-Byzantine Empire Vocabulary-

Justinian: Byzantine emperor who held the eastern frontier of his empire against
the Persians; codified Roman law in 529; his general Belisarius regained North
Africa and Spain (483-565)

Justinian Code : the legal code of ancient Rome; codified under Justinian; the
basis for many modern systems of civil law.

Hagia Sophia: a 6th century masterpiece of Byzantine architecture in Istanbul;

built as a Christian church, converted to a mosque in 1453, and made into a
museum in the middle of the 20th century

Patriarch: A patriarch is a male leader. Your father might be the patriarch of

your family, but your kid brother could be the patriarch of his club house.

Icon: are sacred images representing the saints, Christ, and the Virgin, as well
as narrative scenes such as Christ's Baptism (2013.980a–d) and Crucifixion.

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Excommunication: is a formal way of describing what happens when someone
gets kicked out of his or her church, for good.

Cyrillic Alphabet: an alphabet derived from the Greek alphabet and used for
writing Slavic languages (Russian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Ukrainian, and some
other Slavic languages)

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