Question | Answer |
capital of the Byzantine Empire,called the "New Rome" today the city of Istanbul | Constantinople |
holy image of christ,the virgin mary,or a saint venerated in the eastern orthodoy church | Icon holy image of christ,the virgin mary,or a saint venerated in the eastern orthodoy church |
Byzantine emperor from 527 to 565 who was noted for a code of laws and many beautiful buildings | Justinian |
in the Byzantine emmpire, highest church officecial in a major city | patriarch |
permanent division in a church | schism |
wife of justinian and championn of the rights of women | theodora |
young person learning a trade from a master | apprentice |
a contagious disease that decasted the world in the 1300's | bubonic plague |
body of laws of a church | canon law |
money or wealth | capital |
founder of an empire reaching across france,germany,and part of italyaround 800 AD | charlemagne |
in the middle ages a written doc that set out the rights and privileges of a town | charter |
code of conduct for knights during the middle ages | chivalry |
serious of religious war fought between christians are muslims from the late 1000's to the mid 100's | crusades |
out break of a rapidly spreading disease | epidemic |
exclusion from the roman catholic church as a penatly for refusing to obey church laws | excommunication |
in the middle ages,association of merchants or artisians who cooperated to protect their ecomic interests | guild |
in the roman catholic church,excommunication of an entire region,town,or kingdom | interdict |
noble in europe who served as a mounted warrior for a lord in the middle ages | knight |
an economic system structured a lords mororor estate | manorialism |
person deoicated to spreading a religion | missionary |
in medieval europe,peasant bound to the lords land | serf |
payment to a church equal to one tanth of a persons income | tithe |
in medieval europe, a lord who was granted land in exchange for service and loyalty to a greater lord | vassal |
ruler who has complete authority | autocrat |
alphabet that become the written script of russia | cyrillic |
scandinavian seafearing conquerors of russia traded on russian rivers | vikings |
title of the ruler of the russian empire | czar |
system of law that is the some for all people, based on court desicions they have become accepted legal principles | common law |
a charter signed by the english king john in 1215 that placed limits on the kings power | magna carta |
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