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| 14914393097 | Byzantine Empire | Eastern half of Roman Empire following collapse of western half of old empire. maintained Mediterranean culture, particularly greek. Its capital was at Constantionople | 0 | |
| 14914393098 | Hagia Sophia | Most famous example of Byzantine architecture. Was built under Justinian I and is consider one of the most perfect buildings in the world. is also a huge church | 1 | |
| 14914393099 | Belisarius | One of Justinians most important military commanders during period of reconquest of Western Europe, commanded in north africa and Italy | 2 | |
| 14914393100 | icons | a conventional religious painting in oil on a small wooden panel, venerated in the eastern orthodox church | 3 | |
| 14914393101 | Rurik | Legendary Scandinavian regarded as founder of the first kingdom of Russia based in Kiev in 855 | 4 | |
| 14914393102 | yuroslav I | last of the great Kievan monarchs; issued legal condification based on format code developed in Byzantine | 5 | |
| 14914393103 | Balkan Peninsula | A large peninsula in southern Europe bounded by the Black,Aegen, and Adriatic Seas | 6 | |
| 14914393104 | Justinian | Byzantine emperor who held the eastern frontier of his empire against the Persians | 7 | |
| 14914393105 | Greek Fire | Byzantine weapon consisting of mixture of chemicals like sulfur petrolruem and quicklime, that ignites when exposed to water | 8 | |
| 14914393106 | Iconoclasm | the breaking of images; religious controversy of the 8th century. the Byzantine empire attempted but failed to surpress icon veneration | 9 | |
| 14914393107 | Vladimir I | Grand prince of Kiev who converted to orthodox christianity and made it the state religion; one of the first czars | 10 | |
| 14914393108 | Boyards | Russian landholding aristocrats. Possesed less political power than their western European counterparts | 11 | |
| 14914393109 | Battle of Manzikert | Battle between the Byzantine Empire and Seljuk Turks in 1071; byzantine lost | 12 | |
| 14914393110 | Theodora | The wife of Justinian; improved the status of women in the Byzantinian Empire | 13 | |
| 14914393111 | Bulgaria | Slavic Kingdom in northern portions of Balkan Peninsula that presented a major change to Byzantine Empire | 14 | |
| 14914393112 | Cyril and Methodius | Byzantine missionaries sent to convert eastern euproe and the balkans; created the slavic written script, cyrillic | 15 | |
| 14914393113 | Russian Orthodoxy | Russian form of christianity imported from Byzantine Empire and combined with local religion | 16 | |
| 14914393114 | Tartars | Mongols; captured russian cities and largely destroyed Kieven state in 1236; left russian orthodoxy and aristocracy in tact | 17 |
