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Justinian

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He ruled for 38 years, was considered Byzantines most ambitious ruler. Wanted to recreate the roman empire and made a code of laws similar to the roman code of laws.

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Byzantine!

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Empire, Constantinople was capital

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Greek fire

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Atomic bomb of the time, made by the Byzantines

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The Nika Revolt

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It took place in January in 532 in Constantinople, against Justinian during a chariot race. Everyone was cheering on their own team, shouting concur, or “Nika”. Suddenly the were all yelling it at him.

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Justinian’s code of laws

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Roman laws he changed for his needs and then established

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Theodora

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Justinian’s wife and queen, was an actress and was therefor seen unfit to rule. Would not flee during the Nika revolts, and died if cancer

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Patriarch

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Highest church official in Constantinople.

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Autocrat

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A sole ruler with complete authority over the people

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Icon

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Sacred image that’s treated as holy itself

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Great schism

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Byzantine emperor Leo bans icons, causing the eastern and western church to split in 2 in 1054

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Ecumenical patriarch

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Universal patriarch

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Papal authority

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Power of pope

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Iconoclasm

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The action of attacking or assertively rejecting cherished beliefs and institutions or established values and practices

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Steppe

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An open, treeless grassland that Nomads traveling through the region used for there cows and horses. It’s one of the three regions of Russia.

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Kiev

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City, where main trade was

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Hagia Sopia

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It was once the centralized church building if the eastern orthodox church, but now it’s a museum

Hagia sophia means “Holy wisdom”, and that was a title for Jesus

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Cyril

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One of the Lord’s that had been sent to Kiev to convert the Slavs to Christianity.

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Cyrillic

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The alphabet used to translate the bible into Slavic

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Czar or Tsar

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Titles of rulers of Russia, means Caesar

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Ivan the terrible

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Ruled for 51 years, had a secret police, was always unstable but really went off his noodle when his wife died. Thought everyone was out to kill him so he killed them first.

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Ivan the great

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He married the last Byzantines emperors niece, and freed Russia from mongols, believed in absolute power.

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Jewish refugees fled western Europe because…

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Of persecution and expulsion

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The Magyars were raiders from the Asian steppes and they settled in…

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Hungary

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The Serbian state reached its height in power under…

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Stefan Dusan

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The south Slav country of Serbia was concord by…

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The ottoman Turks in the 1300’s

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Who died that made Russia feel full of unrest???

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Ivan the terrible

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The Russian language is written in

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The Cyrillic alphabet

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The Mongols who invaded Russian were known as the…

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Golden Hoard

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Ivan the 3rd sometimes refers to himself as…

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tsar, or caesar

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Russia’s rivers linked early russians to…

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The Byzantine empire

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What city was the center of a vital trade network???

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Kiev

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What occurred during the Mongol rule of Russia

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The princes of Moscow gained power and influence

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How did Mongol rule effect Russia’s relation ship with western Europe?

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It isolated Russia from Europe and it’s advances in science and art?

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What tradition did Ivan the terrible introduce that shaped history into the 20th century?

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Extreme absolute power

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Why was Constantinople’s location so safe???

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It was a harbored city on a trade route guarded by water

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What was the one difference between the roman and Byzantine churches before the great schism?

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Byzantines Christians rejected the popes power over them all

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What was an important contribution of the Byzantine empire?

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It’s blending of christianity and greek culture

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Constantinople

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Capital of Roman empire, lasted 1,500 years before it was captured by the Ottomans, was the city with the great defenses

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Who brought Constantinople to its highest peak, and restored the Hagia Sophia after it had been destroyed during riots???

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Justinian

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Corpus Juris Civilis

Body of Civil Law

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Justinian’s code

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Where is Rome located on a map?

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Italy

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Where is Jerusalem located on a map?

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By the red sea

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Where is Constantinople located on a map???

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By the black sea

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Who appointed church officials in Byzantine?

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The king

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What did clergy in the Byzantine empire get to keep doing???

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Marry

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What was the language of the Byzantine church???

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Greek

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There were three regions in Russia, one is the steppe. What are the other two like???

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The northern forests supplied them with wood and game,

The southern part was good farm land. This is where the population grew

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What did the russians copy from the Byzantines?

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The domes of their churches for their own.

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The Golden Hoard

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A Mongol army, know as this for the color of their tents

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How would Russian princes keep mongols at bay??

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Paying them a fee to bit invade and let them rule their own territory

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Which side of Constantinople is Asia minor on???

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East

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What’s the body of water that separates Europe and Asia

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Eps porous strait

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What body of water separates the two sections of Constantinople?

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The north sea.

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