Byzantine Empire Vocab

a religious community

• tribe

• clan

• monastery

• excommunicate

originally: a person who destroyed icons; today: someone who criticizes traditional beliefs or practices

• schism

• reform

• iconoclast

• saints

to declare that a person or group no longer belong to the church

• kick out

• excommunicate

• iconoclast

• schism

Christian holy people

• schism

• reform

• saints

• rebels

patterns or pictures made from small pieces of colored glass or stone

• calligraphy

• origami

• mosaic

• iconoclast

separation or division

• monastery

• icon

• schism

• saints

To enlarge; to spread out

• To shrink
• To expand
• To contract
• To reduce

to bring something back to the original state?

• To destroy

• To upgrade

• To restore

• To abandon