AP World History- Unit 3 Byzantine Empire/ Kievan Rus

The capital of the eastern half of the Roman Empire; renamed to Constantinople

Justinian's collection of laws; remained a foundation of legal knowledge in Europe until the nineteenth century

Byzantine emperor who spoke Greek rather than Latin; he also managed to greatly reduce the power and influence of the Sassanids

Byzantine emperor who defeated the Bulgars

Battle where the Byzantine forces defeated the Bulgars under Basil II

Empire that grew from the eastern half of Rome; Conquered parts of Asia, Europe, and North Africa

Byzantine emperor who built the Hagia Sophia, wrote law codes, and expanded the empire

Battle where the Seljuk Turks defeated Byzantine forces

Series of military expeditions where Christians went to seek control of their Holy Land from the Muslims

People who attacked the Byzantine empire from France

People Northeastern Europe (Russia, Ukraine, Serbia, etc.)

Group of people from Scandinavia who built the first Russian civilization and took over the Slavs

Name of Viking Rulers

Controversial practice of opposing the worship of images and icons by getting rid of all of them

Christian church built by Justinian the Great that became a focal point of Constantinople's architecture

A government where there is no separation between the state and the church

Head of the church

Religious buildings where people devote their life's to worship

Famous missionary of Christianity who made the Cyrillic alphabet

Separation of the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church

Split from the Roman Catholic Church and became big in Southeastern Europe and Russia

Byzantine's offer to peasants their freedom if they agreed to join the imperial military service

Alphabet made by Cyril to help Russians and other Slavs read the Bible

Bible's decorated with colored illustrations

Turkic people originally from Central Asia that had lots of conflicts with the Byzantine Empire

University that trained students to work in the bureaucracy among other things; also dominated by Christianity

A large stadium like the Coliseum in Rome in the Byzantine Empire

Viking ruler who first settled Kievan Rus

River flowing from Russia to the Black Sea

First Russian settlement by the Vikings

Viking nobles

Ruler of Kievan Rus that brought Christianity

Ruler of Kievan Rus that promoted education and codified the legal system

Kieran Rus legal system; means "Russian Justice"

Capital city of the Byzantine Empire; named after Constantine

Narrow body of water that connects the Black Sea to the Mediterranean; Constantinople was located there