AP World History ch. 9 Flashcards

213739290	constantinople	capital of Eastern Roman empire	0
213739291	Hagia Sophia	one of Justinian's builder's creations; the most inspiring of all the new structures; a huge church; long lost wonder of the world	1
213739292	Belisarus	brilliant general; made new gains in North Africa and Italy	2
213739293	Icons	A painting of Christ or another holy figure, used as an aid to devotion in the Byzantine and other Eastern Churches.	3
213739294	Rurik	First prince of Kievan Rus'	4
213739295	Yaroslav I	last of the great Keivan princes; issued the legal codification while building many churchesand arranging the translation of religions literature from Greek to Slavic	5
213739296	Balkans	mountainous region	6
213739297	Justinian	emperor; husband of Theodora; tried to reconquer western territory in a last futile effort to restore an empire like that of Rome	7
213739298	Greek fire	new weapon; a type of napalm; mixture of petroleum, quicklime and sulfur	8
213739299	Iconoclasm	action of attacking or rejecting cherished beliefs and institutions or established values and practices	9
213739300	Vladimir I	decendent of Rurik; ruled from 980 to 1015	10
213739301	Boyars	Russian aristocrats	11
213739302	Manzikert	town in Eastern Turkey	12
213739303	Theodora	wife of Justinian, very influential in the government	13
213739304	Bulgaria	Slavic kingdom; periodically pressed Byzantine territory in the Balkans, although at times military success and marriage alliances brought Byzantine control over the feisty Bulgarian kingdom	14
213739305	Cyril and Methodius	missionaries sent to the area of the now Czech and Slovak republics	15
213739306	Tatarz - invaders; a Turkish word	invaders; turkish word	16
213739307	Kiev	Scandinavia traders gradually set up some governments along their trade route, especially in Kiev	17