Chapter 9 key terms Flashcards

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11472266	Orthodox Christian church	Eastern Church ( known as the Byzantine church)	0
11472267	Constantine	strong emperor toward the end of the Roman Empire, tried to reverse the fall	1
11472268	Huns	Nomadic tribes that pused through centeral Europe	2
11472269	Sassanian Empire	Persian Empire who continued Persian traditions, Zoroastian religion	3
11472270	Procopius	Justinian's Historian in the Byzantine Empire	4
11472271	Greek Fire	Incendiary material used to burn on water	5
11472272	Czar	emperors of Russia	6
11472273	Cyrillic alphabet	Alphabet named after Saint Cyril, converted Slavs to Orthodox	7
11472274	Rurik	Scandinavian who founded Kiev ( Russia)	8
11472275	Justinian	Byzantine emperor, failed to reconquer western portions of empire, codified Roman law	9
11472276	Hagia Sophia	Great domed church constructed under Justinian	10
11472277	Body of Civil Law	Justinian's codification of Roman law	11
11472278	Bulgaria	Slavic kingdom in the Balkans, constant pressure by the Byzantine Empire	12
11472279	Icons	images of religious figures in the Orthodox church	13
11472280	Iconoclasm	breaking of icons, iconclastic contraversy	14
11472281	Battle of Manzikert	Seljuk Turk victory over Byzantium	15
11472282	Cyril/ Methodius	Byzantine Missionaires sent to convert Europe and Balkans	16
11472283	Kiev	Commerical city in Ukraine established by Scandinavians	17
11472284	Vladimir	Ruler of Kiev, coverted to Orthodox	18
11472285	Russian Orthodox	Russian form of Christianity brought by the byzantine empire	19
11472286	Boyars	Russian landholding aristocrats	20
11472287	Tatars	Mongols who conquered Russian cities, invaded	21
11472288	Byzantine Empire	Eastern portion of Roman Empire which survived, capital is Constantinople	22
11472289	Constantinople	Capital of Byzantine Empire	23