World history AP Midterm chapter 13 Flashcards

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