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Alexander Nevsky |
Novgorod's prince and military hero, advised fellow princes to cooperate with the Mongols |
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Batu Khan |
Grandson of Genghis Khan, led the Mongol attack and demolishment of Kiev |
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Belisarius |
Justinian's best general sent to recover North Africa from invading Germanic tribes, attacked and seized Rome from the Ostrogoths |
He was a general |
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Boyars |
Russia's landowning nobles |
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Byzantine Empire |
Ruled by Justinian, often called New Rome, emperors ruled with absolute power, appointed and dismissed bishops at will, brutal politics (88 emperors- 29 died violently, 13 abondoned throne to live in monasteries), used Justinian Code |
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Byzantium |
Capitol of the Byzantine Empire |
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Cheif Rurik |
Viking Cheif invited by Slavs to be their king (according to Russian legend), founded Novgorod |
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Constantinople |
Formerly Byzantium, name changed by Constantine |
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Crusades |
Series of military campaigns between Christians and Muslims (Turks) for control of the holy land |
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Cyrillic Alphabet |
Alphabet that Saint Cyrill and Saint Methodius invented for the Slavs, many Slavic languages written in it |
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Czar |
Russian version of Ceasar, created by Ivan the third, only became official during the reign of Ivan the fifth |
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Eastern Orthodox |
Built on its heritage on the works of early church fathers, conducted in Greek |
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Emperor Leo the third |
Banned the use of icons in the church |
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Empress Theodora |
Wife of Justinian, urged him to stay during the Nika Rebellion, advisor to her husband, actress with well deserved reputation for immoral living, joined the Monophysites |
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Genghis Khan |
Mongol ruler who was one of the most feared rulers of all time. Known for savage killing and ruthless brutality, grandfather to Batu Khan |
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Great Schism of 1054 |
Splitting of the Church (East/West) |
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Hagia Sophia |
Crowing glory of Justinian's reign, church whose name means "Holy Wisdom" in Greek |
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Hippodrome |
The horse racecourse of Constantinople |
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Hulagu |
Genghis's grandson who took Baghdad, burned down the caliph's palace, and killed tens of thousands of people (had last Abbisad caliph excecuted by wrapping him in a carpet and having him trampled to death by horses) |
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Icon |
Religious image used by Eastern Christians to aid their devotions |
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Isfahan |
The Persian city that the founder of the Seljuk Dynasty chose as the capitol of his kingdom |
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Istanbul |
Formerly Constantinople, formerly Byzantium |
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Ivan I |
Earned Mongol gratitude by helping crush a Russian revolt under Mongol rule, appointed tax collector of all Slavic lands conquered by the Mongols, given title "Grand Prince", known as "Ivan Moneybag", convinced the patriarch of Kiev to move to Moscow , used land purchases Wars trickery and shrewd marriages to enlarge his territory |
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Ivan the Third |
Prince of Moscow who openly challenged Mongol rule , publicly claimed his intent to make Russia The Third Rome, gave himself the title czar |
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Justinian |
High-ranking Byzantine nobleman who succeeded the throne, had General Belisarius, married to Empress Theodora, called himself the new Caesar, built the church Hagia Sophia |
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Justinian Code |
Code created by Justinian that consisted of food for works , the code which contained nearly 5,000 Roman laws that were still considered useful for the Byzantine Empire, the digest quoted and summarized to the opinions of Rome's greatest legal thinkers about laws, the institute's was a textbook that told law students how to use the laws, The novella presented legislation passed after 534 |
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Khanate of the Golden Horde |
Official name of the empire that the Mongols ruled , Khanate from the Mongol word for Kingdom , golden because gold was the royal color of the Mongols; Horde from the Mongol word for camp |
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Kiev |
Russian city |
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Malik Shah |
One of the most famous seljuk Sultan's |
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Mamelukes |
Turkish military slaves |
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Mongol |
A group of ferocious nomads |
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Moscow |
Capital city of Russia |
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Nika Rebellion |
Two fan groups from a sporting event sparked city-wide riots called the Nika Rebellion, Nika means Victory, both sides were angry with the government, gov't put a riot down in the Hippodrome many people were killed |
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Novgorod |
Russia's first important city |
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Oleg of Novgorod |
A nobleman from Novgorod who Moved South to Kiev |
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Orthodox Christianity |
Services are conducted in Greek, the patriarch and other Bishops head the church as a group, The Emperor claims authority over the patriarch and other Bishops of the Empire, priests may be married, divorce is allowed under certain conditions, from the East |
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Patriarch |
Leading Bishop of the East |
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Persia |
Modern Day Iran |
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Pope Gregory 11 |
Defied Byzantine emperor Leo the Third |
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Pope Gregory III |
Disturbed by the controversy in the Byzantine Empire |
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Pope Urban 11 |
Launch the first crusade in 1095 , called Christians to drive the Turks out of Anatolia and recover Jerusalem from Muslim rule |
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Princess Olga |
Governed Kiev untill her son was old enough to rule, paid a visit to Constantinople and publicly converted to Christianity, son resisted Christianity, grandmother of Vladimir |
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Romulus Augustulus |
Emperor of Western Empire , apparently an assistant to Attila the Hun |
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Saint Cyrill |
Created the Cyrillic Alphabet |
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Saint Methodious |
Also created Cyrillic Alphabet |
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Saladin |
Famous Kurdish captain of the Muslims who recovered Jerusalem in 1187 , signed a truce with his Western opponent King Richard the first of England their agreement gave Jerusalem to the Muslims but granted Western pilgrims access to Christian holy places |
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Seljuks |
Turks who began converting to Islam and slowly migrating to the weakened Abbasid Empire |
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Slavs |
Beginning of Russian Empire, invited Viking Chief grew up to be their King |
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Toghril Beg |
Founder of the Seljuk dynasty |
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Turks |
Converted to Islam |
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Vikings |
Small bands of adventurers |
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Vizier |
Prime minister |
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Vladimir |
Olga's grandson, converted to Christianity, made all subjects convert too,expanded West onto Poland and North almost to the Baltic Sea, fought iff troublesome nomads from the steppes |
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Yaroslav the Wise |
Vladimir's son, married off daughters and sisters to kings/princes of Europe, built first library in Kiev, Christianity prospers |
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