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New Rome
referring to Constantinople
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Visigoths, Vandals
Germanic tribes: Visigoths- the Battle of Adrianople, Vandals- gained control of NW Africa and much of the Mediterranean.
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Huns
Attila(the scourge of God), invaded Italy
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476
the fall of Western Roma Empire
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Theodoric
King of Ostrogoths, he governed with the full acceptance of the Roman people, Constantinople, and Christian church.
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Byzantine Empire
Eastern Roman Empire, capital: Constantinople(Byzantium)
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Justinian
- The Emperor of Byzantine Empire of its peak.
- The Corpus Juris Civils- Law
- Reconquested in the West from German tribes
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Hagia Sophia
super awesome, Church of the Holy Wisdom
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Corpus Juris Civilis
Body of civil law, the foundation for most subsequent European law; made by Justinian
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Cyril and Methodius
brothers, St. Constantines; converted people to Roman Catholicism.
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Heraclius
Emperor of BE; spent his entire reign resisting Persian and Islamic invations; he defeated the Persians but failed to defend against the Islamic.
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Leo III
King of the Isaurian Dynasty, took Egypt and N Africa back from the BE.
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Battle of Manzikert
the B.E. lost poorly against the Islams.
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Seljuk Turks
after Manzikert, overrun Asia minor of B.E.
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Ottoman Turk, 1453
captured Constantinople
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Islam
New religion appearing in Arabia in the 6th century in response to the work of the prophet Muhammad
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Muhammad
Prophet of Islam, founder.
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Muslim
=submission. believers of Muhmmad's religion
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Ka'ba
the birthplace of Muhammad and Arabia's holiest shrines
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622: Hegira
Muslims and Mohammed moved from Mecca to Medina because of the Arabians.
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ulema
scholarly elite leading Islam, sort of a pastor
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Caliphate
Office of the leader of the Muslim community
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Shi'a
The "party" of Ali. They believed Ali and his descendants were Muhammad’s only rightful successors.
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Sunnis
The Followers of the Sunna, “tradition:” They emphasized loyalty to the fundamental principles of Islam
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jihad
Muslim empire expanded vastly.
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