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. split the main faction of Christianity into two divisions, Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox.
8. It became the name applied to the Christian Church that grew and flourished in the eastern, predominantly Greek speaking regions of the late 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
12. a large area of flat unforested grassland in southeastern Europe or Siberia.

1. The highest-ranking bishops in Eastern Orthodoxy, Oriental Orthodoxy, the Catholic Church, the Hussite Church, Church of the East
3. Grand Mosque is a converted former church and mosque and a major cultural and historical site in present-day Istanbul, Turkey.
4. a title used by Slavic monarchs. The term is derived from the Latin word caesar, which was intended to mean emperor in the European medieval sense
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. Important religious figures/sacred art such as christ and the Virgin