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61 Cards in this Set
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Monastery
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place where monks lived in seclusion dedicating themsleves to God
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Schism
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when the church split between Eastern and Western
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slash & burn agriculture
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farmers chop down trees and burn stumps. Ashes used as fertilizer
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Vikings
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hired to protect trade routes
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Ottoman Turks
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Islamic group who took over Constantinople
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Laity
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people who attend church
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Icons
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religous portraits, paintings, mosaics, etc.
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Greek Fire
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chemicals used in war that explode
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Bosnians
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Slavic people who were Muslims
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Boyar
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landowning nobles of Russia
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Mongols
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conquered most of Russia
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Tatars
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also known as Mongols
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Theology
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study of religious questions
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Hagia Sophia
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church in Constantinople
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convent
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Where women went to live to dedicate themselves to God
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Crusades
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battles to protect Christianity
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steppe
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large, grassy, semiarid land of Eurasia
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Mosaic
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colored tiles, glass, stones used to make a picture
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Justinian
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created a law code
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Rurik
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Viking who was invited to rule Novgorod
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Theodora
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worked to improve womens position in Byz. Empire
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Cyril
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came up with an alphabet that helped convert Slavs to Christianity
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Ivan III
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brought Russian principalities under his control
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Ottoman Turks
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conquered Byz empire
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Armenia
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1st country to officially adopt Christianity
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Justinian
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tried to unite East & West Roman Empire
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Kremlin
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center of religion, gov., and culture in Russia
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Kievan Rus
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Slavic territories along Dnieper River
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Illustrated manuscripts
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elaborate, decorated bookds
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Muscovy
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center of Orthodox church after fall of Constantiople
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Silk
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major industry in Constantinople
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Mongols
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captured and isolated Kiev and most of Russia
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South Slavs
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Serbs, Croats, Slovenes
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clergy
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people, such as priests and bishops, ordained for religious services
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laity
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lay members of a church (not ordained)
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icons
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a representation or picture of a sacred Christian person, the picture or statue itself regarded as sacred
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schism
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a separation of the church in A.D. 1054 that created the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church in the East
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mosaic
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a kind of picture the Byzantine artists excelled at creating, made by setting small pieces of glass or tile into mortar
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illuminated manuscript
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the art of decorating a book page with elaborate designs, beautiful lettering, or miniature paintings as practiced by religious scholars of the Byzantine Empire and later adopted in western Europe
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steppe
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an immense semiarid grass-covered plain found in southeastern Europe and Siberia
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boyar
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a member of the council of landowners and wealthy merchants who assisted princes in early Russia
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tsar
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an emperor of early Russia
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Constantine
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the Roman emperor that built Constantinople in 330 A.D. in the very strategic penninsula between Europe and Asia, the Black Sea and the Mediterraniean Sea
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Justinian
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the Emperor Who Never Sleeps, he ruled the Byzantine Empire at its height
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Theodora
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a supportive wife of Justinian and an active participant in government, she advocated that a wife had the right to own land equal to her wealth at betrothal
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Leo III
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the emperor who ordered all icons to be removed from churches in A.D. 726
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Cyril
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a missionary who invented an alphabet for the Slavic languages in order to spread the Orthodox Christianity
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Seljuk
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the Turks from central Asia who converted to Islam, they defeated the Byzantines at Manzikert
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Turks
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a person speaking the Turkic language, and from th area of Asia Minor
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Rurik
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the Viking leader who accepted the invitation of the Slavs to instill order in the area called Rus
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Vladimir
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he became Grand Prince in A.D. 980 and brought Eastern Orthdoxy to Kievan Russia
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Alexander Nevsky
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the prince of Novgorod who defeated the invading Swedes in A.D. 1240
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Ivan III
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he married the niece of the last Byzantine emperor in A.D. 1472 and claimed the title tsar (caesar) and claimed himself Sovereign of All Russia
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Constantinople
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strategic city of the Byzantine Empire located on the penninsula between Europe and Asia, and the Black Sea and the Mediterranean Sea, birthplace of the Eastern Orthodox religion
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Balkan Penninsula
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a penninsula in southeastern Europe bounded by the Mediterranean and Aegean Seas to the east and the Adriatic and Ionian Seas to the sest and the Black Sea to the east
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Asia Minor
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the western penninsula of Asia, lying between the Black and Mediterranean Seas
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Adriatic Sea
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an arm of the Mediterranean Sea extending between Italy and the Balkan Penninsula
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Dnieper River
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a river flowing 1,420 miles south into the Black Sea and the 3rd longest in Europe, it cuts across the steppes and thick forests of eastern Europe
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Kiev
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located high on a bluff on the Dnieper River; in A.D. 880, this became the 1st capital of Rus
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Moscow
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Alexander Nevsky became ruler of this small town and expanded the influence of Muscovy and which eventually replaced Kiev as the capital of Russia
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Volga River
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the longest river in Europe, it begins in the Valdai Hills and flows 2,290 miles southeast to the Caspian Sea, cutting across the steppes and forests of eastern Europe
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