Vocabulary
Vocabulary
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A holy picture of Jesus, the Virgin Mary, or the saints.
What is an icon?
100
Nobles.
What is a boyar?
100
The code Justinian made.
What is the Justinian Code?
100
Has black, fertile soil. Very grassy and nearly treeless.
What is the steppe?
100
Another name for Caesar.
Who is czar?
200
Threatened Byzantine territory.
Who are the Ottoman Turks?
200
An opinion that conflicts with that of the church.
What is a heresy?
200
An experienced commander who became the general of the Byzantine army.
Who is Belisarius?
200
North of the steppe.
What is the taiga?
200
Moscow was considered this.
What is the "third Rome"?
300
A picture or design made of small pieces of enamel, glass, and stone.
What is a mosaic?
300
Gifts the wife brought to the husband at marriage.
What is a dowry?
300
Ships were equipped with this chemical weapon.
What is "Greek fire"?
300
The church the Russian worshipped.
What is the Russian Orthodox Church?
300
The religion that the Mongols converted Russia to.
What is Islamic?
400
Christian missionaries.
Who are Cyril and Methodius?
400
The debate between the opponents and defenders of icons.
What is the Iconoclastic Controversy?
400
The emperor that revived the Byzantine Empire.
Who is Justinian?
400
Ruled from A.D. 1019 to 1054 in Russia.
Who is Yaroslav the Wise?
400
Turkish people who interfered with Kiev's trade.
Who are the Polovtsy?
500
A person who believed that having idols in their church was the same as worshipping them.
What is an iconoclast?
500
When a person is banned from a church.
What is an excommunication?
500
On of the world's greatest building.
What is the Hagia Sophia?
500
Ruled over the people named Rus.
Who is Rurik?
500
Laid the foundation for a new Russian state and killed his oldest son.
Who is Ivan the Terrible?
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