| A | B | 
| Patriarch | a principal bishop - preacher (person) in the eastern branch of  Christianity | 
| Icon | a religious image or picture (thing) used by eastern Christians | 
| Excommunication | the taking away of a person's right of membership in the Christian church (thing) | 
| Cyrillic Alphabet | an alphabet (thing) for the writing of Slavic languages | 
| Hagia Sophia | The Cathedral (place) of Holy Wisdom in Constantinople | 
| Czar | a Russian emperor (person) | 
| The Great Schism | the official split (separation) (thing)  of the Christian church into the Roman Catholic in the west and the Orthodox Chruch in the east | 
| Justinian | Byzantine emperor (person) who ruled from AD 257 to AD 565 | 
| Justinian Code | The body of Roman Civil Lay (thing) collected and organized by order of the Byzantine emperor Justinian around AD 534 | 
| Slavs | a people (person) from the forest,  north of the Black Sea |