Danelaw	Northeastern region of England ruled by the Vikings (Scandinavians) between 866-954	14
11142179754	The Vineland Sagas	Erik the Red´s sagas-in Old Norse-recounts events around 1000	15
11142195263	skaelings	Viking name for Native Americans in Canada and main where the Scandinavians had settlements	16
11142213620	Bjarni Herjolfsson	The first European, according to The Vinland Sagas, to sail to the Americas, most likely sometime in the 990s.	17
11142215251	Rus	Origin of the word Russia, thought to refer to Vikings who settled the region in the ninth century C.E.	18
11142233985	Slavs	A people from the forests north of the Black Sea, ancestors of many peoples in Eastern Europe today.	19
11142240079	principality of Kiev	A new state that began as a trading post on the Dnieper River and evolved into a principality around 900.	20