AP World History Midterm Flashcards
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| 12031815930 | Iconclasm | The breaking of images; a religious controversy of the 8th centurty; Byzantine emperor attempted, but failed, to suppress icon veneration. | 0 | |
| 12031815931 | Theocracy | A government controlled by religious leaders | 1 | |
| 12031815932 | Patriarch | the male head of a family or tribe | 2 | |
| 12031815933 | Schism | a formal split within a religious organization; any division or separation of a group or organization into hostile factions | 3 | |
| 12031815934 | Hippodrome | Built by Justinian; A huge stadium; Held athletic events and games; Seated 60,000 people located in Constantinople. Site of Nike Revolt | 4 | |
| 12031815935 | Crusades | A series of holy wars from 1096-1270 AD undertaken by European Christians to free the Holy Land from Muslim rule. | 5 | |
| 12031815936 | Rus | Scandinavian traders who were some of Kiev's early leaders' also the word we get Russia from | 6 | |
| 12031815937 | Kievan Rus | first civilization in russia that was greatly influenced by the byzantine | 7 | |
| 12031815938 | Boyars | Russian nobles | 8 | |
| 12031815939 | Bedouins | Nomadic pastoralists of the Arabian peninsula; culture based on camel and goat nomadism; early converts to Islam. | 9 | |
| 12031815940 | Dar al-Islam | religious conceptualization of the world as belonging either to Muslim or non-Muslim territory, exists within Islam | 10 | |
| 12031815941 | Umayyad Dynasty | the dynasty caliphs whose capital was Damascus, one of the largest empires ever | 11 | |
| 12031815942 | Baghdad | Capital of Abbasid dynasty located in Iraq near ancient Persian capital of Ctesiphon | 12 | |
| 12031815943 | Viziers | a high official in some Muslim countries, especially in Turkey under Ottoman rule. | 13 | |
| 12031815944 | Battle of tours | (732 CE) European victory over Muslims. It halted Muslim movement into Western Europe. | 14 |