Geography
These provided Kievan Rus with transportation and food.
What are Rivers?
Roman emperor who moved the capital city of Rome to Byzantium.
Who is Constantine?
The massive and beautiful church created by Justinian.
What is the Hagia Sophia?
These features made Constantinople a powerful center of the Byzantine Empire.
What are Natural protection from attack, its deep harbor, located along major trade routes
Considered the greatest Byzantine Emperor. Developed a written code of law.
Who is Justinian?
This was The Byzantine's equivalent of the Colosseum.
What is the Hippodrome?
When the ground is permanently frozen, even after winter.
What is permafrost?
This leader unified Russia and drove out the Mongols.
Who is Ivan the III / Ivan the Great?
Head of the Eastern church.
Who is the patriarch?
Due to lacking this feature Russia had difficulty trading in the winter.
What are Warm Water Ports?
Who convinced Justinian not to flee but to stay and fight during the Nika Riot
Who is Theodora?
This was created to help spread Orthodox Christianity from the Byzantine to Russia.
Most people in Russia live in this region.
What is the Southwest.
What made Constantinople a powerful center of the Byzantine Empire?
Natural protection from attack, its deep harbor, located along major trade routes
To be formally banned from the church, sacraments.
What is excommunicated?
The Byzantines preserved works from these two cultures by copying them and illustrating them?
What are Greek and Roman?
This is an especially cold area of Russia where agriculture is very difficult.
What is Siberia?
This person brought Orthodox Christianity to Russia.
Who is Vladimir?
These two groups came together and formed Kievan Rus.
Who are the Slavs and the Vikings/Rus?
What are the Silk Roads, Trans-Saharan Trade Routes, The Mediterranean Sea Complex, The Indian Ocean Complex?
These three leaders are known for having killed people who disagreed with them.
Who is: Theadora, Justinian, Ivan the Terrible
This is the term used to describe the split between the Eastern and Western churches.
What is the Great Schism?
Russia was inspired by Byzantine Architecture. This can be seen in the domes of what structure?
What is St. Basil's Cathedral?