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| 17672771 | Byzantion | greek city in which an empire got its name, A modest market town turned military and economic center of the Byzantine empire | 17672771 | |
| 17672772 | justinian | Byzantine emperor who held the eastern frontier of his empire against the Persians | 17672772 | |
| 17672773 | constantinople | capital of the Byzantine Empire; Byzantinium & Istanbul | 17672773 | |
| 17672774 | theme system | a system thst was an effort to protect and more efficiently govern their empire | 17672774 | |
| 17672775 | ceasaropapist | emperors that dominated the byzantine church | 17672775 | |
| 17672776 | breadbasket of the empire | Egypt, Anatolia, and the lower Danube regions | 17672776 | |
| 17674243 | Byzantine scholars | kept alive the classics of ancient Greece | 17674243 | |
| 17674244 | iconoclasm | the attacking of widely accepted ideas, beliefs | 17674244 | |
| 17674245 | Byzantine monasteries | rules established by saint basil | 17674245 | |
| 17674246 | unequal distribuion of land | weakened he economy and military | 17674246 | |
| 17674247 | Saljuq Turks | Turkish tribe that gained control over the Abbasid empire and fought with Byzantine | 17674247 | |
| 17674248 | Ottoman Turks | Muslims, that took over Constantinople in 1453. | 17674248 | |
| 17674249 | Cyrillic alphabet | an alphabet drived from the Greek alphabet and used for writing Slavic languages | 17674249 | |
| 17674250 | Bulgarians | was in conflict with the byzantine empire though they would adopt thier costums | 17674250 | |
| 17674251 | Kiev | a city along their trade route where Scandinavian traders, militarily superior to the Slavs, set up some governments. | 17674251 |
