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"Greek Fire" Alexius Comnenus Avars, Bulgars, and Slavs Basil I Basil II Battle of Manzikert Belisarius Byzantine Empire Byzantine text Byzantium Cathedral of Hagia Sophia Christendom Constantinople Cyril and Methodius Cyrillic alphabet Easter Orthodox Church Emperor Heraclius Empress Theodora Greek liturgy Icon Iconoclastic Controversy Justinian Code Justinian I Leo III Lomards and Nomads Mohammed II Persians Seljuk Turks Themes

secret weapon of the empire; compare to a flamethrower came up with crusades to help save the empire invaded the empire from the north led a restoration of Byzantium's power greatest height of the Byzantium Empire since the days of Justinian the Great win by the Seljuk Turks that allowed them to threaten the empire general who attempted to restore Rome to it's original glory Eastern empire; survived the fall of the western empire basis of Ersasmus's 1516 edition of the Greek New Testament made the new capital of the Roman Empire in AD 324 "Holy Wisdom"; the most magnificent church building of the early Middle Ages and the greatest achievement of Byzantine architecture the portion of the world in which Christianity was the dominant religion name of New Rome after Rome divided Apostles to the Slavs foundation for the Russian and Slavic alphabets the Greek Orthodox Church defeated the Avars and Persians intelligent wife of Justinian a public worship service of superstition, symbolism, and pageantry abstract, simplified image of picture of Christ, Mary, or one of the saints whether to make images for the church Justinian's greatest personal achievement; combination of Roman law with Biblical principles first great leader of the Byzantine Empire responsible for saving Constantinople during the second seige invaded Italy; attacked empire from the west the Conquerer invaded the empire from the east new invaders that took over much of the Middle East divisions of the empire that were military provinces to provide a better defense and more efficient rule

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