| A | B |
|---|
| Charlemagne | crowned Holy Roman Emperor in 800 AD |
| Clovis | Frankish chieftain whose conversion to Christianity started a trend |
| Ferdinand & Isabella | Spanish monarchs who wanted to promote religious unity |
| Innocent III | instigated 3rd crusade & Albigensian Crusade |
| Mikhael Romanov | appointed czar after the “Time of Troubles”; his descendents ruled until 1917 |
| Abbassids | dynasty of caliphs who ruled from Bagdad |
| Justinian | Eastern Roman Emperor famous for his law code |
| Charles Martel | “the Hammer” defeated the Muslims & prevented take over of Europe |
| Shah Abbas | greatest Saffavid ruler |
| St. Dominic | Spanish holy man who founded an order devoted to teaching |
| St. Thomas Aquinas | his Summa Theologia reconciled Christian doctrine with philosophy |
| Akbar | greatest ruler of the Mughal Empire in India |
| Suleiman | greatest Ottoman ruler |
| Umayyids | dynasty of Sunni caliphs who ruled from Damascus |
| Avicenna | Muslim physician noted for his work on diseases |
| Theodosius | Eastern Roman Emperor re-united empire; made Christianity state religion of Rome |
| Saffavids | ruled over Persia as rivals to the Ottoman empire; were Shiite |
| al-Khawarizmi | Muslim inventor of algebra & author of astronomic tables |
| Tamerlame | Mongol invader of India, Persia and beyond |
| Cyril & Methodius | Orthodox missionaries who invented an alphabet for Slavic languages |
| Nanak | founder of Sikhism |
| St. Benedict | his “rule” became the standard for monastic communities across Europe |
| Golden Horde | Mongol invaders of Russia |
| St. Francis | Italian holy man whose friars lived simply & spread the message of Jesus through example |
