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The Byzantium Empire included which countries and were tied together by ____?
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This empire included Greece, Asia Minor, Syria, Palestine and Egypt, which were tied together by trade.
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Justinian (527-65)
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The emperor at Constantinople, Justinian (527-65), saw himself as the rightful heir of a rule handed down from as far back as Augustus Caesar, a rule he claimed was created by God. (middle ages)
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Justinian believed that as God's chosen emperor it was his duty to create one ____, one _____ and one _____.
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Justinian believed that as God's chosen emperor it was his duty to create one state, one church and one law.
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Who did Justinian want to rage war against?
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First the Vandals, then Ostrogoths (he defeated both)
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By the time of Justinian's death in 565, much of Constantinople's imperial wealth had been spent. Justinian's successor, _____, was unable to prevent a Germanic people called ______ from taking power in Italy.
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By the time of Justinian's death in 565, much of Constantinople's imperial wealth had been spent. Justinian's successor, Justin II, was unable to prevent a Germanic people called Lombards from taking power in Italy.
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In 531, four years after Justinian had come to power at Constantinople, Khosrau I, of the ________dynasty, took power in _____ -- at the close of decades of unrest and the communistic Mazdakite revolution.
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In 531, four years after Justinian had come to power at Constantinople, Khosrau I, of the Sassanid dynasty, took power in Persia -- at the close of decades of unrest and the communistic Mazdakite revolution.
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A man from Mecca named _____who was familiar with Christianity, Judaism and the monotheistic movement, claimed to have heard messages from God via the angel ______. (the 600s)
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A man from Mecca named Mohammad who was familiar with Christianity, Judaism and the monotheistic movement, claimed to have heard messages from God via the angel Gabriel.
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What did Mohammad claim?
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He claimed to foresee the end of the world, a day of judgment, when the dead would be awakened, when all would be judged according to their deeds and sent to either paradise or eternal flames.
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Military Victories played a major role in the establishment of religion. If a ruler was victorious, it was thought that the ruler had G-d on his side and thus had the right to win.
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Military Victories played a major role in the establishment of religion. If a ruler was victorious, it was thought that the ruler had G-d on his side and thus had the right to win.
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Arab politics had been _____
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Arab politics had been tribal. it had not been of a institutional democracy. Tribes were brotherhoods, and that is how Muhammad saw Islam, as a brotherhood, and brotherhoods, or tribes, were not supposed to need formal political mechanisms for maintaining authority.
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