VOCAB
PEOPLE
BYZANTINE
CULTURE & GEO
RUSSIA & RANDOM
100
An architectural wonder in Constantinople
What is the Hagia Sophia?
100
A Byzantine city was named after him
Who was Constantine?
100
An important city at the 'crossroads' of Asia & Europe
What was Constantinople?
100
Travel was easy in Eastern Europe because the land was this
What is flat?
100
A landowning noble
boyar
200
A holy image
What is an icon?
200
A dancer who became an empress
Who was Theodora?
200
Massive stone structures that carried water to the city
What are aqueducts?
200
Two European civilizations whose cultural ideas were preserved by the Byzantine Empire
What was Greece & Rome?
200
He believed in extreme absolute rule
Who was Ivan the Terrible?
300
Permanent split in the church
What is a schism?
300
Known as the Bulgar Slayer, he blinded the Bulgarian soldiers and left every 100th man with one eye to lead the others home
Who was Basil II?
300
Constantinople reached its greatest size under him
Who was Justinian?
300
A sea to the northeast of Constantinople
What is the Black Sea?
300
Flat, treeless plains of Russia
What is a steppe?
400
Title of a Russian Ruler; a Caesar
What is a czar?
400
He created a code of laws that was used as the basis of law for many other civilizations
Who was Justinian?
400
Constantine the Great built these around the city for protection
What are walls?
400
A city with a booming economy before the Turks arrived
What is Constantinople?
400
The Russian city of Kiev was influenced by them
What is the Byzantine Empire?
500
An absolute ruler in Russia
What is an autocrat?
500
Constantine was the first emperor to convert to this religion
What was Christianity?
500
Invaders that could not get past the walls at Constantinople
Who were the Huns?
500
The Byzantine Empire is considered this eastern part of this empire
What is the Roman Empire?
500
Modern day name for Constantinople
What is Istanbul?
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