AP World History Chapter Nine Vocab. Flashcards
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140196307 | Cyrillic alphabet | an alphabet drived from the Greek alphabet and used for writing Slavic languages | 0 | |
140196308 | boyars | Russian landholding aristocrats; possessed less political power than their western European counterparts | 1 | |
140196309 | Orthodox Christian church | Eastern church which was created in 1053 after the schism from the western Roman church; its head is the patriarch of Constantinople. (also called the Byzantine Church) | 2 | |
140196310 | Bulgaria | Slavic kingdom established in northern portions of Balkan peninsula; constant source of pressure on Byzantine Empire; defeated by Emperor Basil II in 1014 | 3 | |
140196311 | Byzantine Empire | Eastern half of Roman Empire following collapse of western half of old empire; retained Mediterranean culture, particularly Greek; later lost Palestine, Syria, and Egypt to Islam; capital at Constantinople | 4 |