Jeography
This mountain range in Russia is seen as the traditional divide between Europe and Asia.
What are the Ural Mountains?
What is Byzantium?
This script is used to write and read the Russian language.
What is Cyrillic?
The center of this faith is in the city of Rome, or Vatican City to be more accurate, where the Pope resides.
What is Western Roman Catholicism?
The most notable emperor of the Eastern Roman empire.
Who is Justinian I?
This is the longest river in Europe.
What is the Volga?
The people of Byzantium considered themselves... as Constantine had moved the capital there.
What is Roman?
This is the word used to describe a king in Russian history.
Czar or Tsar (from Caesar)
This language became more commonly spoken in the Byzantine Empire.
What is Greek?
These images are made from glass or stone.
What is a mosaic?
This mountain range in Eastern Europe ranges from the Czech Republic to Romania.
What are the Carpathians?
This was Emperor Justinian's wife who best embodied the advisory role of women in Byzantine/East Roman society.
Who is Theodora?
This group to the east distantly ruled Russia for nearly 200 years.
Who are the Mongols?
This part of the faith is modernly lead by five national patriarchs.
What is Eastern Orthodox Christianity? Bonus: Guess three nations with a patriarch.
This is a wooden panel that is painted upon.
What is an icon?
This southeast part of Europe is defined by a mountain range and peninsula that extends into the Mediterranean Sea. Natives of the area argue whether they are part of it.
What are the Balkans? (i.e. Balkan Peninsula and Balkan Mountains)
A set of Roman laws adopted by a Byzantine emperor and applied in the Eastern Roman empire.
What is the Justinian Code?
This is considered the earliest capital of the Russian people.
What is Kyiv or Kiev?
Modernly, these Christian priests can marry.
Who are Orthodox priests?
This is a small state ruled by a prince.
What is a principality?
These are the plains that range Russia, south of the tundra.
What are the steppes?
This church was where Byzantine emperors would hold processions, as they were considered the head of the church.
What is the Hagia Sophia?
This act was Ivan III's first step to becoming an independent ruler of Russia.
What is a refusal to pay taxes imposed by invaders?
In the Orthodox faith, they may depict these figures on wooden panels or walls.
Who are saints?
This was the first czar of Russia.
Who is Ivan III (the Third)?