Byzantium Becomes the New Rome I
Byzantium Becomes the New Rome II
Russians Adopt Byzantine Culture
Turkish Empires Rise in Anatolia
100

The body of Roman civil law collected and organized by order of the Byzantine emperor Justinian around A.D. 534 ...

Answer: Justinian Code.

100

The taking away of a person’s right of membership in a Christian church ...

Answer: excommunication.

100

Landowning nobles of Russia ...

Answer: boyars.

100

A Turkish group who migrated into the Abbasid Empire in the 10th century and established their own empire in the 11th century ...

Answer: Seljuks.

200

The Cathedral of Holy Wisdom in Constantinople, built by order of the Byzantine emperor Justinian ...

Answer: Hagia Sophia.

200

A split or division – especially a formal split within a Christian church ...

Answer: schism.

200

A Russian emperor (from the Roman title Caesar) ...

Answer: czar.

200

Sultan of the Seljuk Empire, 1072-92 ...

Answer: Malik-Shah I.

300

A principal bishop in the eastern branch of Christianity ...

Answer: patriarch.

300

An incendiary used by the Byzantines to set fire to enemy ships, etc.

Answer: Greek fire.

300

Russian prince, warrior, and statesman; Grand Prince of Vladimir, 1252-63 ...

Answer: Alexander Nevsky.

300

Turkish slaves who served as soldiers and bodyguards in the Abbasid Empire ...

Answer: mamelukes.

400

A religious image used by eastern Christians ...

Answer: icon.

400

(in ancient Greece and Rome) a course or circus for horse races and chariot races ...

Answer: hippodrome.

400

Grand prince of Russia, 980-1015; first Christian ruler of Russia ...

Answer: Vladimir.

400

A prime minister in a Muslim kingdom or empire ...

Answer: vizier.

500

One of the eastern Christians who destroyed religious images in churches during the eighth and ninth centuries ...

Answer: iconoclast.

500

An alphabet for the writing of Slavic languages, devised in the ninth century by Saints Cyril and Methodius ...

Answer: Cyrillic alphabet.

500

Princess of Kiev, Orthodox saint ...

Answer: Olga of Kiev.

500

A significant military conflict that took place in 1071 between the Byzantine Empire and the Seljuk Turks, resulting in a devastating defeat for the Byzantines ...

Answer: Battle of Manzikert.

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