Across
- 2. pattern made by arranging together small colored pieces of hard material
- 4. male head of a group
- 7. religious figures
- 8. Russian version of Caesar
- 9. Horde extended from Siberia and Central Asia to parts of Eastern Europe
- 10. Orthodox any one of three classes of Christian churches, each associated in some way with Greek Christianity
- 11. crosses the Russian plain, south of the taiga, penetrating deep into Siberia
Down
- 1. Code collections of laws and legal interpretations developed under the sponsorship of the Byzantine emperor Justinian I from 529 to 565 ce
- 3. Sophia the largest cathedral in all of Christendom
- 5. historical city on the Bosphorus
- 6. alphabet writing system used for various languages
- 9. Schism a split between the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church