AP World History Chapter 9 Flashcards

14914393097	Byzantine Empire	Eastern half of Roman Empire following collapse of western half of old empire. maintained Mediterranean culture, particularly greek. Its capital was at Constantionople	0
14914393098	Hagia Sophia	Most famous example of Byzantine architecture. Was built under Justinian I and is consider one of the most perfect buildings in the world. is also a huge church	1
14914393099	Belisarius	One of Justinians most important military commanders during period of reconquest of Western Europe, commanded in north africa and Italy	2
14914393100	icons	a conventional religious painting in oil on a small wooden panel, venerated in the eastern orthodox church	3
14914393101	Rurik	Legendary Scandinavian regarded as founder of the first kingdom of Russia based in Kiev in 855	4
14914393102	yuroslav I	last of the great Kievan monarchs; issued legal condification based on format code developed in Byzantine	5
14914393103	Balkan Peninsula	A large peninsula in southern Europe bounded by the Black,Aegen, and Adriatic Seas	6
14914393104	Justinian	Byzantine emperor who held the eastern frontier of his empire against the Persians	7
14914393105	Greek Fire	Byzantine weapon consisting of mixture of chemicals like sulfur petrolruem and quicklime, that ignites when exposed to water	8
14914393106	Iconoclasm	the breaking of images; religious controversy of the 8th century. the Byzantine empire attempted but failed to surpress icon veneration	9
14914393107	Vladimir I	Grand prince of Kiev who converted to orthodox christianity and made it the state religion; one of the first czars	10
14914393108	Boyards	Russian landholding aristocrats. Possesed less political power than their western European counterparts	11
14914393109	Battle of Manzikert	Battle between the Byzantine Empire and Seljuk Turks in 1071; byzantine lost	12
14914393110	Theodora	The wife of Justinian; improved the status of women in the Byzantinian Empire	13
14914393111	Bulgaria	Slavic Kingdom in northern portions of Balkan Peninsula that presented a major change to Byzantine Empire	14
14914393112	Cyril and Methodius	Byzantine missionaries sent to convert eastern euproe and the balkans; created the slavic written script, cyrillic	15
14914393113	Russian Orthodoxy	Russian form of christianity imported from Byzantine Empire and combined with local religion	16
14914393114	Tartars	Mongols; captured russian cities and largely destroyed Kieven state in 1236; left russian orthodoxy and aristocracy in tact	17