byzantine empire
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- becomes constantinople
- byzantine
- constantinople is located on what body of water
- bosporus
- the city
- consantinople
- constantinoples port
- golden horn
- main street
- mese/ middle way
- 1st building with dome on top of rectangle
- hagia sophia
- chariot races are held
- hippodrome
- 1st goal of justinian
- reconquer roman lands
- 2nd goal of justinian
- simplify/organize law
- 3rd goal of justinian
- launch a building program
- 4 parts of code of justinian
- code, digest, institutes and novella
- sends missionaries to china who steal silkworm and mulberry tree seeds
- justinian
- do not want icons
- iconoclasts
- excommunicated eachother
- leo the 3rd and gregory the 2nd
- ignites on fire no matter what
- greek fire
- wandering nomads
- bedouins
- spirits that were worshipped before muhammad
- jinns
- where muhammad was born
- mecca
- shrine with 1360 different religious objects
- kaaba
- allahs shrine
- black stone of mecca
- muhammads wife is
- khadija
- believe in one god
- haniff
- means surrendering to god
- islam
- name of trip to medina
- hegira flight
- means surrendering ones
- muslims
- holy book
- koran
- chapters of koran
- suras
- sucessor to prophet
- caliphs
- caliphates
- dynasty
- 1sr caliph
- abu-bakr-korah
- islam's conquerer
- omar
- accused of nepotuism (favortism)
- uthman
- had a civil war
- ali
- capitol city of the orthodox caliphate
- medina
- capitol of umayyad dynasty
- damascus
- become muslims
- berbers
- spanish muslims
- moors
- abbasid dynasty capitol
- baghdad
- the round city
- baghdad
- believe that the religious leader must be a descendant of muhammad
- shiites
- believe that anyone can be a religious leader if they are orthodox/ muslim
- sunnis
- guidelines for correct living
- five pillars of islam
- declare that there is no god but allah and muhammad is a prophet
- faith
- pray 5x daily, face mecca, purify hands and feet
- prayer
- call people to prayer
- muezzins
- give part of money to poor
- alms
- fast during the holy month of ramadan
- fasting
- go to mecca to see black stone
- pilgrimage
- white garment worn during pilgrimage
- ihram
- holy war
- jihad
- place of worship
- mosque
- islamic scholars
- mullahs
- hell for nonbelievers
- jahimen
- monotheistic people
- people of the book
- reasons for conquest
- jihad and need for fertile land
- battle that stopped european conquest
- battle of tours
- art has no
- people or animals
- metal to gold
- alchemy
- studies smallpox and measles
- rhazees
- 5 volume encyclopedia of all the medical knowledge
- avicenna
- height of stars and latitude
- astrolabe
- developed algebra
- al-khwarizm
- wrote love poems
- rubaiyat
- legends and folk tales
- arabian nights
- rock where muhammad went to heaven
- dome of the rock
- wailing wall
- jews
- golgotha/jesus's tomb
- christians
- plains
- steppes
- separate europe and asia
- ural mtns
- 1st history of russians
- primary chronicles
- 1st russian prince
- rurik
- capitol of russia
- kiev
- region with short growing season
- taiga
- nobles
- boyars
- 1st christian ruler in russia
- olga
- made christianity the official religion
- vladimir
- alphabet for slavic language
- cyril
- council of nobles
- duma
- town meeting
- veche
- new kind of ruler
- sultan
- seljuk turks take asia minor
- battle of manzikert
- army of captured christians
- janissaries
- last byzantine emperor
- constantine the eleventh
- christian's fight for the holy land
- crusades
- religion make
- money
- 5000 laws in effect
- code
- main legal opinions of judges
- digest
- how to use the code, like an index
- institutes
- the laws added after the code
- novella
- built city-walls/hagia sophia
- justinian