Across
- 6. one of the Old Testament fathers of the human race or of the Hebrew people
- 7. of great power
- 8. prince of Novgorod and then grand prince of Vladimir
- 9. the ruler of Russia until the 1917 revolution.
- 10. the practice of keeping sheep, cattle, or other grazing animals'
- 15. the first and only woman emperor of China
- 16. an ethnic group of people who share a long-term cultural continuity and who speak a set of related languages known as the Slavic languages
- 18. exclusion from the sacraments, notably the Eucharist, and in its harshest form separation from the communion of the faithful
- 20. sacred images representing the saints, Christ, and the Virgin, as well as narrative scenes such as Christ's Baptism (2013.980a–d) and Crucifixion.
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- 1. closely based on the Greek alphabet, with about a dozen additional letters invented to represent Slavic sounds not found in Greek
- 2. Grand Prince of Kiev from 1016 until his death in 1954
- 3. created the largest empire ever to exist, spanning the entire Asian continent from the Pacific Ocean to modern-day Hungary in Europe
- 4. a legal code
- 5. upper or ruling class
- 11. second emperor of the Tang Dynasty
- 12. Grand prince of Moscow
- 13. Byzantine emperor who held the eastern frontier of his empire against the Persians
- 14. a group of people united by actual or perceived kinship and descent
- 17. the principal church of the Byzantine Empire in its capital, Constantinople (later Istanbul), and a mosque
- 19. a method of printing text that involves arranging separate characters or letters on metal pieces.