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- 4. A supreme ruler, particularly the Byzantine emperor, who was considered the head of the Orthodox Christian world.
- 5. An ancient city in modern-day Turkey that's now known as Istanbul
- 7. It was a legal code. It consisted of the various sets of laws and legal interpretations collected and codified by scholars under the direction of Byzantine Emperor Justinian I.
- 9. The principal church of the Byzantine Empire in its capital, Constantinople (later Istanbul), and a mosque after the Ottoman Empire conquered the city in 1453.
- 11. Communities or individuals who preserved the true faith (as defined by those councils), as opposed to those who were declared heretical.
- 12. Sacred images representing the saints, Christ, and the Virgin, as well as narrative scenes such as Christ's Baptism (2013.980a–d) and Crucifixion.
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- 1. The western part of the Mongol empire, which flourished from the mid-13th century to the end of the 14th century.
- 2. Closely based on the Greek alphabet, with about a dozen additional letters invented to represent Slavic sounds not found in Greek.
- 3. The art of creating images with an assemblage of small pieces of colored glass, stone, or other materials.
- 6. It split the main faction of Christianity into two divisions, Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox
- 8. One of the Old Testament fathers of the human race or of the Hebrew people
- 10. A dry, grassy plain