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21) The eastern half of the Roman Empire survived after the fifth century as the __________.
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The __________, the peninsula including Macedonia and Greece plus what became Bulgaria, was controlled by the Byzantine Empire.
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__________ was the official language of the Eastern Empire from the reign of Justinian.
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The Byzantine emperor __________ was responsible for the attempted reconstruction of the political unity of the ancient Roman Empire.
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One of the major works of architecture completed during the reign of Justinian was the huge church called __________.
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__________ was the courtesan who became wife and advisor to Justinian.
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One of the generals responsible for Justinian's reconquest of North Africa and Italy was __________.
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One of the military technological achievements of the Byzantine Empire was the invention of __________, a weapon used against the Arab fleets.
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The Slavic kingdom established in the northern portions of the Balkan peninsula as a major rival to the Byzantine Empire was __________.
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The emperor responsible for the defeat of the Bulgars in the eleventh century was __________.
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Images of religious figures that became objects of veneration in Byzantine Christianity were __________.
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When a Byzantine emperor attempted to suppress the veneration of painted images, he initiated __________, a religious controversy that split the eastern Church.
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In 1204 a crusade led by __________ merchants conquered Byzantium and temporarily unseated the Byzantine emperor.
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The form of Christianity that developed in Byzantium and spread to Russia and the Balkans was referred to as __________ Christianity.
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In 864 the Byzantine government sent the missionaries __________ north to carry Orthodox Christianity to the Slavic regions.
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The alphabet devised by Orthodox missionaries for the Slavic peoples was called __________ after one of the evangelists.
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The trade city established by Scandinavian traders in southern Russia in the ninth century, __________, became the focal point for the kingdom of Russia that flourished to the twelfth century.
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The legendary Scandinavian who theoretically established the first kingdom of Russia was __________.
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__________ took its name from the Greek word for red, applied to the hair color of many of the Norse traders.
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The Russian ruler responsible for converting the country to Christianity was __________.
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__________ was the last of the great Kievan rulers who issued a legal code based on Byzantine models.
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Russian aristocrats or __________ had less political power than their counterparts in Western Europe.
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In 1236 a large force of Mongols, called according to Russian tradition __________, captured the major Russian cities.
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