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The emperor who collected and codified all laws of the Byzantine age.
Who is Justinian?
This city was conquered and renamed to Istanbul by the Ottomans.
What is Constantinople?
The art, architecture, language, and religion of early Russia was directly influenced by this empire.
What is Byzantine?
A language that combined the Mongolian and Chinese languages.
What is Mandarin?
The fall of the western half of this empire was the first crack in the Roman Catholic Church.
What is the Roman Empire?
The wife of Justinian who was known for her powerful influence at court.
Who is Theodora?
Unlike in the western Roman Empire, most people in the Byzantine Empire spoke this language.
What is Greek?
The long-term impact of the Byzantine Empire on Europe is the spread of this religion into Russia.
What is Eastern Orthodoxy?
The Mongol reunification of Asia reestablished trans-regional trade between Europe and Asia by making travel safer among this trade route.
What are the Silk Roads?
One of the arguments that led to the Great Schism was whether or not to use this during communion.
What is unleavened bread?
Saints Cyril and Methodius were key in the eventual creation of this written type.
What is the Russian Alphabet?
Byzantine law was essentially a continuation of Roman law with this influence.
What is Christian influence?
Before they were politically unified, the Russian peoples were these.
What are Vikings?
At the height of it's territory, the Mongol Empire's western boarder stretched all the way to this body of water.
What is the Caspian Sea?
The Great Schism of 1054 resulted in the creation of this church.
What is the Eastern Orthodox Church?
The prince who ordered a mass baptism of his people in 989 AD when he converted the Russian Empire to Christianity.
Who is Prince Vladimir?
This invention helped Ottomans lay siege to Constantinople in 1453.
What is gunpowder?
The Russian ruler Ivan III claimed that the Russian Empire would be this.
What is the "Third Rome"?
The Mongol Empire didn't last over 80 years because they lacked this.
What is political/religious unity?
The mutual excommunication of the Pope and Patriarch of Constantinople in 1054 defines this event.
What is the Great Schism?
A Mongolian warrior who was the founder of the Mongol Empire.
Who is Genghis Khan?
The structure located next to the Hagia Sophia and the Great Palace where chariot races took place.
What is the Hippodrome?
Before Moscow, this city was the capitol of the Russian Empire.
What is Kiev?
The Ostrogoths, Mongols, and Vikings were all these types of groups.
What is migratory groups?
This basilica was completed in 537 AD by Emperor Justinian. It was the largest cathedral in the world for one thousand years, and it has been said to have "changed the history of architecture."
What is the Hagia Sophia?