| A | B |
|---|
| autocrat | ruler who has complete authority |
| icons | holy images of Christ, the Virgin Mary, or a saint |
| patriarch | in the Byzantine Empire, the highest church official in a major city |
| schism | permanent division in a church |
| boyar | landowning nobles in Russia under the czars |
| czar | title of the ruler of the Russian empire |
| Michael Romanov | his reign established a dynasty which would rule Russia from 1613 to 1917 |
| Time of Troubles | the disorderly years in Russia from 1604-1613 |
| Vladmir | he organized mass baptisms in Kiev |
| ethnic groups | large groups of people who share the same language and cultural heritage |
| Stefan Dusan | Serbian king |
| Golden Bull of 1222 | this limited royal power in Hungary |
| Jadwiga | Poland's greatest age came after she married |
| liberum veto | this made it hard for Polish government to take action |
| Anna Comnena | western world's first female historian |
| Yaroslav | Ruled Kiev from 1019-1054 and Kiev experienced a golden age during his rule |
| Ivan the Great | brought much of northern Russia under his rule which was from 1462-1505 |
| Muhammed II | Ottoman ruler who conquered Constantinople and renamed it Istanbul |
