WHI: Unit 6 Vocab

the Christian church headed by the pope in Rome

• Orthodox Church

• Roman Catholic Church

• Greek Patriarchal Church

• Anglican Church

first czar of Russia, known for cruelty and being constantly at war

• Peter the Great

• Mikhail Romanov

• Ivan the Terrible

• Frederick the Great

Byzantine emperor in the 6th century A.D. who reconquered much of the territory previously ruler by Rome, initiated an ambitious building program , including Hagia Sofia, as well as a new legal code

• Muhuammad

• Theodora

• Death of Ali

• Justinian

the Cathedral of Holy Wisdom in Constantinople, built by order of the Byzantine emperor Justinian

• Hagia Sophia

• St. Basil

• The Cathedral Of St. Dimitri

• Theodora

a huge building in Constantinople and the site of the chariot races

• Belisarius

• Colosseum

• Hippodrome

• Amphitheater

the wife of Justinian, she helped to improve the status of women in the Byzantinian Empire and encouraged her husband to stay in Constntinople and fight the Nike Revolt.

• Constantine

• Theodora

• Sophia

• Charlemagne

the branch of Islam whose members acknowledge Ali and his descendants as the rightful successors of Muhammad

• Shia

• Sunni

• Sufi

• Umayyed

Christian followers in the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantine Empire); split from Roman Catholic Church and shaped life in eastern Europe and western Asia

• Eastern Orthodox Church

• Greek Orthodox Church

• Russian Orthodox Church

• Anglican Church

Final prophet in the Islamic religion; fouunder of the religion of islam.

• Sunni

• Shia

• Muhuammad

• Justinian

a Muslim group that accepts only the descendants of the Umayyads as the true rulers of Islam

• Sufi

• Shiite

• Sunni

• Christian