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14 Cards in this Set
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Constantine
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Roman Emperor who accepted, legalized, and made Christianity the state religion. He also divided the Roman Empire and created a second capital, Constantinople.
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Muhammad
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Believed by Muslims to be the last great prophet. He, after experiencing revelations by Allah, organized the Koran as a book of these teachings and revelations. Muhammad's followers would become the new religion of Islam
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Clovis
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The King of the Franks, who, in 496, converted to Christianity
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Charlemagne
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Greatest king of the Franks, who by offering protection to the pope, won papal support. He was crowned Emperor of the West by the pope and built up an empire.
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Benedict
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Established a strict set of rules for monastic life
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Huns
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One of the most famous barbarian groups who cut through central Europe and France
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Sunni
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The majority of Muslims, supported the Umayyad family
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Shiite
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The minority of Muslims, supported Ali and claim that all true leaders of Islam must descend from Muhammad
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Petrine Supremacy
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The doctrine which gave spiritual authority to the papacy, as successors of St. Peter
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Donation of Constantine
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Church's claim to temporal power in Rome; that Constantine put the bishop of Rome (pope) in charge of the government of the city. Accepted as a historical fact until proven a forgery in the fifteenth century
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Battle of Tours
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Where the Christian and Frankish army defeated and turned back the Arab invasion
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Magyars
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The Hungarians. They terrified parts of Europe until they settled on the middle of the Danube around 900
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Norse/Vikings
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Germanic tribe that explored and reach distant locations, like Kiev in Russia, Iceland, and even America. They assaulted coasts but settled only in considerable numbers in Danelaw, England and Normandy, France.
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Great Schism
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The Greek patriarchs of Constantinope refusal to recognize the claims of the bishop of Rome and the pope's refusal to acknowledge the political pretensions of the Byzantine Empire, resulted in the Great Schism of East and West. It divided the Christian world into the Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox Churches
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