AP World History Ch. 13 Flashcards

298794946	Hagia Sofia	was a huge new church that Justinian ordered to be built. It was an achievement for both engineering and architecture, because of the size of its large dome roof.	0
298794947	Belisarius	a brilliant general who fought under Justinian. He helped gain land in north Africa and Italy, both of which they soon lost, due to foreign invaders.	1
298794948	Greek Fire	a mixture of petroleum, quicklime, and sulfur, which helped the Byzantine Empire to beat back the Arabs during a major siege of the capital in 717-718.	2
298794949	Bulgaria	a Slavic kingdom that pressed Byzantine territory in the Balkans, even though the Byzantine Empire sometimes had control of it.	3
298794950	Icon	paintings of the saints and other religious figures, often richly ornamented. Byzantine art was distinct in the way that they elaborated richly colored religious mosaics.	4
298794951	Cyril and Methodius	missionaries that were sent by the Byzantine government in 864, to the area which is now Czech and Slovak republics. They devised a written language derived from Greek letters, which are today are used as the Slavic language.	5
298794952	Kiev	a city in which one of the first Scandinavian governments was set up, by Scandinavian traders.	6
298794953	Vladimir l	a Rurik descendant who ruled the prosperous trading center kingdom of Kievan Rus' from 980 to 1015, and converted the kingdom to Christianity.	7
298794954	Russian Orthodox	developed as a church as a result of Vladimir I's decision to convert his kingdom and everyone in it to Christianity.	8
298794955	Yaroslav	the last of the great Kievan princes. He issued legal codification, built many churches, and arranged the translation of religious literature from Greek to Slavic.	9
298794956	Boyars	Russian aristocrats who negotiated with Kievan princes, but did not have much political power.	10
298794957	Tartars	a Turkish word, adopted by Russian tradition. It was used to describe the invaders who were so quickly despised.	11