Kievan Rus vocabulary
Across
- 2. a good and holy person and especially one who in the Christian church is declared to be worthy of special honor
- 3. alphabet relating to an alphabet used for writing Old Church Slavic and for Russian.
- 7. people who study religious texts
- 10. a messenger and ambassador. Also refers to the 12 followers of Jesus
- 11. the act of convincing someone to change to a different belief, religion, view, or party
- 12. the work of converting someone to a new faith
Down
- 1. Pravda The code of laws used by the Kievan Rus, which means justice of Rus
- 4. The capital of the Byzantine Empire
- 5. A Norse people primarily from southern Scandinavia, who from the late 8th to late 11th centuries, raided and traded across wide areas of Europe.
- 6. a person sent to a place to spread a religious faith
- 8. a group of territories or peoples united under one ruler, an Emperor
- 9. Horde a body of Mongols that overran eastern Europe in the 13th century and dominated Russia until 1486.