Vocab frames

BY:GENO ANKAWI

Constantinople
Constantinople was the capital city of the Roman/Byzantine, the
Latin, and the Ottoman empires. It was reinaugurated in 324 AD at
ancient Byzantium, as the new capital of the Roman Empire

Justinian
Justinian I, traditionally known as Justinian the Great and also Saint
Justinian the Great in the Eastern Orthodox Church, was a Byzantine
emperor from 527 to 565

Justinians Code

The Corpus Juris Civilis is the modern name for a

collection of fundamental works in jurisprudence, issued
from 529 to 534 by order of Justinian I

Theodora
Theodora, was empress of the Byzantine Empire and the wife of Emperor
Justinian I. She was one of the most influential and powerful of the
Byzantine empresses. Some sources mention her as empress regnant with
Justinian I as her co-regent.

patriarch
the male head of a family or tribe.
any of those biblical figures regarded as fathers of the human race,
especially Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, their forefathers, or the sons of
Jacob.

Icon
icon is generally a flat panel painting depicting Jesus Christ, Mary, saints
and/or angels, which is venerated among Eastern Orthodox, Oriental
Orthodox, and in certain Eastern Catholic Churches.

Great Schism

The EastWest Schism, between the Eastern Church and the

Western Church in 1054. The Western Schism, a split within
the Roman Catholic Church that lasted from 1378 to 1417.

steppe
a large area of flat unforested grassland in southeastern Europe or Siberia.

Cyrillic
an alphabetic writing system employed across Eastern Europe and north
and central Asia. It is based on the Early Cyrillic, which was developed
during the First Bulgarian Empire in the 9th century AD at the Preslav
Literary School.

Golden Horde
The Golden Horde was a Mongol and later Turkicized khanate established in
the 13th century and originating as the northwestern sector of the Mongol
Empire.

Ivan the Great

Ivan III Vasilyevich, also known as Ivan the Great, was a Grand Prince of
Moscow and Grand Prince of all Rus.

tsar

an emperor of Russia before 1917.

Ivan the Terrible

Ivan IV Vasilyevich, commonly known as Ivan the Terrible, was the Grand
Prince of Moscow from 1533 to 1547 and Tsar of All the Russias from 1547
until his death.

Balkan Peninsula

The Balkan Peninsula, popularly referred to as the Balkans, is a

geographical region of Southeast Europe. The region takes its name from
the Balkan Mountains that stretch from the east of Serbia to the Black Sea at
the east of Bulgaria

ethnic group

An ethnic group or ethnicity is a socially defined category of people who

identify with each other based on common ancestral, social, cultural or
national experience.

Golden Bull of 1222

The Golden Bull of 1222 was a golden bull, or edict, issued by King Andrew II of
Hungary. King Andrew II was forced by his nobles to accept the Golden Bull
(Aranybulla), which was one of first examples of constitutional limits being placed
on the powers of a European monarch.

Kiev
The capital of early russia