Vocab #6

3. A body of Mongols that overran eastern Europe in the 13th century and dominated Russia until 1486
7. A city founded by the Roman emperor Constantine the Great as capital of the eastern part of the Roman Empire
8. The last of three church buildings to be successively erected on the site by the Eastern Roman Empire
12. The alphabet based principally on the Greek uncials that was originally used for writing Old Church Slavonic

1. A collection of laws and legal interpretations developed under the sponsorship of the Byzantine emperor Justinian
2. The name applied to the Christian Church that grew and flourished in the eastern, predominantly Greek speaking regions of the late Roman Empire
4. any of those biblical figures regarded as fathers of the human race
5. The ongoing break of communion between the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches that began in 1054
6. A large area of flat unforested grassland in southeastern Europe or Siberia
9. A painting of Jesus Christ or another holy figure, venerated and used as an aid to devotion in the Byzantine and other Eastern Churches
10. A picture or pattern produced by arranging together small colored pieces of hard material, such as stone, tile, or glass
11. the ruler of Russia until the 1917 revolution