Byzantine Empire
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- Cyrillic Alphabet
- The basis for many Slavic languages
- Justinian Code
- A code of law created by Justinian
- Emperor Leo III
- Byzantine emperor who founded Syrian dynasty and sucessfully avoided Arab invasions
- Patriarch
- Leading bishop of the east
- Bellisarius
- Justinian's general
- Hagia Sophia
- The beautiful church built by Justinian
- Iconoclast
- Icon-Breaker
- Theodora
- Justinian's wife
- Eastern Orthodox
- A sect of the religion of Christianity
- Icon
- Religious images used by eastern Christians to worship their religions
- Hippodrome
- The stadium built by Justinian
- Justinian
- A key emperor in the Byzantine empire
- Procopius
- The historian who wrote down the life of Justinian
- Nika Revolt
- A revolt against the Blues and the Greens in Constantinople
- Schism
- Split or fight amongst a certain social group