Week 3 Vocab SS

Question 1

Feudalism

Answer 1

a system in which people were given land and protection by people of higher rank, and worked and fought for them in return.

Question 2

Justinian

Answer 2

Byzantine emperor who held the eastern frontier of his empire against the Persians

Question 3

Hagia Sofia

Answer 3

Hagia Sophia, officially the Hagia Sophia Mosque, is a mosque and a major cultural and historical site in Istanbul, Turkey

Question 4

Cyrillic Alphabet

Answer 4

the alphabet based principally on the Greek uncials that was originally used for writing Old Church Slavonic

Question 5

Manorial System

Answer 5

political, economic, and social system by which the peasants of medieval Europe were rendered dependent on their land and on their lord apart of the feudilism system

Question 6

Great Schism

Answer 6

split the main faction of Christianity into two divisions, Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox

Question 7

Monasticism

Answer 7

a way of living that’s religious, isolated from other people, and self-disciplined

Question 8

Theodora

Answer 8

God’s Gift

Question 9

Justinian’s Code

Answer 9

the legal code of ancient Rome; codified under Justinian; the basis for many modern systems of civil law.

Question 10

Alfred The Greate

Answer 10

King of the West Saxons from 871 to 886.