People
Places
Government and Politics
Religion
Times and People
100
Justinian
What is the 6th century Byzantine emperor who rebuilt Constantinople and codified Roman law?
100
Hagia Sophia
What is the great domed church constructed during the reign of Justinian.
100
Body of Civil Law
What is Justinian's codification of Roman law.
100
Icons
What is images of religious figures venerated by Byzantine Christians.
100
1453
When did Constantinople fall to the Turks?
200
Cyril and Methodius
What is Byzantine missionaries sent to convert eastern Europe and the Balkans. Made Slavic written script.
200
Bulgaria
What is the country that contained the Slavic kingdoms in the Balkans. Defeated by Basil II in 1014.
200
Boyars
What is Russian landholding aristocrats that possessed less political power than their western European counterparts.
200
Iconoclasm
What is the breaking of images and religious controversy of the 8th century to suppress icon veneration.
200
Belisarius
What is the Byzantine general responsible for much of the military success during Justinian's reign.
300
Vladimir I
What is the ruler of Kiev who converted kingdom to Orthodox Christianity.
300
Manzikert
What is the Seljuk Turk victory in 1071 over Byzantium resulting in a loss of the empire's rich Anatolian territory.
300
Tartars
What is Mongols who conquered Russian cities during the 13th century; left Russian church and aristocracy inact.
300
Russian Orthodoxy
What is the Russian form of Christianity brought from Byzantine empire.
300
The 4th century C.E.
What is the beginning of the Byztantium empire, with the founding of Constantinople?
400
Rurik
Who is the legendary Scandinavian who became the first king of Kievan Rus'?
400
Kiev
What is the commercial city of Ukraine that became the center for a kingdom that flourished until the 12th century.
400
Greek
What is the official language of the eastern empire during the reign of Justinian.
400
Patriarch
What is the leader of the Russian church in the Russian Orthodoxy.
400
Twelfth century
What is the beginning of the Kievan decline?
500
The Bulgars
What people provided the most serious challenge to Byzantine authority in the Balkan peninsula?
500
Constantinople
What is the capital of the Byzantine empire and its commercial center.
500
Byzantine Empire
What is the eastern half of the Roman Empire that survived after the fifth century?
500
Types of art linked to religion.
What is domed buildings, colored mosaics, and painted icons?
500
Fifteenth century
What is the time where Russia regained independence and power?
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