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| 106373317 | Byzantium | the Christian, Easter, Roman Empire, which lasted until 1453, when Constantinople was captured by the Ottoman Turks. Constantine established it in AD 324, and called it the New Rome and it remained a united empire until Rome fell in AD 476 | |
| 106373318 | Theocracy | a state ruled by divine guidance | |
| 106373319 | Icons | religious images regarded as objects of veneration | |
| 106373320 | Iconoclasm | the destruction of religious images | |
| 106373321 | Iconophile | persons who favored the production of religious images as an aid to devotion | |
| 106373322 | Justinian | the founder of the New Rome which marks the beginning of the Byzantine Empire and the end of the Late Roman Empire. He codified the Roman law. | |
| 106373323 | Mysticism | the experience of union or direct communication with ultimate reality known as God or Spiritual Truth | |
| 106373324 | Pendentives | a set of curved triangles, which achieve the transition from a rectangular polygonal opening to the round base of a dome or a supporting drum | |
| 106373325 | Drum | a circular wall that supports a dome | |
| 106373326 | Squinches | a system shaped like an octagon that supports a dome using arches, corbels or lintels to bridge the corners of the supporting wall and from the octagon inscribed in the square. | |
| 106375093 | Chi-ro | a monogram of Christ | |
| 106375095 | Greek cross | one in which the arms are equal | |
| 106375096 | Latin cross | has along vertical piece and shorter arms | |
| 106375097 | Pantocrater | the image of God as the Creator of the Universe | |
| 106375098 | Pillar | a generic term for a vertical support (column, pier or pilaster) | |
| 106375099 | Cupola | a drum with a shallow cap | |
| 106375100 | Gallery | a second story over the side aisles of a church below the clerestory | |
| 106375101 | Altarpiece | a panel, sculpted or painted, situated above and behind an altar | |
| 106375102 | Ambulatory | the passageway around apse and choir of a church | |
| 106375103 | Choir | the space reserved for the clergy and the singers in a church usually east of the transept but sometimes extending into the nave | |
| 106375104 | Cloisonné | a process of enameling by putting the ground glass into little cells mane of wires and fused in a kiln | |
| 106375105 | Hieratic | a fixed stylized method of representation, often determined by religious principles or ideas | |
| 106375106 | Mandorla | an almond shaped halo appearing around the head of a holy figure | |
| 106375107 | Psalter | a book containing the Psalms | |
| 106375108 | Rotunda | circular area under a dome |
