Across
- 2. holy images
- 5. a driving force behind moscows sucsess was ivan III
- 6. strictly limited royal power
- 7. collection of roman laws organized by the byzantine emperor justinian
- 8. sat at a crossroad of land and sea routes and its great wealth came from trade
- 9. in 1054, other controversies provorted a schism, or split between eastern & western christianity
- 10. capital of present day ukranine, center of the first russian state
- 12. triangular arm of land that juts from southeastern europe into the mediteranian
- 14. invaders looted and burned kiev and other russian towns
- 15. sole ruler with complete authority
- 16. the byzantine empire reached its peek under the emperor justinian who ruled from 527 to 565
- 17. russian word for ceaser
- 18. wife of justinian
Down
- 1. an open, treeless grassland
- 3. alphabet became the written script that is still useful today in russia
- 4. the tsars awesome power, and the ways he used it
- 11. group of people who share the same language and culture heritiage
- 13. highest church offical, in constinople
- 19. meat in an assembly