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Italian explorer who traveled throughout Asia, lived among

the Mongols, and recorded his experiences in a journal

• Marco Polo

• Enzo Arzani

• Amerigo Vespucci

• Leonardo da Vinci

Significant emperor of the Byzantine Empire, known mostly for his code of laws

• Emperor Justinian

• Heraclius
• Theodosius II
• Constantine IV

Religious symbols/pictures used in worship by the Roman

Catholic Church, leading to Church controversy

• Hymnals

• Tsars

• Icons

• Kievs

Became the capital of Russia and its most important city;

known by many as the 'Third Rome'

• St. Petersburg
• Kiev
• Moscow
• Minsk

Group of nomadic warriors who conquered most of Asia

and parts of Eastern Europe, including Russia, and created a vast empire

• Ottomans
• Huns
• Vikings
• Mongols

Set of laws that included useful Roman laws and important

rules for the Byzantines, influencing modern laws

• Justinian's Code

• Twelve Tables
• Code of Hammurabi
• Rosetta Stone

Important city in Russia, center of trade networks, and the

Russian capital for several centuries

• Moscow
• Kiev

• St. Petersburg
• Yekaterinburg

Russian ruler who converted to Christianity and made it

the official religion in Russia

• Ivan the Terrible
• Peter the Great
• Catherine the Great
• Vladimir the Great

Wife of Justinian, important advisor to the emperor, and

famous advocate for women's rights

• Empress Aelia

• Empress Sofia

• Empress Antonia

• Empress Theodora

Ruler who expelled the Mongols and unified Russia as an

independent empire

• Catherine the Great
• Boris Godunov
• Peter the Great
• Ivan (III)