Across
- 3. a high ranking Byzantine nobleman and succeeded his uncle to the throne of the eastern empire
- 4. an alphabet derived from the Greek alphabet and used for writing Slavic languages
- 9. the people from the forest north of the Black Sea
- 11. religious images used by eastern Christians to aid their devotions
- 12. Novgorod's prince and military hero advised his fellow princes to cooperate worth the Mongols
- 14. Valdimir's son led Kiev to even greater glory
Down
- 1. single uniform code
- 2. prime minister
- 5. 43 yer reign, became the prince of Moscow and openly challenged the Mongol rule then took the name czar
- 6. holy wisdom and the crowning glory of Justinian reign
- 7. to be outcast from the church by the pope
- 8. the most famous of the Seljuk sultans
- 10. Russian version of Caesar
- 13. leading bishop of the east
- 15. Turkish group known as this because of the family who led them
- 16. Olga's grandson converted to Byzantine Christianity