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| Hagia Sophia | it’s name means Holy Wisdom and was a great Christian church built by Justinian in the city of Constantinople |
| Justinian | a great Byzantine Emperor ruled from 527 to 565 A.D. reconquered much of Roman Empire revised Roman law beautified Constantinople and ruled as an autocrat |
| Theodora | shrewd politician who served as advisor and co-ruler to her husband Justinian. At times |
| Belisarius | the loyal general of Justinian who helped him to reconquer land that had once been part of the Roman Empire |
| Vikings | barbarians/raiders who attacked coastal cities after the Treaty of Verdun causing a further decline of Medieval Europe |
| Clovis | a Frankish leader who united all the tribes of Gaul in 481 A.D. |
| Charlemagne | a great Frankish King who was crowned by Pope Leo III and to be the Emperor of all Romans |
| Franks | one of the Germanic tribes of Europe that became dominant with the fall of Rome |
| Charles Martel | a Frankish leader who stopped the Muslim armies in Western Europe in 732 at theBattle of Tours |
| Muslim | believers in Islam |
| Magyars | nomadic people who attacked Byzantine Empire and Europe later driven to settle in modern day Hungary |
| Eleanor of Aquitaine | powerful and influential French medieval woman she was politically and socially powerful she became Queen of France and later Queen of England |
| Benedictine Rule | an ordered way of life within monasteries |
| Francis of Assisi | set up order of friars who taught poverty |
| Franciscans | order of friars who taught poverty |
| Cluny | monks that began reform movement in the church by reviving the Benedictine Rule |
| Dominicans | order established to teach official Roman Catholic beliefs and to stamp out heresy with Inquisition |
