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| 7500125591 | Orthodox | Branch of Christianity that developed in the Eastern part of the Roman Empire and gradually separated from the branch of Christianity dominant in Western Europe. | 0 | |
| 7500134384 | Byzantium | The surviving eastern Roman Empire during the medieval centuries | 1 | |
| 7500144078 | Constantinople | New capital city for the Eastern half of the Roman Empire, established in 330ce | 2 | |
| 7500155922 | Constantine | (312-337) Strong emperor toward the end of the Roman Empire who tried with some success to reverse the tide of its ultimate fall. Constantine moved the capital away from Rome to Constantinople and allowed freedom of worship for Christians with the Edict of Milan. | 3 | |
| 7500163854 | Justinian | Byzantine emperor noted for his short lived reconquest of much of the former Western Roman Empire and for his codification of Roman law | 4 | |
| 7500174028 | Body of Civil Law | Justinian's codification of Roman law; made Roman law a coherent basis for political and economic life. | 5 | |
| 7500178347 | Hagia Sophia | Great domed church constructed during the reign of Justinian. | 6 | |
| 7500182863 | Battle of Manzikert | Seljuk Turk victory in 1071 over Byzantium; resulted in loss of the empire's rich Anatolian territory. | 7 | |
| 7500189252 | Cyrillic | an alphabet drived from the Greek alphabet and used for writing Slavic languages. | 8 | |
| 7500227456 | Rurik | Legendary Scandinavian regarded as founder of the first kingdom of Russia based in Kiev in 855 C.E | 9 | |
| 7514626064 | Kiev | Political center of eastern Slav. It established political and social relations with Byzantine Empire. Later it was overthrown by Mongols. | 10 | |
| 7514626065 | Vladimir | Ruler of Russian kingdom of Kiev from 980 to 1015; converted kingdom to Christianity | 11 | |
| 7514629026 | boyars | Russian landholding aristocrats; possessed less political power than their western European counterparts | 12 | |
| 7514634670 | Seljuks and Mongols | Mongols were native in mangolia- lived as minorities in places they live. Eastern mongols invaded byzantine and created the fall. | 13 | |
| 7514634671 | Clovis | king of franks that unified Gaul and established his capital in Paris and founded the Franish Monarchy | 14 | |
| 7514636807 | Charles Martel | christian who led the battle of tours | 15 | |
| 7514639302 | Battle of Tours | defeated the Spanish to increase the advancement of a wider spread of Muslim state to western europe | 16 | |
| 7514639395 | Charlemagne | ruler of carolington empire occupying most of europe. then crowded the new roman emperor by the pope | 17 | |
| 7514644112 | William the Conqueror | duke of normady , led battle against england which when won marked the beginning of a new era in British history | 18 | |
| 7514644113 | Beowolf | an old english poem | 19 | |
| 7514646577 | manorialism | System of economic and political relations between landlords and their peasant laborers during the Middle Ages; involved a hierarchy of reciprocal obligations that exchanged labor for access to land. | 20 | |
| 7514646578 | three field system | One-third of land left unplanted each year to increase fertility | 21 | |
| 7514650480 | moldboard | Heavy plow introduced in northern Europe during the Middle Ages; permitted deeper cultivation of heavier soils. | 22 | |
| 7514650481 | feudalism | Relationships among the military elite during the Middle Ages; greater lords provided protection to lesser lords in return for military service. | 23 | |
| 7514652496 | vassals | Members of the military elite who received land or a benefice from a lord in return for military service and loyalty. | 24 | |
| 7514652497 | tithe | a tax equal to a tenth of one's income; this idea existed in ancient religions before Christianity; used to help the poor | 25 | |
| 7514654628 | canon law | law of the Church; filled the hole of political authority in early days and later on stopped it from developing | 26 | |
| 7514657320 | excommunication | The most severe penalty for refusing to obey Church laws; if this happened to you (as it did to Holy Roman Emperor Henry 4 - could not be buried on sacred ground and could not receive the sacraments. | 27 | |
| 7514657321 | interdict | a prohibition by the pope that can deprive individual persons, groups, communities, and even nations of all priestly ministry. Thus, they no longer had access to the sacraments of the church. | 28 | |
| 7514669002 | intervestiture | Dispute between the popes and the Holy Roman Emperors over who held ultimate authority over bishops in imperial lands. | 29 | |
| 7514673424 | Pope Urban ll | In The First Crusade he can be seen as one attempt to realize this vision, He was the successor to a legacy of extensive ecclesiastical reform, a legacy unpopular with many powerful people, he tried to reclaim Jerusalem from the Muslims | 30 | |
| 7514677654 | Richard the Lionhearted | Along with phillip II he organized the third crusade(Kings Crusade), the Christians took back acre, muslims kept jerusalem, negotiated a settlement with Saladin to allow Christians access to Jerusalem, Actually perferred Muslim Physicians over Christian ones. | 31 |
