Vocab #6

2. closely based on the Greek alphabet, with about a dozen additional letters invented to represent Slavic sounds not found in Greek
6. created the two largest denominations in Christianity—the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox faiths
8. The Orthodox Church believes the Holy Spirit "proceeds from God the Father,"
10. a picture or decoration made of small, usually colored pieces of inlaid stone, glass, etc.
11. collections of laws and legal interpretations developed under the sponsorship of the Byzantine emperor Justinian
12. a large area of flat unforested grassland in southeastern Europe or Siberia

1. he highest-ranking bishops in Eastern Orthodoxy
3. Grand Mosque is a converted former church and mosque and a major cultural and historical site in Istanbul, Turkey
4. an emperor of Russia before 1917
5. the capital of the Roman Empire during the reign of Constantine the Great in 330.
7. a political entity established in the 13 century and ruled initially by Batu Khan
9. a religious work of art, most commonly a painting, in the cultures of the Eastern orthodox