Across
- 3. split the main faction of Christianity into two divisions, Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox
- 4. a large area of flat unforested grassland in southeastern Europe or Siberia.
- 5. city founded by the Roman emperor Constantine the Great as capital of the eastern part of the Roman Empire
- 10. a picture or pattern produced by arranging together small colored pieces of hard material, such as stone, tile, or glass
- 11. collections of laws and legal interpretations developed under the sponsorship of the Byzantine emperor Justinian I from 529 to 565 ce
- 12. an alphabet derived from the Greek alphabet and used for writing Slavic languages
Down
- 1. a religious tradition rooted in preserving the Greek identity
- 2. an emperor of Russia before 1917
- 6. head of the Greek Orthodox Church
- 7. a converted former church and mosque and a major cultural and historical site in Istanbul, Turkey
- 8. a painting of Jesus Christ or another holy figure, typically in a traditional style on wood, venerated and used as an aid to devotion in the Byzantine and other Eastern Churches
- 9. a body of Mongols that overran eastern Europe in the 13th century and dominated Russia until 1486