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Charlemagne
Charles/King of the Franks

(768-814); first emperor in western Europe in over 300 years

Medieval
middle age, between Greco-Roman civilization and the Renaissance in the 14th century
Byzantine Empire
eastern Roman Empire, maintained and reinterpreted Roman tradition. Muslims called it “Rum”)
Kievan Russia
an emerging kingdom at Kiev in the Ukraine that was influenced by the by the Byzantine empire and the Christian church
What enabled the Eastern Roman Empire to keep from breaking up into small principalities
Having a single ruler with supreme legal and religious authority
By the 12th century how many former Byzantine Christians had adopted the Muslim faith
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Schism
A formal split within a religious community, in 1054 between the Latin and Orthodox Christian churches. (Byzantines side with Orthodox)
“the plague of Justinian”
6th century epidemic of bubonic plague named after the ruling emperor
Alexius Comnenus
Byzantine emperor from a family based military aristocracy that arose in the late 11th century . He considered himself not a ruler but a lord.
Hagia Sophia
(sacred wisdom) cathedral/greatest Byzantine architectural monument built during the reign of Justinian.
Describe Byzantine art
images of holy figures against gold backgrounds
Cyril and Methodius
Byzantine missionaries who preached to the Slavs of Moravia and taught their followers to write in the Cyrillic script that came to be used by Slavic Christians adhering to the Orthodox (Byzantine) rite.

Byzantine Women-

were confined to their houses and wore veils if they went out. However, Byzantine women ruled alongside their husbands between 1028 and 1056, and women did not take refuge in nunneries.

Anna Comnenus

Alex Comnenus' daughter who defended Constantinople when a French visitor described it as squalid and harmed by permanent darkness.