| A | B |
|---|
| Inflation | a drastic drop in value of money, coupled with rise in prices |
| mercenary | a soldier who is paid to fight in a foreign army |
| diocletian | restored order to empire, increased its strength, governed as an absolute ruler, limited personal freedoms |
| constantine | moved capitaln to Byzantium, ended the persecution of Christians w/ edict of mulan; making christianity an official religion |
| alaric | king of visigoths |
| attila | powerful chieftain who united Huns |
| justinian code | the body of roman civil law collected and organized by order of the Byzantine emperor Justinian (around 534) |
| hagia sophia | the cathedral of holy wisdom in Constantinople, built by order of the emperor Justinian |
| patriarch | a principal bishop in the eastern branch of christianity |
| icons | religious images used by eastern Christians |
| iconclasts | one of the eastern Christians who destroyed religious images in churches during the eighth and ninth centuries |
| excommunication | the taking away of a person's right of membership in a Christian church |
| schism | a split or division- especially a formal split withint he Christian Church |
| cyrllic alphabet | an alphabet for the writing of Slavic languages, devised in the ninth century by saints Cyril and Methodius |
