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.