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Byzantine and Middle Ages
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Social Studies
6th Grade
05/23/2018

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Byzantine Empire
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an empire of lands formerly part of the Roman Empire with its center at the city of Constantinople
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Justinian Code
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laws of the ancient Romans collected by Byzantine scholars and organized into a code of laws for the Byzantine Empire under Emperor Justinian
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Hagia Sophia
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a great domed cathedral in Constantinople (present day Istanbul, Turkey)
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Middle Ages
Definition
a period in European history that lasted from about 500 to about 1500
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Bubonic Plague
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an epidemic spread to humans by fleas from rats
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