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World History Ch 9
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Define Constantinople | THE CAPITAL OF BYZANTINE EMPIRE |
| Who is Justinian? | THE EMPEROR UNDER WHO THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE REACHED ITS PEAK |
| What is an autocrat? | A SOLE RULER WITH COMPLETE AUTHORITY |
| What is a patriarch? | THE HIGHEST OFFICIAL IN THE BYZANTINE CHURCH |
| What was the Great Schism? | THE SPLIT IN 1054 BETWEEN EASTERN & WESTERN CHRISTIANITY WAS REFERRED TO AS THE: |
| How did its location help Constantinople thrive? | It was a harbor city on a trade route guarded by water |
| One of Justinian's most important accomplishments | A revised code of Roman laws and writings |
| What was one difference between the Roman and Byzantine Churches before the Great Schism? | Byzantine Christians rejected the pope's claim to authority over all Christians |
| The Crusades began when Seljuk Turks: | threatened Jerusalem |
| An important contribution of the Byzantine empire: | blending of Christianity and Greek culture |
| Russia was filled with unrest following the death of: | Ivan the Terrible |
| The Russian language is written in what type of alphabet: | Cyrillic |
| The Mongols who invaded Russia were known as the: | Golden Horde |
| Ivan III sometimes referred to himself as: | tsar, the Russian word for Caesar |
| The term for the open grassland of Russia that offered no barrier to migration | steppe |
| Russia's rivers linked early Russians to: | The Byzantine empire |
| The Russian city was at the center of a vital trade network | Kiev |
| An event that occurred during the rule of Mongols in Russia | The princes of Moscow gained power and influence |
| How did Mongol rule affect Russia's relations with Western Europe? | It isolated Russia from European advances in science and art |
| What tradition did Ivan the Terrible introduce that shaped Russian history into the twentieth century? | extreme absolute power |
| Describe Balkan Peninsula | MOUNTAINOUS, TRIANGULAR ARM OF LAND THAT JUTS SOUTH INTO THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA |
| What is an ethnic group? | A LARGE GROUP OF PEOPLE WHO SHARE THE SAME LANGUAGE AND CULTURAL HERITAGE |
| What is the definition of diet? | AN ASSEMBLY |
| What was the Golden Bull of 1222? | A CHARTER THAT RECOGNIZED NOBLES' RIGHTS AND LIMITED THE POWER OF HUNGARIAN KINGS. |
| How did Eastern Europe's geography affect its development? | Goods and cultural influences traveled along the region's rivers |
| Why did Jewish refugees flee Western Europe? | persecution and expulsion |
| How was Poland unlike Russia or Western Europe? | Allowed nobles more power than the monarch |
| The Magyars were raiders from the Asian steppes who settled in: | Hungary |
| The Serbian state reached its height of power under: | Stefan Dusan |
| The South Slav country of Serbia was conquered in the late 1300s by the: | Ottoman Turks |
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