Module 4 Early Middle Ages Review Key Terms

Who was Justinian?

• In 527, he became the

  Byzantine emperor.

• leader of the Eastern Church

• formal declaration that someone is no longer a member of the

  Church

a body of Roman law collected and organized by Justinian around

AD 534

• patriarch

• Hagia Sophia

• Justinian Code

icons are religious image used in practices by Eastern Christians

• True

• False

What is a formal declaration that someone is no longer a member of the

Church?

• excommunication

• Icon

• Patriarch

Who invented the Cyrillic alphabet?

• Saints Cyril and Methodius

• Justinian

• patriarch

Who are the Slavs people?

• people from the forests north of the Black Sea

• people from Russia

• people from western europe

Who was Yaroslav the Wise?

• grand prince of Kiev; he converted to Orthodox Christianity in the 980s

  and made it the state religion

• Russian prince who gained power by working with the Mongols

• son of Vladimir; as Russian ruler he helped Kiev gain further

  power and wealth

what is a czar?

• Russian emperor

• people from the forests north of the Black Sea

• a strong soldier

who was Charlemagne?

• dynasty of Frankish rulers, lasting from 751 to 987

• Germanic people who held power in the Roman province called Gaul

• powerful Frankish ruler (768 to 814) who built a huge empire

The slow decline of the Roman

Empire marked the beginning of a new

era in European history called the

............................, It lasted from around 500

to 1500.

• Middle Ages

• Franks

• Carolingian Dynasty