Byzantine Vocab

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  1. 3. the formal, permanent split between the Byzantine (Eastern Orthodox) Church in Constantinople and the Roman Catholic Church in Rome
  2. 4. a vast, dry, treeless grassland spanning from Eastern Europe to Mongolia
  3. 5. the capital city of the Byzantine (Eastern Roman) Empire from 330 to 1453 CE
  4. 10. intricate pictures made from tiny pieces of colored glass, stone, or gold, used primarily to decorate church walls, ceilings, and domes
  5. 11. a collection of Roman laws organized by Byzantine Emperor Justinian I around 529–534 CE
  6. 12. a writing system developed in the 9th–10th century AD
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  1. 1. state-sanctioned Christian church (Eastern Orthodoxy) that used Greek language, liturgy, and culture, operating as the official religion
  2. 2. In the context of the Byzantine Empire and its neighbors, a tsar was a Slavic term for an emperor or supreme ruler, directly derived from the Latin word
  3. 6. one of the highest-ranking bishops in the Christian Church, acting as the supreme spiritual leader for a major city or region
  4. 7. a historic 6th-century monument in Istanbul, Turkey, built by Byzantine Emperor Justinian I
  5. 8. sacred, stylized images of holy figures
  6. 9. a powerful Mongol-Turkic state that ruled over a vast area of Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia from the 1240s until 1502