AP Byzantine and Caliphates

Eastern half of the Roman Empire that survived the fall of the Western half.

• Byzantine Empire

• Ottoman Empire

• Rashidun Caliphate

• Delhi Sultanate

Movement of people into Western Rome caused by invading Huns that led to an ethnic change and break down of Roman control.

• Great Migration

• Silk Roads

• Trans-Sahara Trade Routes

• Hajj

Emperor of Rome who adopted the Christian faith and stopped the persecution of Christians (280-337)

• Constantine

• Justinian I

• Mansa Musa

• Confucius

Capital of the Byzantine Empire

• Constantinople

• Damasus

• Baghdad

• Timbuktu

A pandemic that afflicted the Byzantine Empire, including its capital Constantinople, in the years 541-542 AD. It has been speculated that this pandemic was caused by Bubonic plague.

• Plague of Justinian

• Code of Justinian

• Great Migration

• Hajj

compilation of the complex system of Roman laws; became the system of laws for the Byzantine Empire; introduced the concept of civil law.

• Code of Justinian

• Plague of Justinian

• Quran

• Ten Commandments

Byzantine missionaries sent to convert people to Eastern Orthodox Christianity; responsible for creation of Slavic written script called Cyrillic.

• Cyril and Methodius
• Constantine and Justinian

• Paul and Peter
• Muhammad and Gabriel

Series of wars which weakened both the Byzantine and Sassanid Empires and allowed them to eventually be defeated by Arab invaders.

• Byzantine-Sassanid Wars

• Crusades
• Battle of Manzikert

• Great Migration

Persian empire located to the east of the Byzantine Empire, political threat to the Byzantines

• Sassanid Empire

• Umayyad Caliphate

• Rashidun Caliphate

• Byzantine Empire

Founder of Islam

• Confucius

• Zoroaster

• Muhammad
• Constantine