AP World Chp 10

(330-1453) The eastern half of the Roman Empire, which survived after the fall of the Western Empire at the end of the 5th century C.E. Its capital was Constantinople, named after the Emperor Constantine.

• Holy Roman Empire

• Ottoman Empire

• Byzantine Empire

• Roman Empire

A political-religious system in which the secular ruler is also head of the religious establishment, as in the Byzantine Empire

• Caesaropapism

• Jesus Sutras

• Athanasianism

• Arianism

800 AD crowned by the Pope as the head of the Holy Roman Empire, which extended from northern Spain to western Germany and northern Italy. His palace was at Aachen in central Europe

• Constantine

• Kievan Rus

• Prince Vladimir of Kiev

• Charlemagne

A large and wealthy city that was the imperial capital of the Byzantine empire and later the Ottoman empire, now known as Istanbul

• Constantinople

• Istanbul

• Charlemagne

• Ankara

a series of military expeditions in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries by Western European Christians to reclaim control of the Holy Lands from the Muslims

• Wars

• Crusades

• The Holy Wars

• The War on Islam

Christian followers in the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantine Empire); split from Roman Catholic Church and shaped life in eastern Europe and western Asia

• Ethiopian Christianity

• Eastern Orthodox Church

• Jesus Sutras

• Western Christendom

• Roman Catholic Church

Emerging in the fourth century with the conversion of the rulers of Axum, this Christian church proved more resilient than other early churches in Africa. Located in the mountainous highlands of modern Eritrea and Ethiopia, it was largely cut off from other parts of Christendom and developed traditions that made it distinctive from other Christian Churches.

• Western Christendom

• Nubian Christianity

• Roman Catholic Church

• Ethiopian Christianity

A medieval and early modern central European Germanic empire, which often consisted of hundreds of separate Germanic and Northern Italian states. In reality it was so decentralized that it played a role in perpetuating the fragmentation of central Europe.

• Holy Roman Empire

• Byzantine Empire

• Constantinople

• Western Christendom

religious images used by eastern christians to aid their devotions

• Jesus Sutras

• Crusades

• Icons

• Kievan Rus

The product of Nestorian Christians living in China, these sutras articulate the Christian message using Buddhist and Daoist concepts.

• Kievan Rus

• Godly Sutras

• Icons

• Jesus Sutras