World History Chap. 11 Sec. 1
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- Justinian Code
- Civil laws that decided legal questions that regulated whole areas of Byzantine life. Marriage, slavery, property, inheritance, women's rights and crimes for example. Code served the empire for 900 years.
- Hagia Sophia
- Church that Justinian repaired. Means "Holy Wisdom". Most splendid church in the Christian world.
- Patriarch
- Leading Bishop of the East
- Icon
- Religious images
- Iconoclast
- Icon breakers
- Excommunication
- to outcast
- Schism
- to split apart
- Cyrillic Alphabet
- Alphabet for Slavic languages invented by Cyril and Methodius.
- Constantinople
- Constantine moves Roman Capital to the East. Names Capital after himself.
- Justinian
- Byzantine nobleman who claimed throne and Reunited divided empire and claimed Rome.
- Empress Theodora
- Most powerful woman in Byzantine History. Married to Justinian.
- Hippodrome
- Race Track
- Rhetoric
- The study of how to use spoken or written language effectively.
- Belisarius
- Justinian General who tried to overthrow Justinian.