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Post Classical Period :black_flag: (Byzantine Empire :pen: (Political…
Post Classical Period :black_flag:
Byzantine Empire :pen:
Social :red_flag:
A Bulgarian King took the title of tsar, or Ceasar
Women were opressed and they usually stayed at home
Constantine
Became the first Emperor of the Byzantine Empire and rebuilt Byzantium the former capital of the Byzantine empire.
Justinian I
Codified Roman Law
Influenced Byzantine greatly in the short span of his reign.
Built the Hagia Sophia
Political
Ceasaropopiasm
The emperor was higher than the opoe and had more power.
Merchants could not receive political power
Codified Roman Law
Justinian Law Code
collection of laws that formed the basis for Byzantine law under Emperor Justinian
A bureaucracy
Justinian Empire :star:
wants to reestablish Roman concepts in the West
Reconquered Territory during the Goth Wars
Rebuilds the agaisophia Church :explode:
Economics
Constantinople was central to long distance trade
Peasants supplied food
Ventured into the silk business
Culture
Christianity became the dominant religion and the first empire to have Christianity
Hagia Sophia
Built by Justinian to honor Christianity and have it as a worship sanctuary.
Feudalism in Europe
The feudal systems are political and social stands in which land is granted through loyalty and military support
Social
Kings gave land to the nobles and from their nobles gave land to knights to protect and serve the peasants of that land
servs were of the lowest class and could not leave the land they were withheld to.
Culture
Christianity
The Great Schism of 1054 Christianity divided into two separate branches.
Roman Catholic Church
The pope had more power than the king
Papacy
The central admission of the Catolic Church in which the pope is the head
Eastern Orthodox Church
Monasticism
Men and Women leave their old lives to become monasteries
Spread of Islam
Social
Women In Islam
Women in Islam did not have many rights
Harem
The section of a house or palace just for women
Bedouin
Pastoral nomads and early converts to islam
Believed in animism
Political
Ummayyad Caliphate
The first caliph moved the capital of Medina to Damascus which caused Arab people to mix with non-arabs
Abbasids
A member of the Abbasid caliphate which were descendants of Abbas,uncle of Muhammad
Madrasas
The caliphs of the Abbasid dynasty appointed many individuals to preserve and translate the writings of the ancient Greeks and Indians
Sunni
A minority group of authorities that put in charge a caliph that still continues,
Shari'a
Laws based on by the Qur'an and hadith
Succesors of Muhammad
Abu Bakr
One of Muhammad's earliest converts; succeeded Muhammad as first caliph of Muslim community
Ali
Son in Law of Muhammad and focused on Shari'a
Economics
Trade was a big part of Islam since it gave ideas to spread the word of Islam
Zakat
Tax for charity
Culture
People of the Book
Jews and Christians that lived in Muslim countries.
Five pillars of faith
The 5 basic principles of the Islamic faith
Ka'ba
One of the most important shrines in Mecca which was founded by the Umayyad clan
Hijrah
A pilgrimmage to Medina that marked the founding date of Islam
Hajj
Once in a lifetime pilgrimmage to Mecca to go worship Allah at the Ka'ba
Mecca
City in Western Saudi Arabia , known as the spiritual center of Islam
Muhammad
The final prophet of Islam and the founder of Islam
Qur'an
Believed to be the word of Allah not just sayings from Muhammad
Animism
This was believed that spirits have been rested upon ordinary objects. Belief in the Bedouin religion
Umma
The Muslim Community that started in Medina and followed Muhammad is accepted by other clans that feuded .
African Kingdoms
Social
Merchants moved up in society
Merchants were elite in East Africa giving them luxury,
Matrilineal descent
It is based on the wife's family
Kin-based networks
Kinship system is the pattern of relationships that define people's family relationships to one another.
Political
Family based clans
The wealthy could control trade
Mosques in East Africa were ruled by sultans
Ghana's kings were Judges, religious leaders, and generals
Culture
Ibn Battuta
Moroccan Muslim scholar and traveler.
Introduced Islam to African Tribes
West Africans were the first to convert to Islam
Swahili
a Bantu language widely used as a lingua franca in East Africa and having official status in several countries
Most practiced animism
Blended animism with Islam
Economic
Trans-Saharan Trade
r sub-Saharan Africa from the North African coast, Europe, to the Levant.
Indian Ocean Trade
Long distance trade in dhows and sailboats made it a dynamic zone of interaction between peoples, cultures, and civilizations