| A | B |
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| Magna Carta | written guarentee of English rights and privileges |
| Model Parliament | A meeting of great nobles and bishops, two knights from each country and 2 citizens from each town |
| Grand Jury | jury deciding weather enough evidence exists to bring a case to trial |
| Trial Jury | jury giving verdicts on cases brought to trial |
| Limited Monarchy | government in which a monarch's power's are limited, usu. by constitution and legislative body |
| Justinian | ruler of the Byzantine Empire from 527-565 |
| Eastern Orthadox Church | a split of the Christian Church was divied into the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthadox Church in 1054 |
| Justinian's Code | He had scholarssummarize all existing Roman law into one work. Justinan's code became the chief source of Roman Law in W. Europe |
| Ivan III | a prince of Moscow who ruled from 1462-1505, is called the founder of Modern Russia |
| Ivan IV | ruler from 1533-1584 exercised an absolute power ruthlessly and is known as "Ivan the Terrible" because of his cruelty and madness |
| Cyrillic alphabet | alphabet devised in the ninth century by Greek Monks Cyril and Methodius |
| Kabba | a sacred shrine that housed images of all the Arab Gods |
| Koran | Muslim holy book used for guidence in all matters |
| people of the Book | what jews and christians are to Muslims b/c they believed in God's revelations in the Bible |
| Hejira | Muhammad's Journey from Mecca to Medina in 622 |
