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Byzantines and Slavs
Chapter 10
Vocabulary terms (please define using two or more sentences)
Clergy
Laity
Icon
Iconoclast
Schism
Constantine
Justinian
Theodora
Leo III
Theology
Regent
Mosaic
Illuminated manuscript
Monastery
Missionary
Cyril
Methodius
the Seljuk Turks
the Ottoman Turks
Tiridates III
Tamara
Venice
Armenia
Georgia
Bulgaria
Serbia
Steppe
Principality
Boyar
Czar
the Slavs
Rurik
Vladimir of Kiev
Yaroslav
the Mongols
Alexander Nevsky
Ivan II
Dnieper River
Kiev
Novgorod
Moscow
Short Answer Questions (complete answer should result in several sentences)
1. How were the Byzantine emperors and the Christian Church linked?
2. How did religious disputes, such as the iconoclastic controversy, affect the political
affairs of the Byzantine Empire?
3. How did Justinian’s reign contribute to world civilization?
4. How did the split between eastern and western Christians influence Byzantine
decline?
5. What was the role of art and religion in the Byzantine and neighboring kingdom?
How did Christianity affect it?
6. Compare the role of the Orthodox Church in Kievan Rus and Moscow.
7. What Roman traditions became part of Russia’s culture? How did Russia’s culture
differ from the culture of Western Europe? Why?
8. How does conflict—such as the iconoclastic controversy in the Byzantine Empire—
weaken a government?