Byzantine Empire

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Across
  1. 3. Main street where the shopping was great.
  2. 5. Killed 10,000 people every day.
  3. 7. Religious images used by Eastern Christians to aid their devotions.
  4. 10. Wrote rules for the life of monks.
  5. 12. Leading bishop of the Roman Catholic Church.
  6. 13. Slavic languages, like Russian,are written in this alphabet.
  7. 14. Language spoken in the Byzantine empire.
  8. 15. Revised Roman law that lasted 900 years.
Down
  1. 1. The city of Constantinople fell to this group in 1453.
  2. 2. Was rebuilt by Justinian and hailed as the most splendid church in the Christian world.
  3. 4. To be declared an outcast of the church.
  4. 6. Leading bishop of the Eastern Orthodox Church.
  5. 8. Chariot races and circus acts took place here.
  6. 9. Became emperor of the Byzantine empire when his uncle died.
  7. 11. The general who put down the Nike riots.