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Chapter 11
Byzantines, Russians and Turks Interact
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Justinian | Emperor of Byzantine empire, Expanded the empire |
| Justinian code | the body of the roman civil law collected and organized by the order of the Byzantine emperor Justinian around A.D 534 |
| Hagia Sophia | the Cathedral of Holy Wisdom in Constantinople, built by order of the Byzantine emperor Justinian |
| Patriach | a principle bishop in the eastern branch of Christinanity |
| Icons | religious images used by eastern Christians |
| Excommunication | the taking away of a person's right of membership in a Christian church |
| Cyrillic alphabet | an alphabet for the writing of the Slavic languages, devised in the ninth century A.D by the Saints Cyril and Methodius |
| Slavs | a people from the forests north of the Black sea, ancestors of many people in Eastern Europe today |
| Vladimir | Russian Czar who converted Russians to Byzantine Christianity |
| Yarsolav the wise | Forged important trading alliances, built the first library, and under his rule Christianity prospered |
| Alexander Nevsky | agreed to cooperate with the Mongols |
| Ivan the 3rd | Broke from mongol rule |
| Czar | a Russian emperor (from the Roman title Caesar) |
| Seljuks | a Turkish group who migrated into the Abbasid Empire in the 10th century and established their own empire in the 11th century |
| Vizier | a prince minister in a Muslim kingdom or empire |
| Malik Shah |