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| 5079580989 | orthodox | Russian form of Christianity brought from the Byzantine Empire, believed politics overruled religious power | 0 | |
| 5079584557 | byzantium | an ancient city founded by the Greeks; site of modern Istanbul; in 330 Constantine I rebuilt the city and called it Constantinople and made it his capital; a continuation of the Roman Empire in the Middle East after its division in 395 | 1 | |
| 5079587303 | constantinople | former capital of Turkey; rebuilt on the site of ancient Byzantium by Constantine I in the fourth century; renamed Constantinople by Constantine who made it the capital of the Byzantine Empire | 2 | |
| 5079589783 | constantine | Emperor of Rome who stopped the persecution of Christians and in 324 made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire; in 330 he moved his capital from Rome to Byzantium and renamed it Constantinople | 3 | |
| 5079594809 | justinian | Byzantine emperor who held the eastern frontier of his empire against the Persians; codified Roman law in 529 | 4 | |
| 5079597408 | body of civil law | justinian code; a law respected for 800 hundred years, a basic guide line for laws | 5 | |
| 5079597409 | hagia sophia | a 6th century masterpiece of Byzantine architecture in Istanbul; built as a Christian church, converted to a mosque in 1453 | 6 | |
| 5079602109 | battle of manzikert | a battle in 1071 in which the Byzantines under the emperor Romanus IV Diogenes were defeated by the Seljuq Turks led by the sultan Alp-Arslan | 7 | |
| 5079602110 | cyrillic | a language created by orthodox church to get Slavic and Germanic followers | 8 | |
| 5079604883 | rurik | 879, Scandinavian prince, founder of Rurik dynasty in which they controlled Kievan Rus | 9 | |
| 5079604884 | kiev | Political center of eastern Slav. It established political and social relations with Byzantine Empire. Later it was overthrown by Mongols. | 10 | |
| 5079607846 | vladimir | Ruler of Russian kingdom of Kiev from 980 to 1015; converted kingdom to Christianity | 11 | |
| 5079607847 | boyars | Russian landholding aristocrats | 12 | |
| 5079612737 | seljuks and mongols | Seljuk Empire, medieval Turko-Persian Sunni Muslim empire | 13 | |
| 5079618935 | clovis | Clovis was the first king of the Franks to unite all of the Frankish tribes under one ruler | 14 | |
| 5079621322 | charles martel | reunited and ruled the entire Frankish realm and stemmed the Muslim invasion at Poitiers in 732 | 15 | |
| 5079624386 | battle of tours | 732 between forces under the Frankish leader Charles Martel and a massive invading Islamic army; the Franks defeated the Islamic army and preserved Christianity as the controlling faith in Europe | 16 | |
| 5079628539 | charlemagne | king of the Franks 768-814; as Charles I, first emperor of the Holy Roman Empire | 17 | |
| 5079631192 | william the conqueror | leader of the Norman Conquest of England. He defeated the English forces at the Battle of Hastings in 1066 and became the first Norman king of England. | 18 | |
| 5079631193 | manorialism | in medieval times, the organization of rural economy and society by three classes of manors: demesne, serf or villein holdings, and free peasant land | 19 | |
| 5079635684 | three field system | method of agricultural organization introduced in Europe in the Middle Ages and representing a decisive advance in production techniques | 20 | |
| 5079635685 | feudalism | a system in which people relied on loyalty and labor; I scratch your back, you scratch mine | 21 | |
| 5079638692 | vassals | a person or country in a subordinate position to another | 22 | |
| 5079638693 | tithe | religious tax; 10% of earnings for church | 23 | |
| 5079641465 | canon law | the body of codified ecclesiastical law governing a Catholic church | 24 | |
| 5079645366 | excommunication | officially exclude someone from participation in the sacraments and services of the Christian Church | 25 | |
| 5079664372 | interdict | Roman Catholic Church withdrawing certain sacraments and Christian burial from a person or all persons in a particular district due to political leader | 26 | |
| 5079664373 | investiture | when a politic leader elected church officals | 27 | |
| 5079668777 | pope urban II | ordered the first crusades | 28 | |
| 5079673033 | richard the lionhearted | led the third crusade in which Christians were allowed in Jerusalem, but Muslims still ruled | 29 |
