Review: Europe and Middle East 600 to 1450 CE

Review: Europe and Middle East 600 to 1450 CE

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Review: Europe and Middle East 600 to 1450 CE

Why were the following significant:
Magna Carta

Treaty of Verdun

Justinian's Code

The Koran (Quran)

People of the Book (244-5)
On the map below, please shade in the areas controlled by
The Abbasids (235) The ByzantinesThe Holy Roman Empire

The route followed by the First Crusade (271)



Why were the following people significant:
Justinian

Mohammad

Charles Martel

Charlemagne

Saladin (239-40)

Abu Bakr

Islam
1. What effect did Islamic expansion have on European civilization in the Middle Ages?

2. What contributed to the fall of the Abbasid empire? (235-7)

3. Describe the social hierarchy in early Islamic empires.

4. What were some characteristics of early Islamic art?

5. What caused the Sunni/Shi'a split in Islam? (225)

6. Compare treatment of women in the Islamic world and Western Europe during the Middle Ages. (243)

7. Who were the Mamluks? (236)

8. What are the Five Pillars? (232)

9. What is the umma? (231)

10. How is the Islamic position of caliph similar to the Byzantine position of patriarch? (232)

11. What is the meaning of Islam in Arabic? (231)

12. Which Muslim group controlled Jerusalem at the beginning of the Crusades? (239)

13. What role did cities play in Muslim life? (241)

14. On the Arabian Peninsula, where were most cities (such as Damascus and Baghdad) located?

15. Why did Arabic become the universal language of the early Muslim Empires?

16. Which parts of the world were under Muslim control during the Umayyad and Abbasid dynasties?(235)

17. The Crusades, just like trade, led to the exchange of ______.

The Byzantines
18. What was the primary religion of the Byzantines? Where did it diffuse? (263-4)

19. As their power faded, how did the Byzantine emperors maintain political power and unity? (264-6)

20. What writing system became associated with Orthodox Christianity? (266)

21. How were the Byzantines different from the Western Roman Empire?

22. When and why did the Orthodox and Catholic church split? (260)

23. In the Middle Ages, how did the government of the Byzantine Empire differ from the government of Western Europe? (264-5)

24. What was the relationship of the Byzantines to the Kievan Russians? (266-8)

Western Europe
25. How were the Vikings such successful raiders? (253)

26. What is monasticism? What religion practiced it in Western Europe? (254, 261-2)

27. Where did the following ethnic groups live in Europe:

Franks

Slavs

Anglo-Saxons

28. How are feudalism and manoralism different? (254)

29. What countries emerged from the collapse of the Holy Roman Empire? (260-1)

30. Why did many European nobles go on Crusade? (270-2)

31. What was investiture and how did it create conflict? (261)

32. Define vassal (256)

33. How did the manor represent a decentralized economic system?

34. Why were the Crusades fought? (270-2)

35. In the late Middle Ages, why did serfdom decline?