Chapter 9 Vocab Flashcards

Chapter 9 Vocab from the textbook:
World Civilizations: The Global Experience, Fifth Edition by Peter N. Stearns

103550925	Balkans	People who lived in southeastern Europe; Byzantine Christians; taken over by Muslim Ottomans	0
103550926	Hagia Sophia	Most famous example of Byzantine architecture, it was built under Justinian I and is considered one of the most perfect buildings in the world.	1
103550927	Huns	Warlike people who migrated from Eastern Europe into territory controlled by Germanic tribes, forcing them to move into areas controlled by Rome	2
103550928	icons	Religious images used by eastern christians to aid their devotions	3
103550929	Constantinople	Previously known as Byzantium, Constantine changed the name of the city and moved the capitol of the Roman Empire here from Rome., The capital of the eastern Roman Empire and later of the Byzantine Empire	4
103550930	Hellenistic Culture	Greek culture blended with Egyptian, Persian and Indian ideas, as a result of Alexander the Great's Empire.	5
103550931	Tsar	The title given to the monarch of Russia	6
103550932	Justinian	Byzantine emperor in the 6th century A.D. who reconquered much of the territory previously ruler by Rome, initiated an ambitious building program , including Hagia Sofia, as well as a new legal code	7
103550933	Sassanian Empire	(227 - 651) Persian Empire which continued Persian traditions but instituted the Zoroastrian religion as the state religion.	8
103550934	iconoclasm	A challenge to or overturning of traditional beliefs, customs, and values, any movement against the religious use of images	9
103550935	Vladmir I	Russian ruler who required all slavs to become Christians (Eastern Orthodox)	10
103550936	Cyrillic alphabet	An alphabet for the writing of Slavic languages, devised in the ninth century A.D. by Saints Cyril and Methodius	11
103550937	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)	12
103550938	Byzantine Empire	A continuation of the Roman Empire in the Middle East after its division in 395	13
103550939	Constantine	Emperor of Rome who adopted the Christian faith and stopped the persecution of Christians (280-337)	14
103550940	Cyril and Methodius	Christian missionaries who tried to teach the Bible to Slavs in central and eastern Europe. and made an alphabet for them	15
103550941	Russian Orthodoxy	Russian form of Christianity brought from the Byzantine Empire.	16