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23 Cards in this Set
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capital of Byzantine empire
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Constantinople
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roman emperor in 330 A.D. and strategicly placed/built Constantinople
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Constantine
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ruled Byzantine empire during its height
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Justinian
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wife of Justinian who was an actress and was also beautiful, inteligent, and ambitious
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Theodora
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headed comission made up of 10 scholars and was a legal expert
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Tribonian
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for 6 years collected and organized vast numbers of laws
-threw out outdated laws -simplified many laws -put remainder of laws in categories |
Corpus of Civil law or Justinian code
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church officials suck as priests and bishops
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clergy
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church members who were not clergy
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laity
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religious symbols
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icons
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ordered all icons removed from the churches
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Leo III
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image breakers
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iconoclasts
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seperation of churches
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schism
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religious teachings
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theology
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temporary rulers
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regent
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pictures made of tiny pieces of colored glass or flat stone set in plaster
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mosaic
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books decorated with elaborate designs
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illuminated manuscript
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religious communities
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monasteries
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place were nuns lived isolated lifestyles as Christians
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convents
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people who carry a religious message
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missionary
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brothers that were known as the most successful missionaries
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Cyril and Methodius
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one of the brothers that devised an alphabet for thw Slavic language known as the Cyrillic alphabet
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Cyril
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an Italian trading city on the Adriatic Sea
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Venice
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came from Central Asia and converted to Islam and were defeated by Byzantines in town of Manzikert
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the Seljuk Turks
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