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Western Civ Vocab

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Dowry
Money or goods given by the wife when they wed
Greek Fire
A burning liquid weapon used on Byzantine ships
Patriarch
The male head of a tribe or community
Icons
Religious works of art
Iconoclasts
People who did not approve of Icons and destroyed them
Iconoclastic Controversy
A dispute over the use of religious icons, eventually causing the split of the christian church.
Heresy
Something which is in violation of the churches doctrine
Excommunication
Expulsion and exclusion from the church and its sacred cermonies and activities
Mosaics
A piece of art consisting of small pieces of colored glass or stone.
Hagia Sophia
A large church in Constantinople built by Justinian
Steppe
A large treeless but grassy plain.
Taiga
A zone north of the steppe region known for its great forests with abundant rainfall and harsh winters
Boyars
The equivalent of european nobles, usually were in a council to advise the local prince
Pravda Russkaia
The first legal law code installed in Kievan Russia by Yuroslav I.
Metropolitan
The chief bishop of the kievan church
Czar
The russian version of an emperor to the equivalent of a Roman or Byzantine emperor.
third Rome
The idea that a city, place, or state is the successor of the great empire of Rome. The Turks declared Moscow the third Rome after the fall of Constantinople.

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