Vocab #6

3. communities or individuals who preserved the true faith (as defined by those councils), as opposed to those who were declared heretical.
7. the legal code of ancient Rome; codified under Justinian; the basis for many modern systems of civil law
8. an emperor of Russia before 1917
9. the male head of a family or tribe
11. A city founded by the Roman emperor Constantine the Great as capital of the eastern part of the Roman Empire
12. a body of Mongols that overran eastern Europe in the 13th century and dominated Russia until 1486

1. The alphabet used for writing the Russian language and several related languages
2. a period of division in the Roman Catholic Church, 1378–1417, over papal succession
4. a 6th century masterpiece of Byzantine architecture in Istanbul
5. a picture or pattern produced by arranging together small colored pieces of hard material, such as stone, tile, or glass.
6. a large area of flat unforested grassland in southeastern Europe or Siberia.
10. a painting of Jesus Christ or another holy figure, typically in a traditional style on wood, venerated and used as an aid to devotion in the Byzantine and other Eastern Churches.