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| 298794946 | Hagia Sofia | was a huge new church that Justinian ordered to be built. It was an achievement for both engineering and architecture, because of the size of its large dome roof. | 0 | |
| 298794947 | Belisarius | a brilliant general who fought under Justinian. He helped gain land in north Africa and Italy, both of which they soon lost, due to foreign invaders. | 1 | |
| 298794948 | Greek Fire | a mixture of petroleum, quicklime, and sulfur, which helped the Byzantine Empire to beat back the Arabs during a major siege of the capital in 717-718. | 2 | |
| 298794949 | Bulgaria | a Slavic kingdom that pressed Byzantine territory in the Balkans, even though the Byzantine Empire sometimes had control of it. | 3 | |
| 298794950 | Icon | paintings of the saints and other religious figures, often richly ornamented. Byzantine art was distinct in the way that they elaborated richly colored religious mosaics. | 4 | |
| 298794951 | Cyril and Methodius | missionaries that were sent by the Byzantine government in 864, to the area which is now Czech and Slovak republics. They devised a written language derived from Greek letters, which are today are used as the Slavic language. | 5 | |
| 298794952 | Kiev | a city in which one of the first Scandinavian governments was set up, by Scandinavian traders. | 6 | |
| 298794953 | Vladimir l | a Rurik descendant who ruled the prosperous trading center kingdom of Kievan Rus' from 980 to 1015, and converted the kingdom to Christianity. | 7 | |
| 298794954 | Russian Orthodox | developed as a church as a result of Vladimir I's decision to convert his kingdom and everyone in it to Christianity. | 8 | |
| 298794955 | Yaroslav | the last of the great Kievan princes. He issued legal codification, built many churches, and arranged the translation of religious literature from Greek to Slavic. | 9 | |
| 298794956 | Boyars | Russian aristocrats who negotiated with Kievan princes, but did not have much political power. | 10 | |
| 298794957 | Tartars | a Turkish word, adopted by Russian tradition. It was used to describe the invaders who were so quickly despised. | 11 |
