213739290 | constantinople | capital of Eastern Roman empire | 0 | |
213739291 | Hagia Sophia | one of Justinian's builder's creations; the most inspiring of all the new structures; a huge church; long lost wonder of the world | 1 | |
213739292 | Belisarus | brilliant general; made new gains in North Africa and Italy | 2 | |
213739293 | Icons | A painting of Christ or another holy figure, used as an aid to devotion in the Byzantine and other Eastern Churches. | 3 | |
213739294 | Rurik | First prince of Kievan Rus' | 4 | |
213739295 | Yaroslav I | last of the great Keivan princes; issued the legal codification while building many churchesand arranging the translation of religions literature from Greek to Slavic | 5 | |
213739296 | Balkans | mountainous region | 6 | |
213739297 | Justinian | emperor; husband of Theodora; tried to reconquer western territory in a last futile effort to restore an empire like that of Rome | 7 | |
213739298 | Greek fire | new weapon; a type of napalm; mixture of petroleum, quicklime and sulfur | 8 | |
213739299 | Iconoclasm | action of attacking or rejecting cherished beliefs and institutions or established values and practices | 9 | |
213739300 | Vladimir I | decendent of Rurik; ruled from 980 to 1015 | 10 | |
213739301 | Boyars | Russian aristocrats | 11 | |
213739302 | Manzikert | town in Eastern Turkey | 12 | |
213739303 | Theodora | wife of Justinian, very influential in the government | 13 | |
213739304 | Bulgaria | Slavic kingdom; periodically pressed Byzantine territory in the Balkans, although at times military success and marriage alliances brought Byzantine control over the feisty Bulgarian kingdom | 14 | |
213739305 | Cyril and Methodius | missionaries sent to the area of the now Czech and Slovak republics | 15 | |
213739306 | Tatarz - invaders; a Turkish word | invaders; turkish word | 16 | |
213739307 | Kiev | Scandinavia traders gradually set up some governments along their trade route, especially in Kiev | 17 |
AP World History ch. 9 Flashcards
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