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Down: 1) Brought much of Northern Russia under his rule and built the framework for absolute power. Referred to himself as Tsar4) Ivan IV grandson of Ivan the Great, became first Russian ruler officially crowned Tsar, started Oprichniki and Russia tradition of extreme absolute power5) Byzantine emperor who ruled from 527-565, brought Byzantine empire to its peak6) Holy image of Christ, the Virgin Mary, or a saint venerated in the Eastern Orthodox Church8) The Hungarian king was forced to sign a charter recognizing nobles' rights. It strictly limited royal power.9) Collection of Roman laws organized by the Byzantine emperor Justinian and later serving as a model for the Catholic Church and medieval monarchs10) the capital of the Eastern Roman empire; capital of the Byzantine and Ottoman empires, now called Istanbul.11) The official split between the Roman Catholic and Byzantine churches that occurred in 105415) Capital of medieval Russia and of present-day Ukraine16) in the Roman and Byzantine empires, highest Church official in a major city. Across: 2) sole ruler with complete authority3) Assembly 7) Justinian's Wife who aided him.12) The mongol armies that invaded Europe in 1237 and ruled Russia for over 2 centuries13) great landowning nobles14) Roughly triangular arm of land, often simply called the Balkans, juts southward into the warm Mediterranean17) Sparse, Dry Treeless grassland18) Title of the ruler of the Russian empire; Russian word for Caesar19) a large group of people who share the same language and cultural heritage.20) Relating to the Slavic alphabet derived from the Greek and traditionally attributed to St. Cyril; in modified form still used in modern Slavic language
 

 

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