| A | B |
|---|
| The Primary Chronicles | Put together by Monks, its the history of Christianity in Russia |
| boyars | nobles |
| Princess Olga | publicly converted to christianity (lived in Kiev) |
| Vladimir | sent teams out to observe the different religions and ended up using the Byzantine Christianity and made all his subjects convert. |
| slavs | people from the north of the black sea |
| The Code | 5,000 Roman Laws |
| The Digest | summarized the laws (opinions) |
| The institutes | How to use the laws |
| The Novellae | New Laws |
| Hagia Sophia | crowning glory of Justinians reign |
| Hippodrome | offered entertainment for the poor and rich citizens |
| Plague of Justinian | destroyed a huge amount of the byzantine population and left the empire exposed to its enemies |
| themes | military districts |
| Ottoman Turks | Constantinople finnaly fell to these people in 1453 |
| Eastern Orthodox | less strict |
| Roman Catholic | more strict |
| patriarch | leading bishop of the east, bowed to the emperor |
| St. John Chrysostom | first patriach or the east |
| Emperor Leo III | banned the use of iCONS |
| iconoclasts | icon breakers |
| Pope | head of the Roman Catholic Church |
| excommunication | outcast from the church |
| Theodora (not Justinians Wife) | restored icons to Eastern Churches |
| Schism | split |
| Saint Methodius and Saint Cyril | most successul eastern missionaries |
| Cyrillic alphabet | many slavic languages |
