History - Transition: England, the Church, and the Growth of Islam
illuminated manuscript
A manuscript decorated with gold, colors, pictures or designs. The first letter of a page was often elaborately designed.
dynasty
A succession of rulers from the same family.
The major Islamic Caliphate after 750 was:
Abbasid
icon
Religious picture or image, in the eastern church usually painted on wood or ivory.
Thanes
Also thegns. A member of a social class that were servants of the king and were given land in exchange for military service. Members of this class included mostly lesser nobles, soldiers, and ministers.
One of the greatest scholars of his time was the monk known as _______, who died in 735.
Bede
During the reign of Basil II, _________ became the cultural center of the Mediterranean, and Byzantine culture reached its highest point.
Constantinople
mosaic
Decoration or picture made of small pieces of stone, glass, wood, and so forth set in a frame.
726
Leo III destroyed religious statutes
In 1055, Baghdad, capital of the Islamic Empire, was captured by the:
Turks
fresco
Watercolor paintings done on wet plaster.
The Anglo-Saxon epic, _______, was probably written in the seventh or eighth century.
beowulf
1054
break between Roman and Eastern churches
800
coronation of Charlemagne
Charlemagne was the Saxon king of Wessex.
false
During the reign of Basil II, the Byzantine Empire _________ the most territory held since the reign of Justinian.
gained
787
iconoclasm condemned by a church council
The Book of Kells and the Lindisfarne Gospels are two of the most famous __________.
illuminated manuscripts
The reign of Alfred the Great is not related to:
the death of Eric Bloodaxe