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94 Cards in this Set
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Leo the Isaurian |
Byzantine emperor; iconoclastic |
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Justinian |
Byzantine emperor; retakes west; rebuilds Hyocophia; redoes legal system (Justinian Code) |
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Corpus Juris Civilis |
Justinian Code |
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Khadija |
Mohammad's wife; 1st convert to Islam |
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Medina |
Mohammad flees to the city of... |
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Umayyads |
Start empire |
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Christendom |
Name for Europe in Middle Ages |
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Pepin the Short |
1st of Carolingian kings |
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Serfs |
One step above slaves |
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Charlemagne |
Pepin the Short's son; 768-814; crowned emperor on December 25th, 800 |
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Alcuin |
Charlemagne's head scholar |
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Anglo-Saxons |
Barbarians that land in England |
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Cenobitic |
Monks that live in groups |
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Pope Gregory the Great |
Shapes Medieval Papacy |
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Synod of Whitby |
664; Meeting that decides on Catholicism |
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St. Bede |
"Venerable Bede"; One of the best scholars to come out of Renaissance; comes up with BC/AD |
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Iconoclasm |
Image smashers |
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Theodora |
Justinian's wife; more worldly than him |
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Lombards |
Barbarian tribe that Pope Gregory deals with |
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St. Cyril |
Comes up with Russian alphabet |
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Kaaba |
Stone, "1st stone that Adam stepped on" |
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Hadith |
Traditions and stories about Mohammad |
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Ali |
Mohammad's son-in-law |
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Dhimmis |
Jewish-Christians |
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Caliph |
Political/Religious leader |
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Carolignians |
Line of kings that starts with Pepin the Short |
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The Donation of Constantine |
The west is now owned by the church (Leo cured him, repayment) |
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Demesne |
Fief: Piece of land given to you in return for service |
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Einhard |
Charlamagne's monk |
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Merovingian Dynasty |
"Do Nothing Kings" |
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St. Benedict of Nursia |
"Byzantine Rule": Constitution for monks |
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Isidore of Seville |
Writes Encyclopedia |
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Scriptorium |
Where they copied books over |
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Northumbrian Renaissance |
"Rebirth of Learning" after Synod of Whitby; 670-740 |
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Hagia Sophia |
Cathedral that Justinian builds |
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Nika riots |
536; Justinian was going to join but his wife (Theodora) stopped him |
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Heraclius |
Byzantine emperor; reconquers east; runs into muslims |
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Muhammad |
last prophet; starts Islam; born in Mecca |
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Jihad |
Religous war (Internal struggle) |
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Quran |
Muslim Bible ("Direct Word of God") |
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Charles Martel |
Fights the Moors at the Battle of Tours in 732 |
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Seljuk Turks |
Defeats Byzantines at Battle of Manzikent: 701 |
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St. Boniface |
Converts Germans to Christianity; Patron Saint of Europe |
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Manorialism |
Economic system (manors, peasants, etc...) |
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Missi dominici |
"Messengers of the Lord" |
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Eremitic |
Monks that live alone |
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Oblation |
the act of making a religious offering; specifically capitalized
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St. Augustine of Canterbury |
Converts England to Roman Catholicism |
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Gregory of Tours |
History of the Franks |
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Shi'ism |
Islam as taught by the Shia
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Abbasids |
Bagdad |
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Hijra |
the migration or journey of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and his followers from Mecca to Yathrib, later renamed by him to Medina, in the year 622 CE
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Pax Romana |
Roman Peace 28 BC-180 AD |
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Arians |
Arianism: heresy |
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Council of Nicea |
Council of Christian bishops 325 AD |
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St. Ambrose |
interpreted the Christian faith |
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mysticism |
biblical, liturgical, spiritual, and contemplative dimensions of early and medieval history |
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Vulgate Bible |
St. Jerome translated the Bible |
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Tactitus |
Roman historian; writes Germania and Annales |
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Comitatus |
Posse (Feudalism comes out of) |
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Trial by order |
Duel or test |
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Visigoths |
Barbarian tribe |
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Atilla |
Rule of huns; 434-453 |
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Pope Leo I |
deals with Atilla |
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Theodoric |
becomes king |
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Boethius |
Writes Consolation of Philosophy; executed in 526 |
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Gregory of Tours |
History of the Franks |
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St. Augustine of Hippo |
City of God and Confessions |
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Diocletian |
Great persecution; Middle Ages |
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Theodosius |
Fully Christian emperor |
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catholic |
universal |
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St. Jerome |
translated vulgate Bible (Greek to Latin) |
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Constantine |
Roman emperor from 306-337 AD |
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heresy |
wrong choice |
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City of God |
Saint Augustine wrote |
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wergild |
"man price" |
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compurgation |
jury trial |
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Valens |
Roman emperor fights visigoths in 378 and loses |
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Alaric |
King of visigoths |
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Huns |
not good, nomadic group; 1st century to 7th century |
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Odovacar |
Ostrogoth general; got rid of 12 year old emperor |
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Ostrogoths |
eastern branch of Goths; Germanic people |
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Trivium |
3 of the 7 liberal arts |
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Clotilda |
Clovis's wife; converts him to Catholicism |
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Cassiodorus |
secretary for Theodoric |
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Clovis |
King of Franks; converts to catholicism |
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Quarivium |
4 of the 7 liberal arts |
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Pope Gregory I |
Creates the medieval papacy |
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Stilicho |
German/Roman general |
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Theodoric |
Becomes king; works with Boethius |
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St. Benedict |
Benedictine Rule (Constitution for monks) |
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Cenobitic |
groups of monks that live together |
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Eremetic
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groups of monks that live alone |
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Adrianople |
378 AD Fight Visigoths invaded Rome |
