Warm Up Activity #4 - South Pointe Middle

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Transcript Warm Up Activity #4 - South Pointe Middle

 Please answer each question in a
complete sentence.
 Describe one of the factors that led
to an instable Europe in the 5th, 6th
and 7th centuries AD.
 Define the term Besiege
 How did Humans contract the
Bubonic Plague?
Muslim expansion, That famous Lumberjack and
Here comes the Hammer!
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Charles Martel
Iconoclasm
Reconquista
Moors
Abbasid Caliphate
Battle of Tours
Saint Boniface
 The Eastern Roman (Byzantine)
Empire faced enemies from all
sides and saw their power once
again fade in the West.
 Augustine of Canterbury is sent to
Great Britain where he is tasked
with converting the Anglo-Saxons
to Christitanity.
 Islam expands rapidly out of Arabia
and destroys the Persian Empire in
the East and defeats Byzantine
power in Syria, the Levant and
North Africa.
 Christianity continues to spread in
Europe through Missionaries
converting the Nobility.
 The Frankish Nobility begins the
process of establishing Feudalism
in Europe.
 Caliph Ali ibn Abi Talib is
assassinated; with his assassination
the Rashidun Caliphate ends and
Muawiyah I founds the Umayyad
caliphate.
 According to the Annales Cambriae,
the Anglo-Saxons convert to
Christianity after the Second Battle
of Badon. Sighere of Essex
encourages his subjects to reject
Christianity and return to their
indigenous religion.
 Eastern Roman Emperor Constans II
is assassinated in his bath at
Syracuse, Italy. Mezezius is
proclaimed Emperor by the army in
Syracuse in the absence of the sons
of Constans II.
 Constantine IV, son of Constans II,
becomes Byzantine Emperor,
succeeding Constans II. He organizes
an expedition to kill the usurper
Mezezius.
 Battle of Two Rivers: King Ecgfrith of
Northumbria defeats the Picts.
 The first Arab siege of Constantinople
begins.
 Frithuwold of Surrey is baptised and
so is his son; Surrey becomes
Christian.
 Arabs raid Crete.
 According to the Chronicon Pictum,
the last of the Onogur tribes fleeing
Khazars in the Ukraine come to
Hrpad in Pannonia and the area
becomes known as Hungary.
 The first Arab siege of Constantinople
ends.
 Pope Agatho succeeds Pope Donus
as the 79th pope. He is the first to
stop paying tribute to the Byzantine
Emperor upon election.
 The Bulgars subjugate the country of
current-day Bulgaria.
 Pippin of Heristal becomes Mayor of
the Palace.
 Armenians, Albanians, and Iberians
rise in rebellion against the Caliphate
in the Caucasus.
 The Kingdom of Kent is attacked and
conquered by West Saxons under
Caedwalla. Caedwalla exterminates
the Jutes of the Isle of Wight and kills
King Arwald.
 King Theuderic III of Neustria is
defeated by Pepin of Herstal, Mayor
of the Palace of Austrasia, at the
Battle of Tertry near Péronne in
modern France. Austrasia and
Neustria are combined again; Pepin
becomes de facto ruler of both areas.
 Construction of the Dome of the
Rock is started in Jerusalem.
 Battle of Dorestad: The Frisians of
king Radbod are defeated by the
Frankish mayor of the palace, Pippin
of Herstal. The Rhine delta becomes
Frankish.
 Hispano-Visigothic king Egica accuses
the Jews of aiding the Muslims, and
sentences all Jews to slavery.
 Paolo Lucio Anafesto is elected the
first Doge of Venice.
 Arabs under Hassan ibn al-Nu'man
capture Carthage from the Byzantine
Empire, and destroy it completely.
The defeated Byzantine fleet revolts
and proclaims Tiberius III, who
deposes Leontius after a brief siege
of Constantinople and becomes
Byzantine Emperor.
 Umayyad troops invade Armenia and
secure submission of Smbat VI
Bagratuni.
 Musa bin Nusair defeats the Berber
army in Algeria, ending resistance
against the Arabs there.
 The Umayyad prince Abdallah ibn
Abd al-Malik captures the Byzantine
stronghold of Theodosiopolis.
 Muhammad ibn Marwan invades the
Byzantine Armenian provinces east
of the Euphrates; the local
commander Baanes surrenders
before the large Arab army and the
population accepts a Muslim
governor.
 Large-scale Armenian rebellion
against Muslim rule breaks out with
Byzantine support.
 Abdallah ibn Abd al-Malik captures
Mopsuestia in Cilicia from the
Byzantines and refortifies it, making
it the first Muslim base in the area
that will later become the Thughur.
 The Umayyad general Muhammad
ibn Marwan suppresses the
Armenian revolt, captures and
deports Smbat VI Bagratuni and
other leading princes. Many of the
captured nakharar are gathered into
churches and burned alive at
Nakhchevan.
 The Byzantines lose the Balearic
Islands to the Moors.
 Nazaktar Khan, a Turk Shahi prince in
alliance with the Tibetan Kingdom,
captures Bactria from the Umayyads.
 Roderic deposes Achila to become
king of the Visigoths. A Muslim army
is invited into Ceuta by its governor,
Count Julian, who, being an
opponent of Roderic, encourages
them to invade the Iberian
peninsula.
 Umayyad troops led by Tariq ibn Ziyad
land at Gibraltar, and begin their
invasion of the Iberian Peninsula and
conquest of the Visigothic Kingdom.
Battle of Guadalete: Umayyad Moors'
victory over the Visigothic army.
Visigothic king Roderic (Rodrigo in
Spanish and Portuguese) dies in the
battle.
 After pirates plunder an Arab ship near
the mouth of the Indus River, Arabs led
by Muhammad bin Qasim invade India
with 10,000 men and 6,000 horses,
establishing a sultanate in Sindh.
 Zaragoza falls to the Arab armies of
Musa bin Nusair.
 On the death of Pepin II, his
illegitimate son Charles Martel
becomes mayor of the Austrasian
palace and effective power behind
the Frankish throne.
 Nechtan mac Der-Ilei, King of the
Picts invites the Northumbrian clergy
to establish Christianity amongst the
Picts.
 The Ummayads conquer Lisbon.
 Boniface begins missions to the
Germans.
 Leo III the Isaurian usurps the throne
of Byzantium.
 Maslamah ibn Abd al-Malik begins
the Second Arab siege of
Constantinople, which will last for
nearly a year.
 Battle of Covadonga, marking the
start of the Reconquista by a
Christian military force (under
Pelagius of Asturias) of the Iberian
Peninsula following the Umayyad
conquest of Hispania in 711.
 Byzantine Emperor Leo III the
Isaurian and Khan Tervel of Bulgaria
force the troops of the Umayyad
Caliphate to abandon the Second
Arab Siege of Constantinople (717–
718), preventing a major Arab
incursion into the Byzantine Empire.
 Battle of Toulouse: after besieging
Toulouse for three months, Al-Samh
ibn Malik al-Khawlani, the Wāli
(governor) of Al-Andalus (Muslim
Spain), is defeated (and dies of his
injuries) by Odo the Great, Duke of
Aquitaine, preventing the spread of
Umayyad control westward from
Narbonne into Aquitaine.
 Saint Boniface fells Thor's Oak near
Fritzlar, marking the decisive event in
the Christianization of the northern
Germanic tribes.
 Leo III the Isaurian bans the worship
of religious images, beginning the
iconoclastic controversies.
 Pope Gregory II condemns
iconoclasm, causing Byzantine Italy
to break with the Empire.
 The Battle of Ravenna is fought
between the troops of Byzantine
Emperor Leo III the Isaurian, and a
force of Italians, raised by Pope
Gregory II in defence of image
worship, which Leo had outlawed.
After a severe struggle, the Greeks
are routed; thousands are killed in
flight to their ships. The waters of the
Po River are so infected with blood, it
is said, that for six years the
inhabitants of Ravenna will not eat
fish from the river.
 Charles Martel defeats the last
independent dukedom of the
Alamanni, and launches raids on the
Saxons beyond the Rhine.
 Battle of Tours: Near Poitiers, France,
leader of the Franks Charles Martel
and his men, defeat a large army of
Moors under the governor of
Cordoba, Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi,
who is killed during the battle. The
Battle of Tours halts the advance of
Islam into Western Europe and
establishes a balance of power
between Western Europe, Islam and
the Byzantine Empire.
 An earthquake strikes Constantinople
and the surrounding countryside,
causing destruction to the city's land
walls and buildings, and many deaths.
 Rebellion of the Berber tribes in the
recently conquered region of Galicia.
This facilitates the establishment of an
independent kingdom in the Cantabrian
Mountains under Alfonso I of Asturias.
 The Khazars, a nation of the Black Sea
steppe, though not ethnically Jewish,
voluntarily convert to Judaism.
 Bubonic plague in Constantinople
subsequently sweeps through
Europe.
 The nobility of the Alamanni is killed
at the blood court at Cannstatt.
 Abu Muslim unites the Abbasid
Empire against the Umayyads.
 After the defeat of his army in the
Battle of the Zab the last Umayyad
Caliph, Marwan II, is overthrown and
killed. Al-Saffah is proclaimed the
first Abbasid Caliph. The capital of
the Caliphate will later moved from
Damascus to Baghdad, within the
territory of the former Persian
Empire; this transfer will prove to be
a momentous event for Baghdad,
which develops into a centre of
international trade and culture.
 Pepin the Short is elected as king of
the Franks by the Frankish nobility,
marking the end of the Merovingian
and beginning of the Carolingian
dynasty.
 Use complete sentences. (Yes that is
plural as in more than one)
 When you are done make sure you
write your name on your paper and
turn it into the basket on your way
out the door.
 That doesn’t mean get up now! I’m
looking at you the person who is
getting up now and putting on their
backpack.
 Assignment 6.4 is being distributed
today. It is due on Monday
(1/14/2013).
 You will also receive the
instructions for your unit project
on Monday.
 Have a good weekend and don’t be
a dummy.
Assignment 6.2 is
due today! Make
sure you put your
name on it and
turn it in to the
basket on your
way out the door.