| A | B |
| Excommunicate | when a person or group is separated from the church |
| icon | a statue or image of a religious person or event |
| iconoclast | Byzantine officials charged with destroying icons |
| Schism | a separation |
| monastery | where monks live and work |
| mosaic | an image made of many pieces of colored glass or stone |
| hippodrome | stadium in Constantinople |
| Constantinople | Capital of the Byzantine Empire |
| Missionary | a person that travels to distant lands to teach his religion to people |
| Justinian | Greatest of all the Byzantine emperors |
| Theodora | Justinians wife and empress |
| Belasarius | the Byzantine general that reorganized and improved the army |
| Tribonian | the scholar that led a committee to reorganize Byzantine law |