Chapter 10_identify
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- Cyril and Methodius
- Christian Missionaries who created an alphabet fir Slavs in central and eastern Europe known as Cyrillic
- "Greek-fire"
- flammable liquid used as a weapon by the Byzantine navy
- Iconoclastic Controversy
- debate between opponents and defenders of icons in the Byzantine Church; one of the issues that led to the split of the Christian church in 1054
- Hagia Sophia
- great, decorative Byzantine church in Constantinople
- Justinian
- ruler of the Byzantine Empire whose accomplishments made this one of the greatest periods in Byzantine history
- Justinian Code
- collection of laws that formed the basis for Byzantine law under Emperor Justinian
- Vladimir I
- converted to Christianity and ordered all Kievans to become Christians
- Pravda Russkia
- Russia's first law code, written by Yaroslav I
- Rus
- people led by Rurik who came to rule Kiev and the Slavic tribes along the Dnieper River
- Theodora
- Justinian's wife and adviser
- Beisarius
- general of the Byzantine army who led the the troops that crushed the Nika Revolt
- Ivan III
- a.k.a. Ivan the Great; ruled as Great Prince from 1462-1505
- Ottoman Turks
- Asian people who conquered Constantinople in the 1300s and established a large empire
- Ivan the Terrible
- Ivan IV; first czar of Russia who formed a a personal group of civil servants called the oprichnki; his actions were pizzling and cruel
- Polovtsy
- Turkish people who after 1055 controlled the area south of Kiev in Russia
- Rurik
- the leader of the Rus who took control of Novogorod
- Yaroslav the Wise
- Yaroslav I; built many churches and introduced Russia's first law code
- Vladimir Monomakh
- ruler of Kiev from 1113-1125 who brought a breif revival to the city