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| 5217937920 | Constantinople | Capital of the Byzantine Empire |  | 0 |
| 5217940744 | Justinian | Byzantine emperor who held the eastern frontier of his empire against the Persians |  | 1 |
| 5217942474 | Justinian Code | A code of law that standardized laws in the Byzantine Empire. |  | 2 |
| 5217942475 | autocrat | absolute in power or authority | 3 | |
| 5217945159 | Theodora | Justinian's wife; helped him run the empire |  | 4 |
| 5217945160 | patriarch | Highest church official |  | 5 |
| 5217945161 | icon | holy image |  | 6 |
| 5217948803 | Great Schism | in 1054 this severing of relations divided medieval Christianity into the already distinct Eastern (Greek) and Western (Latin) branches. |  | 7 |
| 5217951502 | steppe | Sparse, dry, treeless grassland |  | 8 |
| 5217951503 | Kiev | capital of medieval Russia and of present-day Ukraine |  | 9 |
| 5217953270 | Cyrillic | Relating to the Slavic alphabet derived from the Greek and traditionally attributed to St. Cyril; in modified form still used in modern Slavic languages |  | 10 |
| 5217953271 | Golden Horde | The Mongol armies that invaded Europe in 1237 and ruled Russia for over two centuries | 11 | |
| 5217955461 | Ivan the Great | (1462-1505) The Slavic Grand Duke of Moscow, he ended nearly 200 years of Mongol domination of his dukedom. From then on he worked at extending his territories, subduing the nobles, and attaining absolute power. |  | 12 |
| 5217955462 | tsar | The Russian term for ruler or king; taken from the Roman word caesar. |  | 13 |
| 5217957911 | Ivan the Terrible | (1533-1584) earned his nickname for his great acts of cruelty directed toward all those with whom he disagreed. He became the first ruler to assume the title Czar of all Russia. |  | 14 |
| 5217962561 | Balkan Peninsula | triangular arm of land that juts from southeastern Europe into the Mediterranean |  | 15 |
| 5217962562 | ethnic group | Group of people who share common ancestry, language, religion, customs, or combination of such characteristics |  | 16 |
| 5217964730 | diet | an assembly of nobles where the vote of a single noble could block the passage of a law | 17 | |
| 5217967387 | Golden Bull of 1222 | charter that strictly limited royal power in Hungary |  | 18 |
