history study guide

Study map

Council of Chalcedon: humanity and divinity of Jesus

  • Two natures one person
  • Monophysites: One nature (human)

Justinian

  • Tries to reclaim the west
  • Expands to Italy and North Africa
  • Law code: Corpius Julius civilious
  • Codex
  • Digest: opinions
  • Institutes
  • Novella: new laws

Historian: Procopius

Theodora

  • Dad: heart attack
  • Mom: remarries drunkard
  • Theodora and her sister have to make the living
  • Dancers
  • Side piece of King
  • Stops in Alexandria
  • She finds monks
  • Converts to Christianity
  • Catches the eye of Justinian
  • Lowest class- changes law

Theodora as an empress

  • Improved legal status
  • Women can own property
  • Institutions
  • Hospitals
  • Orphanages
  • Churches
  • Housed prostitutes
  • Islamic vocab
    • Jahiliyya- time of ignorance
    • Bedouins- arab nomads
    • Oasis- fertile spot of water in desert
    • Ka’ba- cube like building
    • Muslim- one who submits
    • Islam- submission
    • Quran- Mohammed’s revelation from Gabriel
    • Surah- chapter
    • Aya- verse
    • The opening- 1st chapter
    • Sunna- things Mohammed said
    • Hadith- sunna in narrative form
    • Muezzin- person who issues call
    • Minaret- the box that muezzin stands on
    • Da’ Wah- peaceful call to come to Islam
    • Jihad- conversion through force

Important dates

  • 610- the first revelation
    • Ramadan
    • Meditating in cave
    • Angel Gabriel- worship Allah
  • 610 to 632- mohammed’s revelation period
  • 632-mohammed dies
  • 622- hegira 
    • Journey from Mecca to Medina
    • Start of Islam calendar

Wars

  • Battle of Badr
    • 624
    • Win
    • Reason- allah fights for his people
  • Battle of Uhud
    • 625
    • lose
    • Reason- not enough faith 
  • Triumphant Takeover of Mecca
    • 630
    • No death
    • Circle the ka’ba 7 times 
    • Destroys 360 idols, keeps black stone

  Mosques

  • Grand Mosque
  • Prophet's Mosque
  • Prophet’s prayer mosque
  • Dome of the rock

  Jews- welcomed Mohammed

  

  1. abraham=important
  2. Oneness of God
  3. Corruption idols

  Ahl Al-Kitab= people who have religious texts

  kafir= people who have rejected

  ummiyyum= people with no revelation

  5 pillars

  • Shahada- statement of faith
  • Salat- ritual prayer 
  • Zakat- almsgiving
  • Salum- fasting
  • Hajj- pilgrimage

  Islam rejects:

  • Trinity
  • Deity of Jesus
  • Incarnation
  • The need for Jesus to die
  • Reliability of the bible

  Islam believes:

  • Salvation comes through works
  • Allah reveals his will; not himself

  France

  • Merovingians dynasty

    • Clovis 
      • Introduces christianity 
      • \
    • Do nothing kings
    • Gave away fiefs (land) for loyalty
      • Real power- mayors of the palace
  • Caroligian dynasty

    • Pepin of Heristal

      • Reunite territories
    • Charles Martel

      • “Hammer”
      • Defeats muslims at battle of Tours
    • Pepin the short

      • All the powers of king but wanted crown
      • Pope Stephen- fights lombards, pepin donates the Papal States to him
    • Carloman

    • Charlemagne

      • Conquest: avars, Saxons, Lombards, Muslims
      • Coronation: christmas in 800, pope Leo III
      • Caroline script: aix-la-chapelle
    • Louis the pious

    • 3 sons fight

      • Charles the bald- west
      • Louis the German- East
      • Lothair- middle
    • Capetian dynasty

      • Hugh Capet
      • Primogeniture- the first born gets the crown
      • Phillip II
      • Fought King John
      • Bailiffs- taxes
      • Louis IX
      • Court of appeals- weakens feudal ties
      • Phillip IV
      • States general- allows commoners to join council
      • Centralized government and democracy

    England * Vikings * Pillage * Rape women * Steal everything * Became christians * Divisions * Danes * Norwegians * swedes

  * Rulers
    * Alfred the Great
      * Defeats Danes
      * Found English navy
      * Shires: counties
      * Shire-reeves: sheriffs
      * Anglo Saxon Chronicle- history of England 
    * Canute
      * Danish ruler
      * Assimilated saxons and danes
    * Edward the confessor
      * Descendant of Alfred and Canute
      * Dies in 1066 without an heir
    * The fight for the throne
      * Harold Godwinson
        * Wessex 
        * Reason: Most powerful english noble
      * William
        * Normandy
        * Reason: Promised the throne by edward
      * Harald Hadrada
        * Norway
        * Reason: had viking kings before
  * Stamford bridge 
    * Godwinson vs HadradaGodwinson vs Hadrada
  * Godwinson wins


  * Battle of Hastings
    * William against Harold
  * Bayeux Tapestry- records events of the battle of Hastings