Byzantine Empire

Constantinople; seat of the Eastern Roman Empire

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Justinian I
Byzantine emperor who dreamed of restoring the original Roman Empire

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Theodora

Wife of Justinian; served as co-ruler

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Belisarius
Top general who recaptured Northern Africa

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Mosaics

Pictures created with tiny colored tiles of glass, stone or clay fitted
together and cemented in place

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Icons
Objects that represent greater meaning

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Clergy

Group of ordained leaders in religion

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Orthodox Church
Church in the east, which differed from the Roman Catholic Church

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Rus

Northern Europeans-perhaps Vikings

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Yaroslav the Wise
Ruler who made many cultural and administrative improvements to Kievan
Rus

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Cyril

Brother of Methodius who converted Slavs to Christianity

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Methodius
Brother of Cyril who converted Slavs to Christianity

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Cyrillic alphabet

Slavonic written language based on Greek alphabet

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Vladmir I
Grand Duke who made Christianity the state religion of Kievan Russia

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Alexander Nevsky

He fought Germans and Swedes stopping expansion in to Russian

territory

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Alfred the Great
King of Wessex who led forces to push back the Danes back to the north

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Clovis

The eighth largest city in New Mexico

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Medieval
Belonging or relating to the middle Ages; old

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Christendom

Worldwide community of Christians

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Gregory the Great
He won respect for the papacy and made the pope one of the most
influential figures in Europe

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Monasticism

Withdrawing from the world for religious reasons

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Augustine of Hippo
His writings helped shape Christian doctrine for centuries

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Benedictine Rule

Rule or collection of guidelines for monks

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Abbot
A man who is the head of a monastery

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