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History Chapter 9-10
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| persons such as priests given authority to conduct religious service | clergy |
| church members who are not clergy | laity |
| a christian religious image or picture | icon |
| an opponent of the use of icons in byzantine churches | iconoclast |
| division of the christian church in 1054 that seperated the roman catholic church and the eastern orthodox church | schism |
| study of religious questions | theology |
| person who acts as a temporary ruler | regent |
| picture made up of tiny pieces of colored glass, tile, or stone set in morter | mosaic |
| book page decorated by hand with elaborate designs, beautiful lettering, or miniature paintings | illuminated manuscript |
| a community of men who have taken religious vows | monastery |
| person who travels to carry the ideas of a religion to others | missionary |
| wide, grassy, semiarid plains of eurasia, from the black sea to the altai mountains | steppe |
| territory ruled by a prince | principality |
| a landowning noble of early russia | boyar |
| title taken by rulers of russia beginning in the late 1400's | czar |
| soldiers mounted on horseback | cavalry |
| system by which government offices are given on the basis of examinations | civil service |
| member of the elite class of civil servants in chinese government | mandarin |
| a system of moral principles that guide behavior | ethics |
| children's respect for their parents, an important principle in confucian ethics | filial peity |
| in chinese thinking, the opposing principles present in all nature | yin and yang |
| group of people organized according to levels of rank or importance | heirarchy |
| family group including several generations as well as other relatives | extended family |
| family group consisting only of parents and children | nuclear family |
| traditional technique of chinese medicine using thin needles at vital body parts | acupuncture |