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Chapter 9: Civilization in Eastern Europe: Byzantium and Orthodox Europe

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This activity contains 23 questions.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. 21) The eastern half of the Roman Empire survived after the fifth century as the .

	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, applied 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.

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