Byzantine Empire
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- Icon
- a religious painting or sculpture
- Procopius
- Historian to the emperor, wrote a secret history
- Belisarius
- General, recaptured north africa
- Schism
- pope and patriach disagree over religious doctrine
- Cyrillic
- a language that combines slavic and greek
- Theodora
- Justinian's wife
- Nika Rebellion
- Rebellion against Justinian, 532
- Eastern Orthdox
- the form of cathlic that the eastern romans developed
- Patriach
- leader of the church in eastern Rome
- Justinian
- Great emperor, increased the size of byzantine
- Hippodrome
- Built by Justinian, as a source of entertainment for the people
- Emperor leo the third
- banned the use of icons
- Hagia Sophia
- giant cathedral
- Iconoclasts
- a group of people that destroy icons