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Which Roman Emperor moved the new capital of Rome to the East?
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Constantine
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Which Roman Emperor moved the new capital of Rome to the East?
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What was the name of the new capital of the Roman Empire in the East?
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Constantinople
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What was the name of the new capital of the Roman Empire in the East?
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What were the advantages to moving the capital of the Roman Empire east?
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1. better distance from Germanic invading tribes 4. Protection of the eastern frontier |
What were the advantages to moving the capital of the Roman Empire east?
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What was the role of Constantinople?
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1. Center of Trade 2. Seat of Byzantine Empire 3. Preserved Classical Greco-Roman Culture |
What was the role of Constantinople?
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What two seas were most important to Constantinople?
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Black and Aegean Seas
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What two seas were most important to Constantinople?
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What was the significance of Justinian's Code of Law?
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It simplified Roman Law and later influenced European laws of the Middle Ages.
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What was the significance of Justinian's Code of Law?
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What were accomplishments of the Byzantine empire under Emperor Justinian?
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1. Reconquest of former Roman territories 2. Codified Roman Law Code 3. Expansion of trade |
What were the accomplishments of the Byzantine empire under Justinian?
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Who was the wife of Justinian who played an instrumental role in convincing him to fight against protesters?
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Theodora
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Who was the wife of Justinian who played an instrumental role in convincing him to fight against protestors?
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Which emperor changed the official language of the Byzantine to Greek after his reign?
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Justinian
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Which emperor changed the official language of the Byzantine to Greek after his reign?
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What are achievements in art and architecture during the Byzantine Empire?
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1. Mosaics |
What are the achievements in art and architecture during the Byzantine Empire?
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What are differences between the Roman Catholic Church and the Greek Orthodox Church?
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Cath- pope infallible Orth- not infallible
Cath veneration in statues Orth verneration of icons Cath priests celibate Orth priests not celibate Cath mass in Latin Orth mass in Greek |
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The Roman Catholic Church was ruled by the ??? while the Orthodox Church was ruled by the ???
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Pope/Patriarch
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What does celibacy mean?
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cannot marry
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What does excommunication mean?
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no longer accepted as part of the Catholic Church
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When Justinian reconquered much of the previous lands of the Roman Empire, what was the effect on the Byzantine Empire?
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drained money and resources and weakened them with the Persians
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After Justinian's death, what happened to the Byzantine Empire?
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Lost many of the lands back to Germanic tribes and Persians attacked the empire.
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What areas did Justinian reconquer of the Roman provinces?
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Italy, Northern Africa, Balkans, southern part of Spain, Judea
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What area did Justinian not gain?
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Gaul-modern day France
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Where did the Vandals control which Justinian overthrew?
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North Africa
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Where did the Ostrogoths control which Justinian overthrew?
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Italy Know locations on map
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How did the Byzantine Empire influence Russia?
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missionaries
Orthodox Church cyrillic alpahbet Slavic After fall of Constantinople--Russia considered third Rome |
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Who was the main missionary responsible for teaching the Russians and their conversion?
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Cyril
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What trade route connected the Russian and Byzantine Empires?
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Black Sea
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What saint wrote the rules of the lives of monks in 356? In the Byzantine empire...
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Basil
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What means an art which is made from ceramics or glass tiles?
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mosaic
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The Byzantine Empire was responsible for preserving which culture?
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Greco-Roman
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How did the Byzantines preserve the Greco-Roman culture?
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In vast libraries
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The Byzantines controlled what key area for trade?
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Bosporus Strait Know on map
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After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, Byzantium lasted for another???? years?
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1000 years
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When did the Byzantine Empire fall and to whom?
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1453 AD to the Ottomans
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Identify the following picture. |
Icon
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Identify the following picture. |
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Identify the following picture. |
Mosaics
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Identify the following picture. |
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Identify the following building.
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Hagia Sophia "Holy Wisdom"
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Identify the following building.
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What inspired art and architecture in Byzantine times?
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Christian religion and imperial power |
What inspired art and architecture in Byzantine times?
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What is the seat of the Byzantine Empire and locate on a map? |
Constantinople |
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The Code of Justinian influenced? |
Civil Laws in Europe and simplified Roman laws |
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After the death of Justinian the emperor of Byzantine, what happened to the empire? |
was lost within 100 years |
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How were the 12 Tables and Justinian's Code similar? |
standardized system of laws |
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The Schism between the Catholic and Orthodox churches was due to: |
Papal interference in political and religious affairs of Byzantine Clerical Celibacy Type of Bread in ceremonies The leader controlled the Church differently |
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What was the Iconoclast Movement? |
When Emperor Leo III orders the destruction of icons of Orthodox Church-- later reversed decision |
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How was the Byzantine culture influencing Russia? |
Through trade |
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Know on a map the two seas which were connected with Byzantine Empire and Russia's trade network. |
Black up to Baltic Seas |
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What term would describe the influence and blending of culture between Byzantine Empire and Russia? |
Cultural Diffusion |
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What is this picture? |
onion domes |
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Which Czar held the torch for the Byzantine Empire after its fall and called his empire the Third Rome? |
Ivan III |
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The Byzantine Empire fell to the Ottoman Turks in 1453 CE and changed the name of Constantinople to? |
Istanbul |
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