Byzantine Flashcards
Paintings or sculptures of sacred figures
Icons
Pictures created with tiny colored tiles of glass, stone, or clay fitted together and cemented in place
Mosaics
Eastern church turned into
Orthodox Church
Eastern Roman Empire
Byzantine Empire
Paintings or sculptures of sacred figures
Icons
Or church officials, found sacred images useful for teaching people about Christianity
Clergy
Vikings in the Russian area
Rus
During the height of Kievan Rus’s power and prestige, the ruler was
Yaroslav the Wise
Written alphabet for the Slavic language
Cyrillic alphabet
A Russian hero
Alexander Nevsky
King of Wessex
Alfred the grate
Middle Ages or?
Medieval
Spreading of Christianity to England and Ireland
Christendom
Gregory the grate did what to the pope
Gave him power
Or voluntary separation from society to dedicate one’s life to God
Monasticism