Chapter 9 Vocab from the textbook:
World Civilizations: The Global Experience, Fifth Edition by Peter N. Stearns
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| 103550925 | Balkans | People who lived in southeastern Europe; Byzantine Christians; taken over by Muslim Ottomans | 0 | |
| 103550926 | Hagia Sophia | Most famous example of Byzantine architecture, it was built under Justinian I and is considered one of the most perfect buildings in the world. | 1 | |
| 103550927 | Huns | Warlike people who migrated from Eastern Europe into territory controlled by Germanic tribes, forcing them to move into areas controlled by Rome | 2 | |
| 103550928 | icons | Religious images used by eastern christians to aid their devotions | 3 | |
| 103550929 | Constantinople | Previously known as Byzantium, Constantine changed the name of the city and moved the capitol of the Roman Empire here from Rome., The capital of the eastern Roman Empire and later of the Byzantine Empire | 4 | |
| 103550930 | Hellenistic Culture | Greek culture blended with Egyptian, Persian and Indian ideas, as a result of Alexander the Great's Empire. | 5 | |
| 103550931 | Tsar | The title given to the monarch of Russia | 6 | |
| 103550932 | 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 | 7 | |
| 103550933 | Sassanian Empire | (227 - 651) Persian Empire which continued Persian traditions but instituted the Zoroastrian religion as the state religion. | 8 | |
| 103550934 | iconoclasm | A challenge to or overturning of traditional beliefs, customs, and values, any movement against the religious use of images | 9 | |
| 103550935 | Vladmir I | Russian ruler who required all slavs to become Christians (Eastern Orthodox) | 10 | |
| 103550936 | Cyrillic alphabet | An alphabet for the writing of Slavic languages, devised in the ninth century A.D. by Saints Cyril and Methodius | 11 | |
| 103550937 | Orthodox Christian Church | Eastern church which was created in 1053 after the schism from the western Roman church; its head is the patriarch of Constantinople. (also called the Byzantine Church) | 12 | |
| 103550938 | Byzantine Empire | A continuation of the Roman Empire in the Middle East after its division in 395 | 13 | |
| 103550939 | Constantine | Emperor of Rome who adopted the Christian faith and stopped the persecution of Christians (280-337) | 14 | |
| 103550940 | Cyril and Methodius | Christian missionaries who tried to teach the Bible to Slavs in central and eastern Europe. and made an alphabet for them | 15 | |
| 103550941 | Russian Orthodoxy | Russian form of Christianity brought from the Byzantine Empire. | 16 |
