Chapter 10
Terms
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- Belisarius
- general of the army, defeated the Nika Revolt
- boyars
- nobles
- czar
- caesar
- Methodius
- Christian missionaries, brother of Cyril, created alphabet for Slavs (Cyrillic)
- Ottoman Turks
- threatned Byzantine territory, ended the Byzantine Empire
- Polovtsy
- interfered with Kiev's trade, Turkish people
- Rus
- took control of Novogorod, "Russia" probably came from this name
- "Greek Fire"
- a chemical weapon, a liquid that bursts into flame, setting enemies' ships on fire
- Ivan the Terrible
- laid the foundations for a new Russian state, murdered his oldest son
- Cyril
- Christian missionaries, brother of Methodius, created alphabet for Slavs (Cyrillic)
- icon
- holy picture of Jesus, the Virgin Mary, or saints
- Ivan III
- "Ivan the Great", became the first ruler of the independent state called Russia
- taiga
- North of steppe, great forests, and much rainfall, long + cold winters
- dowry
- money or goods a wife brought to marriage for husband
- heresy
- an opinion that conflicts with official church beliefs
- Pravada Russkia
- "RUssian Justice" Russia's first law code
- Mosaic
- picture or design made from small pieces of enamel, glass, or stone
- Yaroslav the Wise
- built many chuches, and introduced Russia's first law code, "Yaroslav I"
- Vladimir I
- sent observers to Christian church services in several places, ordered all Kievans to become Christians, destroyed all pagan statues
- Iconoclasts
- believed that having icons in church was the same as worshipping idols, (did not want icons)
- Iconoclastic Controversy
- debate between the opponents and defenders of icons
- excommunication
- when a person cannot attend or be a member of the church anymore
- steppe
- has black, fertile soil, grassy and mostly treeless, (currently Ukraine)
- Rurik
- leader of the Rus
- Hagia Sophia
- "holy wisdom", one of the world's great buildings, a church in Constaninople
- Justinian
- Emperor (A.D. 527 - A.D. 565), led Byzantines to revive power and glory from Roman Empire
- Justinian Code
- "Code", "Institutes", "Digest", "Novellae", created by Emperor Justinian as a collection of Roman laws
- "third Rome"
- Russians proclaimed Moscow to be... , ________ would bring the spiritual light of Christian orthodoxy to the whole world