Unit 2.1 The Byzantine Empire & The Emergence of Islam

1. This was the era in which many tribes and peoples, such as the Goths, Germans, Huns, Avars, Slavs, and others, moved within and into Europe, causing great disruption to the Roman Empire.

• Migration Period

• Five Pillars

• Sassanid Dynasty

• Constantinople

This is the name given by historians to the primarily Greek-run Eastern Roman Empire after the fall of Rome to Ostrogoths in 485 CE.

• Abbasid Caliphate

• Byzantine Empire

• Persians

• Sassanid Dynasty

This was the capital city of the Eastern Roman Empire until its capture by the Ottoman Empire in 1453 CE.

• Constantinople
• Cairo
• Rome
• Athens

This is the famous Roman emperor who created the capital detailed above and moved his administration there to be closer to their eastern Persian rivals, and legalized Christianity in the roman empire in 313 CE.

• Julius Caesar
• Nero
• Augustus
• Constantine I

This is the name of the Persian Empire that functioned as the archrival to the Roman Empire from the 3rd to 7th centuries CE.

• Achaemenid Empire
• Parthian Empire
• Sassanian Dynasty

• Byzantine Empire

This is the emperor who reconquered the Western Roman Empire in the 6th century and issued several legal policies and reforms that set the foundations for modern legal institutions and practices.

• Justinian I
• Augustus
• Constantine the Great
• Nero

This was the name of one of the legal policies detailed above that formed the basis for modern legal institutions and practices.

• Civil Law
• Code of Justinian

• Statutory Law
• Administrative Law

Along with Cyril, this missionary is famous for spreading Christianity into Southern and Eastern Europe and is credited for the conversion of the Slavic peoples.

• Francis
• Methodius
• Benedict
• Augustine

According to Islam, this is the prophet that codified its core beliefs and began a series of conquests in Arabia during the early 7th century CE.

• Ali
• Abu Bakr
• Omar
• Muhammad

This is the name of the text which contains the foundational documents and doctrines of Islam.

• Bible
• Vedas
• Quran
• Talmud