Chapter 7 (Byzatine Empire And Kievan Rus)

Question 1

Byzantium

Answer 1

The original name of a city in Byzantine Empire that was made into the capital city

Question 2

Constantinople

Answer 2

The capital of the Byzantine empire named by emperor Constantine, became center of trade and great wealth

Question 3

Byzantine Empire

Answer 3

Eastern half of Roman empire

Question 4

Bosporus strait

Answer 4

Constantinople located on the European side of this

Question 5

Justinian 1

Answer 5

Ruled 527-565, oversaw revitalization or Constantinople and revival of legal traditions with his wife Theodora

Question 6

Hagia Sophia

Answer 6

A Christian church with a dome that became a focal point of the city’s architecture

Question 7

Corpus Iuris Civilis (Body of Civil Law)

Answer 7

Aka Justinians Code, was a collection of laws which remained a foundation of legal knowledge in Europe

Question 8

Bulgars

Answer 8

Turkish people orig from Central Asia who took over much of the Balkans

Question 9

Heraclius

Answer 9

Byzantine emperor who ruled 610-641, spoke Greek rather than Latin, focused on resisting invasions and reducing power of Sassanids

Question 10

Iconoclasm

Answer 10

Controversial practice of opposing the veneration of religious images and icons (Leo 3 ordered all images/paintings in churches be covered or destroyed)

Question 11

Battle of Kleidon

Answer 11

1014, Byzantine forces defeat the Bulgars

Question 12

Theocracy

Answer 12

No separation between the state and the chirch

Question 13

Patriarch

Answer 13

When emperor is appointed the head of the church (sometimes dictated what sermons should be delivered)

Question 14

Monasteries

Answer 14

Religious communities, monks lived here but it didn’t become a center of education because iconoclasm

Question 15

Schism

Answer 15

Separation, Christianity was split into Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Church

Question 16

Theme system

Answer 16

Offered by government where peasants would get their freedom if they agreed to join the imperial military

Question 17

Illuminated manuscripts

Answer 17

From the Bible, decorated with colored illustrations and flecked with silver and gold

Question 18

University of Constantinople

Answer 18

Founded 850, many students were trained for service in vast Byzantine bureaucracy while others copied classical writings from Ancient Greece/Rome

Question 19

Hippodrome

Answer 19

Large stadium like the coliseum in Rome

Question 20

Battle of Manzikert

Answer 20

Seljuk Turks defeated Byzantine forfes

Question 21

Normans

Answer 21

From northern France, took control of Sicily and southern Italy from Byzantine’s in 1071

Question 22

Crusades

Answer 22

Series of military expeditions in which knights and commoners from Western Europe traveled to Levant with hopes of seizing control for Christianity

Question 23

Vikings

Answer 23

From Scavandia moved to England, Western Europe, and Slavic territory

Question 24

Dnieper River

Answer 24

Europes fourth longest River, Vikings moved along this river

Question 25

Rus

Answer 25

Viking rulers called this

Question 26

Russia

Answer 26

Rus became the source of this name

Question 27

Oleg

Answer 27

A Viking ruler where under him a settlement on the Dnieper River became the Kievan Rus

Question 28

Kievan Rus

Answer 28

Aka principality of Kiev, formed under Oleg, it was a collection of city states

Question 29

Boyars

Answer 29

Nobles who elected the grand prince, had to be Viking military leaders and served as a war council

Question 30

Russkaya Pravada

Answer 30

“Russian Justice”, a legal system that confided with Yaroslav the wise