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| 14690411691 | Nubian Christianity | Christianity was introduced by traders and missionaries. Preserved Christianity for 600 years. | 0 | |
| 14690428116 | Jesus Sutras | The product of Nestorian Christians living in China, these sutras articulate the Christian message using Buddhist and Daoist concepts. | 1 | |
| 14690447110 | Ethiopian Christianity | retained basic Christian theology and rituals, reflected the interests of its African devotees. Believed a large host of evil spirits populate the world | 2 | |
| 14690469479 | Byzantine Empire | (330-1453) The eastern half of the Roman Empire, which survived after the fall of the Western Empire at the end of the 5th century C.E. Its capital was Constantinople, named after the Emperor Constantine. | 3 | |
| 14690497715 | Constantinople | A large and wealthy city that was the imperial capital of the Byzantine empire and later the Ottoman empire, now known as Istanbul | 4 | |
| 14690515578 | Justinian | Byzantine emperor in the 6th century A.D. who reconquered much of the territory previously ruler by Rome, initiated an ambitious building program , including Hagia Sofia, as well as a new legal code | 5 | |
| 14690534756 | Caesaropapism | A political-religious system in which the secular ruler is also head of the religious establishment, as in the Byzantine Empire. | 6 | |
| 14690559246 | Eastern Orthodox Church | Christian followers in the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantine Empire); split from Roman Catholic Church and shaped life in eastern Europe and western Asia | 7 | |
| 14690564111 | Icons | religious images used by eastern christians to aid their devotions | 8 | |
| 14690572205 | prince vladimir of kiev | Grand prince of Kiev (r. 978-1015 C.E.) whose conversion to Orthodox Christianity led to the incorporation of Russia into the sphere of Eastern Orthodoxy. | 9 | |
| 14690574957 | Kievan Rus | State that emerged around the city of Kiev in the ninth century C.E.; a culturally diverse region that included Vikings as well as Finnic and Baltic peoples. The conversion of Vladimir, the grand prince of Kiev, to Orthodox Christianity in 988 had long-term implications for Russia. | 10 | |
| 14690582836 | Charlemagne | King of the Franks (r. 768-814); emperor (r. 800-814). Through a series of military conquests he established the Carolingian Empire, which encompassed all of Gaul and parts of Germany and Italy. Illiterate, though started an intellectual revival. | 11 | |
| 14690589349 | Holy Roman Empire | Loose federation of mostly German states and principalities, headed by an emperor elected by the princes. It lasted from 962 to 1806. | 12 | |
| 14690603486 | Roman Catholic Church | Church established in western Europe during the Roman Empire and the Middle Ages with its head being the bishop of Rome or pope. | 13 | |
| 14690612963 | Western Christendom | Split in 1054 C.E. on account of differences in church leadership, languages, religious images and the filioque. | 14 | |
| 14690617668 | Cecilia Penifader | An illiterate peasant woman (1297-1344) from the English village of Brigstock, whose life provides a window into the conditions of ordinary rural people even if her life was more independent and prosperous than most. | 15 | |
| 14690619925 | Crusades | A series of holy wars from 1096-1270 AD undertaken by European Christians to free the Holy Land from Muslim rule. | 16 |
