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Topic 9: Byzantium and Early Russia: The Orthodox Tradition

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	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. Leo Isaurian, the Byzantine ruler, waged a policy of against images and statues in the churches.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. Russian history is said to have begun with the entry of the into eastern Slavic affairs in the 860s.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. The “Second Rome” was also known as Constantinople or .

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. The loss of Egypt to the Persians during Heraclius’s reign cost Constantinople a large part of its .

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. The Turks, who had migrated from the region north of China to southwestern Asia around the sixth century, converted gradually to .

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. After Justinian, the Emperor is most remembered for contributing to the legal traditions of Byzantium.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. The Byzantine Empire became weak and vulnerable in the eleventh century when it abandoned the .

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. The eastern part of the Roman Empire centered on Constantinople became known as .

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. The last effort to restore Mediterranean unity came under the eastern emperor .

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. By 1400, the had advanced from their strongholds in Asia Minor across into Europe, where they captured Serbia, Bulgaria, and Greece.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. In May 1453, the city of Constantinople fell to the armies of , called the Conqueror.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. The provinces of the Ottoman Empire were ruled by provincial governors called .

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. Day-to-day administration in the Ottoman Empire was carried out by a large bureaucracy headed by a grand .

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. Suleiman the Magnificent (1520-1566) was called by his own people.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. The , the peninsula including Macedonia and Greece plus what became Bulgaria, was controlled by the Byzantine Empire.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. was the official language of the Eastern Empire from the reign of Justinian.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. The Byzantine emperor was responsible for the attempted reconstruction of the political unity of the ancient Roman Empire.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. One of the major works of architecture completed during the reign of Justinian was the huge church called .

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. was the courtesan who became wife and advisor to Justinian.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. One of the generals responsible for Justinian’s reconquest of North Africa and Italy was .

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. One of the military technological achievements of the Byzantine Empire was the invention of , a weapon used against the Arab fleets.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. The Slavic kingdom established in the northern portions of the Balkan Peninsula as a major rival to the Byzantine Empire was .

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. The emperor responsible for the defeat of the Bulgars in the eleventh century was .

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. Images of religious figures that became objects of veneration in Byzantine Christianity were .

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. When a Byzantine emperor attempted to suppress the veneration of painted images, he initiated , a religious controversy that split the eastern church.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. In 1204 a crusade led by merchants conquered Byzantium and temporarily unseated the Byzantine emperor.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. The form of Christianity that developed in Byzantium and spread to Russia and the Balkans was referred to as Christianity.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. In 864 the Byzantine government sent the missionaries north to carry Orthodox Christianity to the Slavic regions.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. The alphabet devised by Orthodox missionaries for the Slavic peoples was called after one of the evangelists.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. The trade city established by Scandinavian traders in southern Russia in the ninth century, , became the focal point for the kingdom of Russia that flourished to the twelfth century.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. The legendary Scandinavian who theoretically established the first kingdom of Russia was .

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. took its name from the Greek word for red, referring to the hair color of many of the Norse traders.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. The Russian ruler responsible for converting the country to Christianity was .

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. was the last of the great Kievan rulers who issued a legal code based on Byzantine models.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. Russian aristocrats or had less political power than their counterparts in western Europe.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. In 1236 a large force of Mongols, called according to Russian tradition, captured the major Russian cities.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. The was the most prestigious bishop in the Byzantine Empire.

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