The Capital
Religion
Achievements
Russia
Collapse of the Byzantine Empire
100
This is the original name of the city that Constantine moved the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire to.
What is Byzantium or Constantinople?
100
This is the monotheistic religion practiced in the Byzantine Empire.
What is Christianity?
100
Following the fall of Rome, the emperor of the Byzantine Empire compiled Roman law and created a law code known as this.
What is Justinian's Code?
100
This empire greatly influenced Russia.
What is the Byzantine Empire?
200
These are the two continents for which Constantinople was the center of trade.
What are Europe and Asia?
200
Following the Schism, this church was centered in Constantinople.
What is the Eastern Orthodox Church?
200
Built in Constantinople, this was the main Eastern Orthodox Christian Church of the Byzantine Empire.
What is the Hagia Sophia?
200
This man helped to create an alphabet for the Slavic languages.
Who is St. Cyril?
300
This is the main sea to the northeast of Constantinople.
What is the Black Sea?
300
Following the Schism, this church utilized Latin in their liturgy.
What is the Catholic Church?
300
Based on imperial power and Christianity, this was the main artistic style of the Byzantine Empire featuring small tiles.
What are mosaics?
300
These were the two main seas that helped expand trade in Russia.
What are the Black Sea and the Baltic Sea?
300

This group of people toppled/conquer the Byzantine Empire in 1453.

Ottoman Turks
400
This is the type of geographical feature on which Constantinople is located.
What is a peninsula?
400
Known as this, the argument over the use of icons in the Christian Church helped lead to it's split in 1054 AD.
What is the Great Schism?
400
Infatuated with antiquity (classical civilizations), the Byzantine Empire preserved this type of culture and traditions in their libraries, schools and monasteries.
What is Greco-Roman?
400
Product traded in the Baltic region
amber
400

This is the year that the Byzantine Empire fell.

1453 AD
500

This is the name that was given to Constantinople after the Ottoman conquest (HINT: where the movie Taken 2 was filmed)

What is Istanbul?
500
Following the Schism, this title became the head of the Eastern Orthodox Church.
What is the Patriarch?
500
Justinian helped to expand this by opening an open air market which goods could be bought and sold. (The economic activity that dominated Constantinople)
What is trade?
500
This religion helped influence Russian unification (be specific).
What is Orthodox Christianity?
500

After Constantinople becomes Istanbul, the Hagia Sophia converts from a church to this.

mosque
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