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Across 5. The _______________________is a period of a thousand years from 500 to 1500 AD. 7. What country the William the Conqueror conquer? 8. The leaders of Russia had the title of ______________, which was Russian for Caesar. 9. Rome fell to ______________________tribes. 11. Who used the Cyrillic Alphabet? 12. The Byzantine Empire was the _____________________part of the old Roman Empire.

Down 1. During the Middle Ages, ______________________, controlled the eastern Mediterrean region. 2. The ____________is an ancient fortress which housed the government of the former Soviet Union. 3. The Byzantine Empire patterned most of its laws and its style of government on ___________________. 4. The greatest achievement of _________________was organizing and writing down a complete code of law. 6. Things were so bad in many ways during the Middle Ages that some historians refer to this period as the _____________________. 10. ___________________were small objects with pictures of religious figures that some felt to be idols.