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The body of Roman civil law collected and organized by order of the Byzantine emperor Justinian around A.D. 534 ...
Answer: Justinian Code.
The taking away of a person’s right of membership in a Christian church ...
Answer: excommunication.
Landowning nobles of Russia ...
Answer: boyars.
A Turkish group who migrated into the Abbasid Empire in the 10th century and established their own empire in the 11th century ...
Answer: Seljuks.
The Cathedral of Holy Wisdom in Constantinople, built by order of the Byzantine emperor Justinian ...
Answer: Hagia Sophia.
A split or division – especially a formal split within a Christian church ...
Answer: schism.
A Russian emperor (from the Roman title Caesar) ...
Answer: czar.
Sultan of the Seljuk Empire, 1072-92 ...
Answer: Malik-Shah I.
A principal bishop in the eastern branch of Christianity ...
Answer: patriarch.
An incendiary used by the Byzantines to set fire to enemy ships, etc.
Answer: Greek fire.
Russian prince, warrior, and statesman; Grand Prince of Vladimir, 1252-63 ...
Answer: Alexander Nevsky.
Turkish slaves who served as soldiers and bodyguards in the Abbasid Empire ...
Answer: mamelukes.
A religious image used by eastern Christians ...
Answer: icon.
(in ancient Greece and Rome) a course or circus for horse races and chariot races ...
Answer: hippodrome.
Grand prince of Russia, 980-1015; first Christian ruler of Russia ...
Answer: Vladimir.
A prime minister in a Muslim kingdom or empire ...
Answer: vizier.
One of the eastern Christians who destroyed religious images in churches during the eighth and ninth centuries ...
Answer: iconoclast.
An alphabet for the writing of Slavic languages, devised in the ninth century by Saints Cyril and Methodius ...
Answer: Cyrillic alphabet.
Princess of Kiev, Orthodox saint ...
Answer: Olga of Kiev.
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.