Byzantine Empire Vocabulary

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Art consisting of a design made of small pieces of stone/glass

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mosaic

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the legal code of ancient Rome (basis for many modern systems of law)

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Justinian Code

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Christian Church of the West

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Roman Catholic

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A representation of a sacred person, as Christ or a saint or angel

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Icons

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Walls that surround and protect the city of Constantinople

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Theodosian Walls

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the official split between Eastern and Western Christian Churches

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Great Schism

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Byzantine stadium for chariot races and horse shows

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Hippodrome

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relating to the christian church (Byzantine) not under the authority of the pope

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Orthodox

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the bishop of Rome as head of the Roman Catholic Church

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Pope

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A society that developed in the Eastern Roman Empire

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Byzantine Empire