Byzantine Empire

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  1. 2. Sect of Christianity which the Byzantine adhered to.
  2. 3. The name of people who worship Allah
  3. 9. Founder of the Byzantine Empire
  4. 11. Capital city of the Byzantine Empire
  5. 14. Abrahamic religion founded by the Prophet Muhammad
  6. 16. Original name of the Greek city that was renamed Constantinople
  7. 17. Name of the Large scale relocation of the Germanic tribes to Western Europe
  8. 19. Military campaigns to reclaim the Holy Land
  9. 21. Prince of Novgorod who defeated German army invading Russia
  10. 24. Major trade route which the Byzantine Empire had access to conduct trade
  11. 25. Banned the use of icons during religious worship
  12. 26. Constantinople was conquered by this people
  13. 27. Swedish people that invaded and settled into Northern/Northwest Europe
  14. 28. Military expeditions, beginning in the late 11th century, that were organized by western European Christians in response to centuries of Muslim wars of expansion
  15. 29. A member of a group of peoples in central and eastern Europe speaking Slavic languages.
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  1. 1. Collections of laws and legal interpretations developed under the sponsorship of the Byzantine emperor Justinian I from 529 to 565 ce
  2. 3. Name of the Renaissance in the Byzantine empire
  3. 4. Head of the Eastern Orthodox Church
  4. 5. Event in 1054CE that caused division between the Eastern and Western Roman Empire
  5. 6. Church built by Emperor Justinian
  6. 7. Official religion of the Byzantine Empire.
  7. 8. Founder of the Macedonian Renaissance
  8. 10. The primary activity to generate revenue for the Byzantine Empire
  9. 12. Viking leader that settled in Kiev
  10. 13. Missionaries that converted Central and Southern Slavs to Greek Orthodox Christianity
  11. 15. A person sent on a religious mission, especially one sent to promote Christianity in a foreign country.
  12. 18. Emperor responsible for preserving Greek and Roman knowledge and literature.
  13. 19. Russian term for Caesar
  14. 20. Empire located in present day Iran who were the rivals of the Byzantine Empire
  15. 22. Name of the actual disease which devastated the Byzantine Empire during the reign of Justinian
  16. 23. Primary language spoken in the Byzantine Empire