IDENTIFICATIONS
Explain the significance of the following: |
1. Iconoclasts
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2. alchemy
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3. faylasufs
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4. Arabian Nights
| 5. sufis
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6. ulama
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7. mayor of the palace
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8. Koran
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9. Quraish (tribe)
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10. caliph
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11. Seljuk Turks
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12. Bedouins
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13. Book of Kells
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14. Shiites
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15. Beowulf
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16. Kabah
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17. Greek Fire
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18. Hagia Sophia
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CHRONOLOGY
Match the development in column I with the approximate date in column II. Click the Key for the proper answer. (All dates are A.C.E.)
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I
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II
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1. Separation of Greek and Roman branches of the Church
| | A. 644 |
2. The Hijrah (Hegira) | | B. 590 |
3. Coronation of Charlemagne as Emperor | | C. 1204 |
4. Beginning of the Umayyad caliphate | | D. 622 |
5. Beginning of Iconoclastic movement | | E. 751 |
6. Death of Muhammad | | F. 1045 |
7. Beginning of Abbasid caliphate | | G. 1071 |
8. Destruction of Baghdad by Mongols
| | H. 732 |
9. Accession to papacy of St. Gregory the Great | | I. 632 |
10. Battle of Tours | | J. 1258 |
11. Fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks | | K. 800 |
12. Battle of Manzikert | | L. 1453 |
13. Crusaders' capture of Constantinople | | M. 717 |
14. Accession of Pepin the Short | | N. 750 |
IDENTIFICATION
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1. A Persian poet who wrote the Rubaiyat.
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2. An emperor whose successful defense of Constantinople against the Arabs ranks as one of the most significant battles in European history.
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3. An emperor who paved the way for his state's downfall by appealing to the West for help against the Turks.
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4. A Russian ruler who, by accepting baptism by a Byzantine missionary, provided a strong bastion for Eastern Orthodox Christianity.
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5. An Abbasid caliph of regal splendor who sent an elephant as a gift to Charlemagne.
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6. An Islamic philosopher known as "the Commentator" by Western medieval writers, whom he greatly influenced by his interpretation of Aristotle.
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7. The greatest clinical physician of the medieval world, who first discovered the real nature of smallpox.
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8. The Prophet's son-in-law, who posthumously became identified with a militant Muslim minority.
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9. Discoverer of the contagious nature of tuberculosis, whose chief work, the Canon, was regarded as a medical authority until the seventeenth century.
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10. An eighth-century Byzantine emperor who provoked a famous religious controversy.
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11. A brutal Frankish chieftain who founded the Merovingian dynasty.
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12. A Church father who wrote a life of St. Benedict and worked to strengthen papal authority.
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13. A military figure nicknamed "the Hammer" and reputed to be the second founder of the Frankish state.
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14. An Anglo-Saxon Benedictine who wrote a remarkable Latin History of the English Church.
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15. A princess whose writings testify to a high educational level among Byzantine women.
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