Vocab #6

1. An alphabet derived from the Greek alphabet and used for writing Slavic languages.
5. A split divided the European Christian church into two major branches: the Western Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church.
7. The legal code of ancient Rome; codified under Justinian; the basis for many modern systems of civil law.
10. 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.
11. A large area of flat unforested grassland in southeastern Europe or Siberia.
12. The name applied to the Christian Church that grew and flourished in the eastern, predominantly Greek speaking regions of the late Roman Empire.

2. An emperor of Russia before 1917.
3. The former name for Istanbul, a city that was the capital of Turkey until 1923
4. Any of those biblical figures regarded as fathers of the human race, especially Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and their forefathers, or the sons of Jacob.
6. A picture or pattern produced by arranging together small colored pieces of hard material, such as stone, tile, or glass.
8. Russian designation for the Ulus Juchi, the western part of the Mongol empire, which flourished from the mid-13th century to the end of the 14th century.
9. A mosque and major cultural and historical site in Istanbul, Turkey. Originally a Greek Orthodox Church.