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Caesaropapism
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idea of combining the power of secular government with, or making it superior to, the spiritual authority of the Christian Church
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Corpus Juris Civilis
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"Body of the Civil Law"; Justinian's Code which served as the source of legal inspiration in the Byzantine empire
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Byzantine Commonwealth
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Byzantine empire which existed for nearly one thousand years as the "economic and political powerhouse of the postclassical era"
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Greek fire
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a burning-liquid weapon used by the Byzantine Empire, Arabs, Chinese, and Mongols
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Schism
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the great schism of east and west was the split between the Greek Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church
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Sasanids
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name used for the third Iranian dynasty and the second Persian Empire
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Hagia Sophia
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considered the epitome of Byzantine architecture it is a former patriarchal basilica, later a mosque, now a museum, in Istanbul, Turkey
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theme system
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Organization in the "Byzantine Empire by which each imperial province, known as a theme, was placed under the jurisdiction of a general who assumed full military defense and civil administration responsibilities.
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Iconoclasm
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practice of destroying/ridiculing cultural icons or institutions or not being allowed to depict an icon within a culture of the culture's own religious icons and other symbols or monuments, usually for religious or political motives
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Fourth Crusade
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originally designed to conquer Muslim Jerusalem by means of an invasion through Egypt instead they conquered Constantinople
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Saints Cyril and Methodius
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two Byzantine Greek[3] brothers born in Thessaloniki in the 9th century, who became missionaries of Christianity among the Slavs of Great Moravia and Pannonia. Through their work they influenced the cultural development of all Slavic peoples for which they received the title “Apostles to the Slavs”. They are credited with devising the Glagolitic alphabet, the first alphabet used to transcribe the Old Church Slavonic language
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