Byzatine/Russia
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- justinian
- increased the size of the byzatine empire by sending general belisarious to conquer for the land back; north africa rome, italy, and spain
- patriach
- pope in eastern orthodox religion
- vikings
- people that lived in northern russia and went to byzatine for food. merged into the first russians.
- czar/tzar
- ceasar
- oleg
- noble that moves capital city south to Kiev because it made trade and travel easier
- vladimir
- grandson of olga; studied all religions to decide best one: eastern othrodox
- khante of the golden harde
- the city named after khan rulers
- cyrillic alphabet
- alphabet for the slavs and the vikings; common so everyone could understand
- batu khan
- mongol leader that takes over kiev and rules for 200 years
- eastern orthodox
- christianity that the east of the byzatine became after the schism
- nika rebellion
- rebellion in the hippodrome against justinian to try and overthrow him; stopped by army
- novgrod
- first city of russia; made by chief rurik
- prince ivan I
- prince in moscow; put down rebelions; became a tax collector
- theodora
- justinians wife; not really liked by the public because she was a former actress who werent considered respectful; stood up for many womens rights and never forgot where she came from
- slavs
- people that lived in the forest region north of the black sea/ traded with byzatine; began to adopt culture
- alexander nevsky
- prince/military hero; convices others to cooperate with the nobels and put down revolts
- chengis khan
- united mongols to invade russia; divides land for four kids
- icon
- something people would pray to in a church; symbol of religion/faith
- hippodrome
- stadium built by justian that help bread and circuses... help nika rebellion
- belisarius
- general that conquered for the gain of most of former rome into the byzantine empire under justinian and theodora
- schism
- split in byzatine between catholic churches
- mongols
- tribes from asia
- iconaclasts
- people sent to destroy icons in churched to ruin practice of religion
- ivan III
- expanded the teritory of moscow and called himself czar/tzar = ceasar
- hagia sophia
- large church in present day turkey
- kiev
- new capital city of russia; became small kingdom
- boyars
- the wealthy
- procopius
- wrote book on emeror/emeress's lives... didnt publish until dead; wrote of how bad they were; didnt like them very much
- princess olga
- rules kiev and became christian because of constantinople
- chief rurik
- viking chief that made novgrod
- emperor leo III
- banned use of icons; doesnt like them being worshipped more than him