Western Civ Final

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SJU Western Civ 1 final

Created Jun 21, 2010
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	Side A	Side B
1	Basil II	Destroyed power in Byzantine Empire
2	Saints Cyril and Methodius	Introduced Cyrillic alphabet
3	Emperor Alexius	called for help w/ W. Turks
4	Pope Urban II	called for crusade
5	1st Crusade	capture of Jerusalem
6	Saladin	muslim leader responsible for uniting Egypt and syria
7	Richard the Lionheart	english king who led the 3rd crusade
8	4th Crusade	led to the Sack of Constantinople
9	Emperor Frederick II	Negotiates with Muslims for control over Jerusalem for 10 years
10	Egypt & Tunis	Objectives of 13th century crusades
11	Jihad	holy war
12	Knights	known for Chivalry
13	Blanche of Castille	ruled in absent of son King Louis IX (st. louis)
14	Vassal	In return for property or wealth offered Homage to their lords
15	Feudalism	system in which public powers of minting, justice and taxation and defense were in the hands...
16	King William the Conqueror	est power of monarchy over lords in England
17	King Henry I	created the office of Exchequer to maintain the treasury of the kingdom
18	King Henry II	expanded the use of juries in England
19	Thomas Becket	Opposed civil trials of clergymen
20	King John	was forced to sign the Magna Carta
21	King Edward I	king responsible for establishing the role of Parliament in England
22	King Louis VI “the Fat”	consolidated royal control over Paris
23	King Philip II	began administrative kingship in France
24	King Louis IX-St. Louis	Extended royal control over southern France
25	Emperor Frederick I -“Barbarossa”	proclaimed kingdom Holy Roman Empire in Germany
26	King Ferdinand & Queen Isabella	Financed the exploration of New World by Christopher Columbus
27	Diocletian	Attempted to strengthen rule of succession in the Roman Empire through tetrarchy
28	Theodosius the Great	made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire
29	Zealots	Jewish radical who believed in the violent overthrow of Roman rule and the coming of the...
30	Sadducees	conservative Jewish, who believed in strict adherence to the laws of the Torah
31	Pharisees	Jewish who were devotion to religious law, but were flexible to applying it everyday...
32	Essenes	Jewish group that lived a monastic life to escape the temptations of the world
33	St. Paul	Responsible for spreading Christianity beyond the Jews
34	Arians	Christians who believed the Jesus was lesser than God, but greater than man
35	Athanasians	Christians who believed in the co-equality of God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit
36	Council of Nicaea	the MEETING that established the co-equality of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit known as...
37	St. Benedict of Nursia	Codified the rules of Monasticism
38	Emperor Valens	Lost Battle of Adrianople to the Goths
39	Alaric	leader of the Goths who sacked Rome
40	Romulus Augustulus	last emperor to rule the Western Empire
41	St. Jerome	man responsible for writing the Vulgate Bible
42	St. Ambrose	developed the concept of the Superiority of the Church over kings
43	St. Augustine	author of Confessions & On the City of God
44	Cassiodorus	Wrote Institutes which compiled all the classical works that religious teachers needed...
45	Justinian	last emperor who tried to recover what had been the Roman Empire
46	The Code	Laws of the Roman Empire from the Emperor Hadrian to Justinian
47	Tribonian	Chosen by Justinian to collect the laws of the empire
48	The Novels	book that contained the legislation of Justinian and his successors
49	The Digest	summary of the writings of the great jurists of the Roman Empire
50	The Institutes	textbook of the legal principles reflected in the Digest and the Code
51	Belisarius	general who was chosen by Justinian to reconquer the Western empire
52	Leo the Isaurian	Started Eastern Christian reforms known as Iconoclasm
53	Battle of Manzikert	Destruction of Byzantine army by Seljuk Turks
54	Muhammad	Last in long line of God’s prophets
55	Quraish	Tribe that controlled trade in Mecca
56	Hijrah	Journey from Mecca to Medina that marks the beginning of Muslim calendar
57	Medina	City that asked for Muhammad to come there to settle conflict of tribes
58	The Kabah	sacred stone worshipped by Muslims
59	Mecca	holy city of Islam
60	Qur’an	book containing the words of God to Muhammad
61	Abu Bakr	First Caliph
62	Caliph	successor of the prophet
63	Umayyads	oriented to the west
64	Abbasids	Oriented to the east
65	Harun al-Rashid	ruler of Abbasid empire at it's height
66	Arabian Nights	Stories that describe the Abbasid Empire
67	Sunnis	Believe in the succession of Caliphs
68	Shiites	Muslim group that insists that only the descendents of Ali can rule
69	Al-Hakem II	Ruler of Umayyad kingdom of Spain. Had a library of 400,000 books
70	Sufis	Spiritual leaders of Islam
71	Ulama	rule on the meaning of Islamic law
72	Avicenna	author of the Canon of Medicine
73	Averroes	attempts to reconcile Aristotle’s philosophy with Muslim faith
74	Gregory of Tours	6th century bishop whose diary recorded life in Gaul
75	St. Gregory the Great (Pope Gregory I)-	Support of monasticism
76	Charles Martel	Second founder of Frankish state
77	Battle of Tours	Defeat of Muslim incursion into France by Charles Martel
78	Pepin	Father of Charlemagne who became first Carolingian king
79	Mayor of the Palace	Controlled affairs under Merovingian kings
80	Charlemagne	Established powerful kingdom of the Franks
81	Counts	Provincial rulers under Charlemagne
82	Carolingian miniscule	The spacing of words and letters
83	Pope Leo III	Crowns Charlemagne Roman Emperor
84	Louis the Pious	Son of Charlemagne who was unable to maintain control of empire of his father
85	Charles the Bald	Grandson of Charlemagne who gained control of France
86	Louis the German	Grandson of Charlemagne who inherited what became Germany
87	Lothair	Grandson of Charlemagne who gained control of the Middle Kingdom
88	Alfred the Great	English king who codified English Law
89	Medina	City that asked for Muhammad to come there to settle conflict of tribes