| A | B |
|---|
| Constantinople | Capitol of Byzantine Empire |
| Mediterranean and Black Seas | Bodies of Water important to Byzantium |
| Justinian | Emperor who codified Roman Law |
| Constantine | Emperor who legalized Christianity |
| Theodora | Empress who increased women's rights |
| St. Cyril | Byzantine missionary who gave an alphabet to Slavs, Bulgarians, Russians and Serbs |
| Silk | Major emport of the Byzantine Empire |
| Greek, Roman, Persian | Cultures that made up Byzantine culture |
| Greek | Language spoken in Byzantium |
| Eastern Orthodox Christianity | Byzantine religion |
| Head of the Orthodox Church | Patriarch |
| Roman Catholic Christianity | Western Roman religion |
| Head of the Roman Catholic Church | Pope |
| Icons | religious images whose use created controversy |
| Schism | Means separation particularly of religious groups |
| Mosaics | In Byzantium, these were pictures of religious or political images put together with tiles or pieces of glass |
| Who ended the Byzantine Empire? | Ottoman Turks |
| Who founded Islam? | Muhammad |
| Location where Islam was founded | Mecca |
| Monotheism | Allah |
| Quran (Koran) | Muslim Holy Book the word of God |
| Five Pillars of Islam | Faith, Worship Giving, Pilgrimage, Fasting |
| Jesus and Moses | Minor prophets in Islam |
| How did Islam spread? | Conquests and trade routes |
| Geography of the Islamic region | Desert Fertile Crescent Arabia |
| Language of the Islamic civilization | Arabic |
| Two relgious cities the Muslims took over | Damascus and Jerusalem |
| Battle of Tours (in France) | Muslims were defeated here and stopped from entering Europe any farther than Spain |
| Islamic Divisions | Sunni and Shia |
| Accomplishments of the Islamic civilization | mosaics, Arabic alphabet universities, ancient texts in Arabic, algebra, medicine, geographic knowledge |
| Dome of the Rock | Famous mosque in Jerusalem |
| Muslims borrowed Arabic numerals, zero and algebra from this civilization | India |
