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| 245207295 | Arians | At the council of Nicaea, the Arians believed that Jesus was a mortal human. Viewpoint condemned as heresy because Constantine favored the view that Jesus was divine---shows how powerful politics were in religion. | 0 | |
| 245207296 | asceticism | the doctrine that through renunciation of worldly pleasures it is possible to achieve a high spiritual or intellectual state; used my devout individuals that eventually gathered followers and led to monasticism | 1 | |
| 245207297 | Basil the Bulgar-Slayer | A general in Byzantium who turned westa nd crushed the neighboring bulgars after victory at the battle of Kleidion. Expanded the Byzantine empire, brought it wealth, and allowed Byzantine to be dominant in the eastern Mediterranean. | 2 | |
| 245207298 | Basilian monasticism | St. Basil of Caesaria who came up with rules and unified monasticism. The people's religion, help with disasters and inspired piety and devotion. | 3 | |
| 245207299 | battle of Manikert | 1071, demoralizing defeat for Byzantine by Saljuqs that caused Byzantine factions to turn on each other in civil war and allowed for the Saljuqs to take over the breadbasket of the empire, Anatolia. One of the "challenges from the east," led to Byzantium decline. | 4 | |
| 245207300 | Belisarius | Justinian's brilliant general that reconquered most of the classical Roman empire (Italy, Spain, northwestern Africa), but eventually the land was lost as the empire couldn't support it. | 5 | |
| 245207301 | bezant | Byzantine currency, once used as the standard currency in trade in the Mediterranean basin which show the amount of control Byzantine had over the Mediterranean basin trade from 6-12th century. | 6 | |
| 245207302 | Bosporus | Strait that Byzantine controlled that gave it control over maritime affairs; one of the contributing factors of why the empire was successful. | 7 | |
| 245207303 | Byzantine | Modest village that became the imperial capital under Constantine, renamed Constantinople. Faced pressure such as the consolidation of the Sasanid dynasty in Persia and the migrations and travels of nomadic people. | 8 | |
| 245207304 | caesaropapism | System in which the temporal ruler extends his own power to ecclesiastical and theological matters. Such emperors appointed bishops and the Eastern Patriarch, directed the development of liturgical practices, and even aided the recruitment of monks. One of the causes of the schism with Roman Catholicism. | 9 | |
| 245207305 | Constantinople | The capital of the Byzantine empire. | 10 | |
| 245207306 | Council of Nicaea | Christian council that met in 325 to determine the question of the trinity; decided on the divinity of all three persons. Showed power of emperor in Christian religion. | 11 | |
| 245207307 | Corpus iuris civilis | "Body of the Civil Law," written by Justinian; codified Roman law. Later influenced law codes throughout western Europe. | 12 | |
| 245207308 | Cyrillic alphabet | Famous missionary brothers Cyril and Methodius who gave the Slavs an alphabet to make them literate. Stimulated conversion to Orthodox Christianity. | 13 | |
| 245207309 | Eastern Orthodox church | Split with the Roman Catholic church. | 14 | |
| 245207310 | Hagia Sophia | Built by Justinian. Showed wealth of empire, most important tributes to Christianity. | 15 | |
| 245207311 | Hippodrome | An attraction of Constantinople, entertained the people. | 16 | |
| 245207312 | iconoclasm | "the breaking of icons"--showed that imperial role in religion didn't always work. This movement by the imperial government embittered the ordinary church-goer. | 17 | |
| 245207313 | 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 | 18 | |
| 245207314 | Normans | Part of the "challenges from the west" for the Byzantine empire. They set out on crusades that carved out parts of Byzantine; conquered and sacked Constantinople. | 19 | |
| 245207315 | patriarch | title for the heads of the Eastern Orthodox Churches (in Istanbul and Alexandria and Moscow and Jerusalem); St. Basil of Caesara was one of Constantinople. | 20 | |
| 245207316 | Prince Vladimir of Kiev | Converted to Christianity in 989, ordered his people to do the same. Brought Byzantine influence into Russia as well as literacy. | 21 | |
| 245207317 | Saljuqs | Muslim nomadic Turkish people; source of Byzantine downfall. Caused a civil war, took the breadbasket of Byzantine: Anatolia. | 22 | |
| 245207318 | theme system | Broke up large estates for free-peasants, who all got land to work on in exchange for serving in the military for 2 years. , Found in Byzantium. Strengthened the free peasantry by making land available to those who performed military service. | 23 | |
| 245207319 | Theodora | Justinian's wife. Helped build empire. | 24 |
