Hune Unit 3 Chapter 12
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Byzantine Empire | Eastern Rome |
| Constantinople | city of Constantine, capital of the Byzantine Empire |
| Istanbul | Constantinople was renamed after the Turks conquered |
| Justinian I | Byzantine ruler that tried to restore the original Roman Empire |
| Theodora | Wife of Justinian I |
| Belisarius | Justinian I's top general that put down citizens in the Nika Revolt |
| Nika Revolt | citizens who opposed the reforms Justinian I was making |
| Hagia Sophia | amazing church, meant Holy Wisdom |
| Heraclius | Byzantine ruler that brought an official end to Roman traditions |
| mosiac | pictures created with tiny colored tiles, stones, or clay |
| iconoclast | people that opposed pictures of saints or The Virgin Mary used in worship |
| clergy | church officials |
| Orthodox | means right thought, split off of the Roman Catholic Church, did not believe in the authority of the pope |
| Rus/Kiev | early Russians that formed along the Dnieper River |
| Yaroslav the Wise | made many cultural and governmental improvements to Kievan Rus |
| Cyril/Methodius | monks, brothers that used the slavonic language to introduce Orthodox to Keivan Rus |
| Cyrillic Alphabet | alphabet used to translate Greek to Slavonic |
| Russian Orthodox | new branch of Orthodox that used the Slavonic language |
| Vladimir I | Russian leader that was baptized a christian, built libraries, schools, and churches |
| Alexander Nevsky | protected Russia from the Swedes and calmed the Mongol threat |
| Teutonic Knights | German knights that wanted to forcefully convert people to Roman Catholicism |
| Alfred the Great | first king of England, united the Anglo-Saxons, drove the Vikings out of the country |
| Anglo/Saxons | early tribes that formed England |
| Augustine of Canterbury | spread Christianity to England |
| Franks | early people who formed France |
| Clovis | King that established France with the Franks |
| medieval | middle ages |
| Christendom | society of Western Europe in which people were linked by Christianity |
| Gregory the Great | increased the authority of the pope's role |
| monasticism | voluntary separation from society to focus of faith |
| Augustine of Hippo | religious scholar that said people should pay less attention to the material word and more attention to God's plan |
| Benedictine Rule | most popular form of monasticism |
| Celtic Rule | more strict form of monasticism than Benedictine |
| abbot | leader of a monestary |
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