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| 11030619290 | theocracy | A government controlled by religious leaders; no separation between state and church; The Byzantine empire was a theocracy | 0 | |
| 11030619291 | iconoclast | one who opposes established beliefs, customs, and institutions; Leo III | 1 | |
| 11030624663 | Patriarch | Highest church official; the emperor named the head the head of the church; Byzantine empire | 2 | |
| 11030892471 | Monostaries | Religious communities; Byzantine empire founded 300 and 400. monks and nuns lived in them of prayer. provided aid | 3 | |
| 11030971070 | schism | division, separation, roman catholic church split in western Europe and eastern orthodox church in southeastern Europe and Russia | 4 | |
| 11031006164 | Theme system | made land available to the peasants in return for military service; emperors gave limits on how much land any landowner van own | 5 | |
| 11031071961 | illuminated manuscripts | books from the Middle Ages that featured decorative, colorful designs and illustrations on each page | 6 | |
| 11031102553 | boyars | Russian nobles; also served as a a war council | 7 | |
| 11031193900 | Russkaya Pravda | Russian Justice; Yaroslav I | 8 | |
| 11030658380 | Corpus Juris Civilis | New code of the Roman Law decided by Justinian I in 529 CE that made Orthodox Christianity the law of the land. It means the "body of civil law". They used this until the nineteenth century. | 9 | |
| 11030764641 | Bulgars | Turkic people originally from Central Asia; took over much of the Balkans | 10 | |
| 11031124146 | Crusades | a series of military expeditions in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries by Westrn European Christians to reclain control of the Holy Lands from the Muslims;control for christians | 11 |
