| A | B |
|---|
| Byzantine Empire | eastern Roman Empire - preserved Greek & Roman learning to Europe |
| church | place where Christians pray |
| codified law | assemble / gather / organize laws ? in this Roman Laws |
| Constantinople | center/capital of the Byzantine Empire |
| Crusades | Christian holy wars 1095 - 1240 AD |
| Cyrillic | language many Slavic languages are written in - 33 letters |
| Dardenelles & Bosporus | a waterway - strategic chokepoint in Byzantine Empire |
| Eastern Orthodox Christianity | a branch of Christianity - dates of Easter & Christmas different |
| Emperor Justinian | major leader of Byzantine Empire - reorganized govt. & laws |
| Hagia Sophia | said to be the most beautiful church in Christianity - later turned into a mosque - located in Constantinople |
| icons | religious paintings often prayed to |
| Justinian Code | Byzantine law taken from Rome |
| Justinian Code | laws reorganized under Emperor Justinian |
| mosque | place where Muslims pray |
| monotheism | belief in 1 God |
| Allah | the name for God in Islam |
| mosque | where Muslims pray |
| Mecca, Medina, Jerusalem | the holy sites/centers of Islam |
| Koran, Qur'an | the holy book of Islam |
| Mohammed | the founder of Islam |
