Chapter 10
Terms
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- Theodora
- Justinian's wife and close advisor
- boyars
- nobles
- taiga
- A major agriculcural region in Russia; has great forests and receives much rainfall
- "third Rome'
- Moscow
- Hagia Sophia
- means "holy wisdom"; It was a great church that was located in Constantinople
- Ottoman Turks
- They captured Adrianople and Constantinople which brought about the end of the Byzantine Empire
- Justinian
- Great Emperor whose greatest contribution to civilization was the preservation of Roman law
- Rurik
- Leader of the Rus people
- mosaic
- A picture or design made from small pieces of enamel, glass, or stone
- Iconoclastic Controversy
- The debate between the opponents and defenders of icons
- Polovtsy
- A Turkish people who controlled the area south of Kiev
- Vladimir I
- Converted to Chrisitanity and then ordered that all Kievan's to become Christians
- oprichniki
- A personal group of civil servants who arrested boyers and gave their lands to Ivan the Terrible's supporters
- calligraphy
- Style of fine handwriting
- Cyril and Methodius
- Christain missionaries who tried to teach the Bible to Slavs
- Yaroslav the Wise
- Yaroslav I; Introduced Russia's first law code
- dowry
- money or goods a wife brought to a husband at marriage
- icon
- a holy picture of Jesus, the Virgin Mary, or the saints
- Iconoclasts
- People who believed that having icons in church was the same as worshipping idols
- "Greek Fire"
- A chemical weapon, when sprayed or thrown onto enemy ships, the liquid burst into flames, setting them on fire
- Belisarius
- Geberal of the Justinian
- Ivan the Terrible
- murdered his oldest son
- czar
- caesar
- Pravda Russkia
- (The "Russian Justice") Russia's 1st law code
- excommunication
- An excommunicated person cannot be a member of the church any more
- Justinian Code
- A 4 part collection of the laws of the Roman Empire 1st Part: the Code- contained useful Roman laws, 2nd part: the Digest- summarized Roman legal opinions, 3rd part: the Institutes- was a guide for law students, 4th part: the Novellae- Contained laws passed after A.D. 534
- Cyrillic
- alphabet created for the Slavs by Cyril and Methodius
- heresy
- An opinion that conflicts with official church beliefs
- steppe
- A grassy, mostly treeless plain in Eastern Europe and Central Asia that has black, fertile soil that is ideal for agriculture
- Ivan III
- Also called Ivan the Great; 1st ruler of the independent state called Russia; His rule began a long tradition of absolute monarchy