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| 126534346 | Balkan Peninsula | A large peninsula in southern Europe bounded by the Black, Aegean, and Adriatic seas. | 0 | |
| 126534347 | Constantinople | The capital of the eastern Roman Empire and later of the Byzantine Empire | 1 | |
| 126534348 | alexandria | City in Egypt founded by Alexander the Great, center of commerce and Hellenistic civilization | 2 | |
| 126534349 | Mediterranean | A large sea between two continents, southern Europe and northern Africa | 3 | |
| 126534350 | Black Sea | An Inland Sea between Europe and Asia; connected with Aegean Sea by Bosporus, the Sea of Marmara, the Dardanelles | 4 | |
| 126534351 | Bosporus and Dardanelles | Two straights wanted by the Russians during the decline of the Ottoman empire. | 5 | |
| 126534352 | Straits | narrow water passages | 6 | |
| 126534353 | Anatolia | The peninsula between the Mediterranean and the Black Seas that is now occupied by most of Turkey; also called Asia Minor | 7 | |
| 126534354 | Damascus | the chosen city by the umayyad Caliphs in Syria to be their capital. they ruled from ad 661 to ad 750 | 8 | |
| 126534355 | Bulgaria | Slavic kingdom established in northern portions of Balkan peninsula; constant source of pressure on Byzantine Empire; defeated by Emperor Basil II in 1014. | 9 | |
| 126534356 | Danube River | The second-longest river of Europe. It flows from southern Germany east into the Black Sea. | 10 | |
| 126534357 | Cyril and Methodius | Christian missionaries who tried to teach the Bible to Slavs in central and eastern Europe. and made an alphabet for them | 11 | |
| 126534358 | Corpus iuris civilis | "Body of Civil Law," Justinian's codification of Roman law | 12 | |
| 126534359 | Red Sea | a long arm of the Indian Ocean between northeast Africa and Arabia; linked to the Mediterranean at the north end by the Suez Canal | 13 |
