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Ch.11
Byzantine, Russian and Turkish Empires
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who was Justinian? | A powerful ruler of the Byzantine Empire, that restructured the Hagia Sophia and Constantinople. |
| How did Justinian make Constantinople a strong and beautiful capital? | He created Justinian Code and built structures to protect the city and created public places like schools, courts, etc. |
| What weakened the Byzantine Empire? | Constant warfare; shrinking the empire in 1350 and eventually being conquered by the Muslim Turks and the Bubonic Plague |
| What was the difference between religious leaders in the Eastern and Roman Churches? | In the East there was an autocrat and the West a pope. |
| What factors led to the schism in the East? | separateness from Rome and the emperor banning icons |
| What was Justinian's Code? | a body of civil law that controlled Byzantine life |
| What type of leader headed the church in Eastern Orthodox? | the patriarch and other bishops |
| Why was the Cyrillic alphabet, named after St. Cyril, invented? | so that Slavic people could read the Bible in their own languages |
| Which prince of Moscow led the Russians to freedom from the Mongols? | Ivan the Great;Ivan the III |
| What Russian emperor left a legacy of absolute rule? | Ivan the Terrible; Ivan IV |
| Under which Kievan ruler did all of the citizens of Kiev convert to Byzantine Christianity? | Vladimir |
| Which people's traditions were combined with those of the Greek Byzantines to provide the foundation for Russian culture? | boyars |
| Which term is the title of the Russian emperor and is the Russian version of the term "Caesar"? | czar;tsar |
| Name three effects of Mongol rule on Russia. | had Russians pay taxes, created Moscow-city of power, and united areas under one central authority |
| What caused Kiev's decline? | Yaroslav the Wise's death caused his sons to fight for control of the land |
| Which Russian prince and military hero advised his fellow princes to cooperate with the Mongols? | Alexander Nevsky |
| Which people came from the forest region north of the Black Sea? | Vikings |
| What was Russia's first important city? | Novgorod |
| What empire did the Russian Empire reflect on mostly? | Byzantium |
| What was the group that ruled the Muslim Empire and eventually struggled and was conquered? | Turks |
| Who did the Seljuks prize for their labor and loyalty? | Turkish children that were sold to them as slaves, trained as soldiers, and employed as bodyguards |
| Who was a caliph? and what did they do when Persia moved into the picture? | an Islamic religious or political leader that gave up political rule but continued religiously after Persian armies moved into Baghdad |
| What was a powerful force in the Abbasid Empire? | Turkish military services (mamelukes) |
| Who were the Seljuks? | one of the first migrating Turkish groups that was family led and grew in number and strength |
| what was the historical event that caused Turkish forces to crush Byzantine defenders, Seljuks to occupy Anatolia of Byzantium and the Turks to be closest to Constantinople than the Arabs or Persians had ever been before? | Battle of Manzikert(1071) |
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