History 110, S2010

Professor  Kathleen Addison

Assignment #3 FOR final exam

Section I:  Terms:  Do 25 of the following terms, 1 paragraph per term (briefly). 

Charles Martel (Charlemagne)	Mohammed	“dark ages”
Constantinople	Council of Nicaea	Diocletian’s tetrarchy
In Touta Nike	Abbasid Caliphate	12/25/800
Five pillars of Islam	Umayyid Caliphate	Mali Empire
The Holy Roman Empire	Xiongnu Confederacy	Great Wall
Vandals	Franks	Goths
410	455	476
Sunni	Shi’ite	Carolingian miniscule
Crusades	Sahalian Empires	Attila the Hun
Aix-la-Chappelle	Scriptorum	Louis the Pius
Clovis	Pepin the Short	Caesaropapism
Sundiata	Alcuin	Ibn Battuta
“Great Traditions”	Chang’an	Red Eyebrows
Bantu	Silk Road	Investiture controvery
Feudalism (European)_	Anasazi	Teotihuacan
Plaza of the Sun and Moon	Olmecs	Incan trade route
Mit’a	Chinampas	Tenochtitlan

Section II:  Questions

1. What significance does the fall of Rome have to the rise of the Church?  How does the development of a third monotheistic religion (Islam) affect that?

2. What kind of connections were being made during this time in the East and West?  Why?  Were these connections positive or negative?  Explore both sides. 

3. To what extent were political and religious leadership separated in early Islam?

4. What are the characteristics of the Dark Ages that you would point to as supporting or refuting the claim that nothing significant happens during the period of 500-800 C.E.?  How isolated was western Europe at this time?

5. How does “isolation” (geographically or culturally) affect our understanding of civilizations such as Africa or the Americas? Where are the connections made, and why does that “warp” our perspective in learning about this civilizations? What significance does this have to the “great” or “small” traditions school of thought?