chapter 10
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- Theodora
- Justinian's wife who urged Justinian to change Byzantine law to affect the status of women
- dowry
- money or coods a wife brings to a marriage
- Ivan the terrible
- destroed cities . and murdered his oldest son
- icon
- holy pictures of Jesus, the Virgin Mary, or saints
- Yaroslav the Wise
- ruled a great period in RUssian history. Built many churches and intorduced Russia's forst law code
- Vladimir I
- sent observers to Christian church services and adopted Christianity
- "Greek fire"
- flammable liquid used as a weapon by the Byzantine navy
- Ivan III
- ruled as Great PRince
- heresy
- opinion that conflicts with offical church beliefs
- excommunication
- official edict that bars a person from church membership
- Justinian code
- Collection of laws that formed the basis for Byzantine law under Eperor Justinian
- Rurik
- the leader of the people called Rus
- Vladimir Monomakh
- lead a military campaings against the Polovsy
- czar
- Title taken by Ivan the terrible; Russian for "ceasar"
- iconoclasts
- people who opposed the use of icons in worship
- Pracda Russkia
- the first of Russia's law codes
- "third Rome"
- Moscow; Russian Orthodox interpretation of the city's leading role in bringing spiritual light to the world
- Rus
- people led by Rurik who came to rule Keiv and the Slavic tribes along the Dnieper River
- Hagia Sophia
- a church means "holy wisdom"
- steppe
- large, grassy plain stretching across easter Europe and central Asia that is ideal for agriculture
- boyars
- nobles who advised the prince in each Kievan city
- Ottoman Turks
- began to threaten Byzantine territory after Justinian died which partially caused the fall of the Byzantine empire
- Polovsy
- interfered with Kiev's trade. Turkish people who controlled the area sound of Kiev
- Iconoclastic Controversy
- Debate btwn opponents and defenders of icons in the Byzantine Church; one of the issues that led to the split of the Christian Church
- taiga
- Russian region north of the steppe having great forests, much rainfall, and cold, long winters
- Belisarius
- general of the Byzantine army under Justinian rule
- Cyril and Methodius
- Christian missionaries who tried to teach the Bible to Slavs in central and eastern Europe. and made an alphabet for them
- mosaic
- picutre or design made from small pieces of enamel, glass, or stone
- Justinian
- led Byzantines in a revival to bring the glory and power of the Roman Empire