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14 Cards in this Set
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Justinian Code
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Civil laws that decided legal questions that regulated whole areas of Byzantine life. Marriage, slavery, property, inheritance, women's rights and crimes for example. Code served the empire for 900 years.
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Hagia Sophia
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Church that Justinian repaired. Means "Holy Wisdom". Most splendid church in the Christian world.
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Patriarch
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Leading Bishop of the East
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Icon
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Religious images
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Iconoclast
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Icon breakers
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Excommunication
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to outcast
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Schism
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to split apart
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Cyrillic Alphabet
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Alphabet for Slavic languages invented by Cyril and Methodius.
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Constantinople
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Constantine moves Roman Capital to the East. Names Capital after himself.
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Justinian
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Byzantine nobleman who claimed throne and Reunited divided empire and claimed Rome.
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Empress Theodora
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Most powerful woman in Byzantine History. Married to Justinian.
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Hippodrome
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Race Track
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Rhetoric
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The study of how to use spoken or written language effectively.
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Belisarius
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Justinian General who tried to overthrow Justinian.
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