Unit 7- Vocabulary Flashcards
Illuminated manuscript
Book page decorated by hand with elaborate designs, beautiful lettering, or miniature paintings
Clergy
Persons, such as priests, given authority to conduct religious services
Monastery
Community of men who have taken religious leaders vows
Mosaic
Picture made up of tiny pieces of colored glass, tile, or stone set in mortar
Czar
(from “Caesar”) title taken by rulers of Russia beginning in the late 1400s
Hagia Sophia
Largest, most beautiful church in Constantinople empire
Emperor Justinian
Popular emperor of Constantinople who dreamed to restore the Roman Empire and was some part of Justinian’s Code
Prince Vladimir of Kiev
Abandoned old beliefs and adopted a new religion that he thought would help Eastern Slavs become a more powerful civilization
Ivan III of Russia
Brought many of the Eastern Slavic principalities under his rule
Corpus of Civil Law
(Justinian’s Code) preserved Rome’s legal heritage & later became the basis for most European legal systems. All recorded in a collection of books
Cyrillic Alphabet
An alphabet for the Slavic languages devised by Cyril. Used by Russians, Ukrainians, Bulgarians, & Serbs
Slavs
One of the largest groups living in Eastern Europe used a mixture of Russia Asia cultures
Ottoman Turks
New invaders from Central Asia who attack eastern provinces
Laity
Church members who are not clergy
Icon
A Christian religious image or picture
