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34 Cards in this Set
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Cyril, the priest, Created the English alphabet
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False
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For many years, was the center of Russia
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Kiev
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settled in most of Europe
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Slavs
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capital of the Byzantine Empire
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Constantinople
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Constantine lived during the _____.
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300s
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Czechoslovakia's smooth transition from a communist government to a democratic one was called the _________.
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velvet revolution
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The ____________ burned down Constantinople
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Crusaders
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Byzantine churches had _____.
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domes
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Turks for 500 years occupied most of the ________ _______.
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Balkan peninsula
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Before World War I, Austria-Hungary formed a _____ _______.
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dual monarchy
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the Chi Rho cross was the emblem of ________.
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Constantine
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Golden halos were painted over the heads of Bible characters in pictures known as ______.
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icons
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Public baths were built in Balkan countries by the ______.
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Romans
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The church followers who believed they held to the true faith are called ________.
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orthodox
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Patriarch is the Orthodox name for a ________.
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bishop
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A picture made of many small, colored stones is a ______.
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mosaic
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Carvings on a flat surface are called ____ ______.
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bas relief
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One province in Romania is __________.
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Transylvania
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After the burning of Constantinople by the Crusaders, the Byzantine empire was ______.
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fragmented
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The area around Istanbul, the Bosporus, and Asia Minor is now part of the country of ________.
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Turkey
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The early Slavs lived in villages of ________.
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families
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Poland is now ________
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a free nation
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Communism in Eastern Europe fell when it was no longer supported by ______ _____ ____.
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Soviet military force
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At elections in Soviet Russia under communism, people voted for candidates chosen by __ ______.
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the Politburo
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Stalin was ______.
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cruel
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Russia's capital
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Moscow
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Hungary's capital
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Budapest
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capital of the Czech Republic
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Prague
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Poland's capital
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Warsaw
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Germany's capital
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Berlin
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Bulgaria's capital
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Sofia
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Yugoslavia's capital
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Belgrade
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Albania's capital
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Tirane
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Romania's capital
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Bucharest
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