Chapter 10
Terms
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- taiga
- major agricultural region with great forests and much rainfall
- Rurik
- Leader of the Rus and ruler of Kiev as well as Slavic tribes along the Dnieper River
- heresy
- an opinion that conflicts with official church beliefs
- excommunication
- official edict that bans someone from church membership
- Belisarius
- General of the army that crushed the Nika Revolt
- Yaroslav the Wise
- Ruler who built many churches and introduced Russia's first law code
- Iconoclastic Controversy
- The debate between opponents and defenders of icons
- Justinian Code
- collection of the laws of the Roman Empire
- mosaic
- picture or design made from small pieces of enamel, glass or stone
- Ottoman Turks
- A rising Asian power that threatened Byzantine territory and took Adrianople and Constantinople
- Hagia Sophia
- meaning "holy wisdom", a church that is one of the world's great buildings
- iconoclasts
- felt that having icons in the church was wrong
- Ivan the Terrible
- Ivan IV who performed cruel acts such as the murder of his oldest son
- steppe
- grassy plain stretching across eastern Europe and central Asia
- Cyril and Methodius
- christian missionaries who tried to teach the Bible to Slavs
- dowry
- the money or goods a wife brought to a husband at marriage
- Justinian
- Buzantine emperor who ruled from A.D 527 to A.D 565
- third Rome
- Moscow proclaimed by the Russians after the fall of Constantinople
- Theodora
- Justinians wife who helped to gain more rights for women
- icon
- holy picture of Jesus, the Virgin Mary, or the saints