Vocab #6

2. a historic building in Istanbul, Turkey, originally built as a Christian cathedral during the Byzantine Empire, which translates to "Holy Wisdom" in Greek
3. flat grassland areas located in temperate climates
4. the separation of the Catholic church of the West from the Orthodox churches of the East
5. A city founded by the Roman emperor Constantine the Great as capital of the eastern part of the Roman Empire
7. communities or individuals who preserved the true faith (as defined by those councils), as opposed to those who were declared heretical
9. a picture or pattern created by arranging small pieces of colored materials like stone, glass, or ceramic together to form an image
11. a collection of laws made by the Roman Emperor Justinian in the year 529
12. closely based on the Greek alphabet, with about a dozen additional letters invented to represent Slavic sounds not found in Greek

1. a body of Mongols that overran eastern Europe in the 13th century and dominated Russia until 1486
6. chief or father of a family
8. a religious work of art, most commonly a painting, in the cultures of the Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, and Catholic churches
10. a Russian word for ruler or emperor