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