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| 10668329583 | Hagia Sophia | Most famous example of Byzantine architecture, it was built under Justinian I and is considered one of the most perfect buildings in the world. | 0 | |
| 10668329584 | theocracy | A government ruled by or subject to religious authority. | 1 | |
| 10668329585 | patriarch | the male head of a family or tribe | 2 | |
| 10668329586 | monasteries | Religious community where Christians called monks gave up their possessions and devoted their lives to serving God. | 3 | |
| 10668329587 | Cyrillic | relating to the Slavic alphabet derived from the Greek and traditionally attributed to St. Cyril; in modified form still used in modern Slavic languages | 4 | |
| 10668329588 | schism | (n.) a formal split within a religious organization; any division or separation of a group or organization into hostile factions | 5 | |
| 10668329589 | Eastern Orthodox Church | Christian followers in the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantine Empire); split from Roman Catholic Church and shaped life in eastern Europe and western Asia | 6 | |
| 10668329590 | theme system | System of administration and defense perfected by Byzantine king Leo III that organized the empire into provinces, each under the command of a military governor | 7 | |
| 10668329591 | illuminated manuscripts | a handwritten book decorated with bright colors and precious metals | 8 | |
| 10668329592 | Bulgars | Asiatic people who migrated to the Balkans and conquered large parts of Eastern empire along the Danube | 9 | |
| 10668329593 | University of Constantinople | Established in AD 85, this was one of the earliest institutions of higher learning in the Western World | 10 | |
| 10668329594 | Hippodrome | Built by Justinian; A huge stadium; Held athletic events and games, especially chariot races. Seated 60,000 people located in Constantinople. Site of Nika Revolt. | 11 | |
| 10668329595 | Oleg | First Viking to settle in Kiev and the founder of the Russian state Kievan Rus | 12 | |
| 10668329596 | Dnieper River | river between the Black and Baltic Seas that was part of a Byzantine trade route | 13 | |
| 10668329597 | Kievan Rus | A monarchy established in present day Russia in the 6th and 7th centuries. It was ruled through loosely organized alliances with regional aristocrats from. The Scandinavians coined the term "Russia". It was greatly influenced by Byzantine | 14 | |
| 10668329598 | boyars | Russian landholding aristocrats; possessed less political power than their western European counterparts | 15 | |
| 10668329599 | Prince Vladimir | the prince of Kiev who made the entire city convert to Christianity in 988 AD | 16 | |
| 10668329600 | Yaroslav the Wise | He ruled Kiev (1019-1054), forged trading alliances with western Europe, and created a legal code | 17 | |
| 10668329601 | Russkaya Pravda | It was the "Russian Truth (justice or law)". It was their own law code. It showed signs of an advanced society, more so than Europe. There were crimes against property as well as interest rates implemented which was very sophisticated. It, like everything, was based off of Byzantium law. But was much more mild. | 18 | |
| 10668329602 | Byzantium | the civilization that developed from the eastern Roman Empire following the death of the emperor Justinian (C.E. 565) until the fall of Constantinople in 1453. | 19 | |
| 10668329603 | Corpus Juris Civilis | New code of the Roman Law decided by Justinian I in 529 CE that made Orthodox Christianity the law of the land. It means the "body of civil law". | 20 | |
| 10668329604 | Heraclius | Emperor who defeated the Persians and the Slavs and created the position of "theme" | 21 | |
| 10668329605 | Basil II | Macedonian emperor who campaigned against the Bulgars and annexed Bulgaria, Crete, Cyprus, and Syria, expanding the empire to the Euphrates | 22 | |
| 10668329606 | Battle of Kleidion | Bulgars vs. Byzantium. Byzantium wins. | 23 | |
| 10668329607 | Byzantine Empire | Historians' name for the eastern portion of the Roman Empire from the fourth century until its downfall to the Ottomans in 1453. Famous for being a center of Orthodox Christianity and Greek-based culture. | 24 | |
| 10668329608 | Justinian | Byzantine emperor in the 6th century A.D. who reconquered much of the territory previously ruler by Rome, initiated an ambitious building program , including Hagia Sofia, as well as a new legal code | 25 | |
| 10668329609 | Battle of Manzikert | Battle between the Byzantines and Seljuk Turks; Byzantines destroyed and way paved for the Seljuk Turk invasion into present day Turkey | 26 | |
| 10668329610 | Crusades | A series of holy wars from 1096-1270 AD undertaken by European Christians to free the Holy Land from Muslim rule. | 27 | |
| 10668329611 | Fourth Crusade | Crusade called for by Pope Innocent III in 1204 in which crusaders went rogue and sacked Constantinople. The Byzantine Empire was eventually restored in 1261 | 28 | |
| 10668329612 | Normans | A member of a Viking people who raided and then settled in the French province later known as Normandy, and who invaded England in 1066 | 29 | |
| 10668329613 | Slavs | The ancestors of the Czechs, Slovaks, Croatians, Serbians, Bulgarians, Poles, and Russians | 30 | |
| 10668329614 | Vikings | Invaders of Europe that came from Scandinavia | 31 | |
| 10668329615 | Rus | This kingdom expanded its territory thousands of miles Eastward during the 19th century and also sought to take advantage of a weakened Ottoman Empire. | 32 |
