Chapt. 10
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- Theodora
- Justinian's wife and one of Justinian's advisors and she urged him to change the law to affect the status of women
- Mosaic
- picutre or design made from small pieces of enamel, glass, or stone
- Vladimir Monomakh
- Ruler from 1113 A.D - 1125 A.D
- Rus
- took control of Novogorod in a.d. 862
- Czar
- "Caesar"
- Third Rome
- Moscow proclaimed by the Russians after the fall of Constantinople
- Polovtsy
- Turkish people who interfered with Kiev's trade
- Iconoclasts
- believed that having icon in church was the same as worshipping idols
- Dowery
- money or goods brought by a woman to her husband at marriage
- Ottoman Turks
- a rising Asian power that began to threaten Byzantine territory
- Boyars
- nobles
- Belisarius
- General of the army
- Justinian
- ruled from a.d.527 to a.d.565 and led the Byzantines in his revival
- Rurik
- the leader of the people called Rus
- Hagia Sophia
- church in Constantinople meaning "holy wisdom"
- Icon
- holy picture of Jesus, virgin mary or the saints
- Taiga
- North of steppe, great forests and recieved much rainfall
- Justinian Code
- organized into four parts: the Code, the Digest,the Institutes, and the Nvallae
- Vladimir
- sent observers to Christian church services in several places
- Excommunication
- person who can not be a member of the church anymore
- Heresy
- opinion that conflicts with offical church beliefs
- Steppe
- a plain that is grassy and mostly treeless with black, fertile soil