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Capitol of Eastern Roman Empire |
Constantinople |
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Year that Western Empire ended |
476 |
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What greek polis used to be where Constantinople is? |
Byzantium
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Influential person for Christianity |
Augustine |
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What three books did Augustine write? |
The City of God; The Confessions; The Literal Interpretation of Genesis" |
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Why did God allow the city to be taken by barbarians |
Because Rome is not the city of God, it is the city of man |
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Augustine believed that history was _____ |
linear |
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Augustine's mother's nightmares were about |
Him getting executed |
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Who controlled Italy in the early 500s? |
The Goths |
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Boethius wrote |
Consolation of Philosophy |
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What did Boethius believe? |
that there is no free will. God knows your path |
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Who were the king and queen of Constantinople? |
Justinian and Theodora |
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What did Justinian and Theodora do to the Chinese, and how. |
they monopolized their silk trade by sending spies to smuggle out the silk worms |
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What means Holy Wisdom |
"Hagia Sophia" |
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What was the biggest church in the early 500s |
Hagia Sophia |
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What was the language of eastern empire |
Greek |
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What church is in Ravenna |
the San Vitale |
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What mosaic is in the San Vitale |
Justinian and Theodora on opposite sides of the room looking at each other |
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Name of the isolated monestary on Mt. Sinai, Egypt |
Saint Catherine's |
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What were preserved at Saint Catherine's |
Religious icons |
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What kind of church was St. Catherine's |
Byzantine church (Eastern Orthodox church) |
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What year did Constantinople end |
1453 |
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What is the black cube building in Mecca |
Ka'bah |
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What is within the Ka'bah |
The Kab'ah stone |
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What did the voice in the desert tell Muhammad to do? |
Recite |
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Who was the voice that was talking to Muhammad |
Gabriel |
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What is the religious book of Islam |
The Qur'an |
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Where did Muhammad find his first successful followers |
Medina |
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What is a Mosque |
a prayer hall |
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What are the five pillars of Islam? |
Saying the creed, pray five times a day, Alms-give to the poor, fasting during Ramadan, and Pilgrimage to Mecca- Hajj |
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What calendar is the Ramadan based from?
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The lunar calendar |
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What are chapters called in the Qu'ran? |
Suras |
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How many Suras are in the Qu'ran |
114 |
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How are the Suras organized in the Qu'ran? |
Longest to shortest |
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What is the pilgrimage to Mecca called? |
Hajj |
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Where were the peaceful verses in the Qu'ran set? The harsh verses? |
Mecca. Medina |
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What is the name of the verses in the Qu'ran where Muhammad is speaking for himself? |
Hadith |
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What two things edited the Hadith |
Bukari and Muslim |
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What does Islam mean |
submission |
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What is Allah's law that states that any muslim that leaves must be killed? |
Shariah |
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What word means struggle |
Jihad |
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What type of Islam dominates by 85% |
Sunni |
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What type of Islam is 15% |
Shia or Shiite |
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Who are the pacifist Muslims |
Sufi |
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What religious islamic location is in Jerusalem |
The Dome of the Rock |
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What is special about the sacred rock in Jerusalem? |
Muhammad lands on it with a flying horse |
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What was the lion's court in Spain |
Alhambra |
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What woman told the Thousand and One Nights stroies |
Shahrazad |
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What two religious figures are in the Baptisteries of the Orthodox mosaics? |
John the Baptist and Neptune |
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When did the Dark Ages begin? |
476 (End of Western Empire |
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What was given to King Charlemagne from the Muslim king? |
An elephant |
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Where was Charlemagne's head quarters? |
Aachen |
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What is denier |
silver coins |
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To charge unreasonably high interest rates |
Usury |
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Who was King Charlemagne's personal tutor? |
Alcuin of York |
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What was Charlemagne's favorite book? Who was it written by? |
City of God. Augustine. |
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System of social organizations |
Feudalism |
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Who destroyed Charlemagne's cities on the rivers? |
Vikings |
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Where did Saint Benedict live? |
Monte Cassino |
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What was Benedict's rule book? |
Pray and Work |
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Who made the Gregorian chant |
Gregory the Great |
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What are the halls that extend on the side of the church called? |
Transept |
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What play explained how God looks at the earth and is unhappy? |
Everyman |
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What is a stylistic outlet for artists? |
Calligraphy |
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What art form arose from Roman ruins? |
Romanesque Art |
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What is the center hall of a church? |
Central nave |
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What contained holy relics |
Reliquary of Charlemagne |
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What is inside the Reliquary of Charlemagne? |
A piece of his skull |
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What was the center of civilization in the 1100s? |
Paris, France |
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What was a very popular church in Paris in 1100s? |
St. Denis |
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Who was the Abbot of the St. Denis church? |
Suger |
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What holds the exterior weight of a church? |
Flying Buttresses |
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What is the purpose of stain glass windows AND what is the common phrase for it? |
Made the stories universal to all languages. Bible of the poor. |
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What church in Paris was reserved for the elite? |
Saint Chapelle |
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What are the three tiers for guilds? |
Apprentice, Journeyman, and master |
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Who wrote the Canterbury tales? |
Geoffrey Chaucer |
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What did Moses Maimonides write? |
The Guide for the Perplexed |
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What did Saint Francis of Assisi write? |
The Canticle of Brothers Sun |
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Who said that if Aristotle and the Church contradict each other, they are both true? |
Thomas Aquinas |
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What year did the plague spread? |
1348 |
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What did the rats ride on to spread the plague? |
Ships that crossed through the middle east to get from Asia to Europe. |
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What are 4 reasons that people thought were the cause of the plague? |
God punishing us, misalignment of the planets, witches, Jews |
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Who wrote the Decameron? |
Giovanni Boccaccio |
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What was the Decameron about? |
10 people who spent the summer out in the country and they each told 10 stories. |
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What was the Great Schism? |
Catholic split apart |
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What Pope gave orders during the Great Schism? |
Pope Boniface VIII |
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What was the name of the time when the the Catholic Church split up? |
The Great Schism |
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Who revolted against the 1%? |
John Ball |
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Who wrote the Divine Comedy? |
Dante Alighieri |
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What was the Divine Comedy? |
A tour through heaven and hell |
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Who were the worst sinners in the Divine Comedy? |
Judas, Brutus, and Cassius |
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What is the first part of Alighieri's Divine Comedy? |
Dante's Inferno |
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Who guided Dante in hell? |
Virgil |
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Who made copies of Pluto's work? |
Francesco Petrarch |
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Who was the Archbishop of Canterbury? |
Thomas a Becket |
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Who drew the paintings that had open space on the outside of the triangle and a bunch of stuff inside the triangle? |
Giotto Di Bondone |
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Who made the Peaceful City |
Ambrogio Lorenzetti |
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What city in Italy connected Europe and Asia? |
Venice |
