Across
- 2. Eastern ___________: a sect of christianity developed in East Rome
- 4. City where Muslims are meant to make a pilgrimage to
- 7. Caliph that took over after Muhammad died
- 11. developed a republican form of government
- 13. Founder of Islam
- 14. peasant bound to a lords land in the middle ages
- 15. another term for bubonic plague
- 19. pray 5 times daily, charity, fasting, faith, pilgrimage to mecca
- 20. Persian culture is found in this modern day country
- 21. Empire located where modern day Turkey and Greece is, bordered the islamic caliphates
- 24. head of the catholic church
- 25. place where lords, knights, and serfs lived
- 26. Caliphate established after the assassination of Ali
- 27. Arabic word for god
- 28. these animals carried the bubonic plague
Down
- 1. islamic temple
- 3. the islamic equivalent to an Empire
- 5. crowned the "Holy roman emperor"
- 6. democracy first develops here
- 8. capital of modern day Iraq
- 9. term for "muslim community"
- 10. Famous for making christianity the official religion in Rome
- 12. Jerusalem is located in this modern day country
- 16. Shi'a Muslims believed this person was the rightful successor to Muhammad
- 17. holy site in Mecca (square black/gold building)
- 18. Empire that made Baghdad an islamic center
- 19. dominant social system in the middle ages (lords, knights, serfs)
- 22. Religious texts of islam
- 23. Islamic term for "struggle against evil" used to justify fighting non believers