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Byzantium
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long-last empire centered at Constantinople
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Byzantion
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a modest market town and fishing village that occupied a site of enourmous strategic significance- the former town of Constantinople
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Constantinople
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capital of the Byzantine empire
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byzantine (adj.)
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unnecessarily complex
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caeseropapism
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concept relating to the mixing of political and religious authority, as with the Roman empeerors, that was central to the church versus state controversy in medeival europe
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hagia sophia
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greek orthodox temple converted by the byzantine emperor Justinian and later converted into a mosque
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justinian's code
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th4e definitive code of Roman law
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"greek fire"
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a devestating incendiary weapon which burned even when floating on water
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theme system
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placed an imperial province (theme) under the jurisdiction of a general who assumed responsibility for both its military defense and its civil admnistration
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hippodrome
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place where chariot races took place
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arians; arian christians
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early Christian hersey that centered around teachings of arius and contained the beleif that jesus was a mortal being and no coeternal with god
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icons
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paintings of jesus, saints, and other figures of religious significance
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iconoclasm
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movement begun by the byzantine emperor leo iii to dewstrooy religious icons b/c their veneration was considered sinful
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asceticism
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self denial; abandoning society-fasting, celibacy, prayer
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schism
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division of ag roup into opppiosing factions
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excommunicate
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refusing to recognize the other church as properly christian
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cyrillic alphabet
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represnted sounds of slavic languages more precisely than did the greeks
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