World History Unit 2 Vocab

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Belief in one god

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Monotheism

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Belief in many gods

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Polytheism

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The process by which a soul is reborn continuously

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Reincarnation

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Effects of actions determining next reincarnation

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Karma

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Diaspora

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A dispersion of people from their homeland

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Continuation of the Roman Empire in its eastern provinces.

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Byzantine Empire

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Byzantine emperor in the 6th century who created a code of laws, Hagia Sophia, and conjured the western Roman lands.

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Justinian

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Split from Roman Catholicism; popular in Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire.

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Orthodox Church

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Capital of the Byzantine Empire

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Constantinople

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Split of the church: Roman Catholic & Orthodox

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Schism of 1054