Justinian
He was the greatest Byzantine Empire emperor.
Who was Justinian?
This city's name was originally Byzantium before the emperor Constantine changed it.
What is Constantinople?
This is the type of religion practiced by the Byzantines.
What is Eastern Orthodox Christianity?
The Byzantines spoke Latin but mostly spoke this language.
What is Greek?
Trade goods from China traveled to the Byzantine Empire over trade routes that were called this.
What is the Silk Road?
She was Justinian's wife and a strong advocate for laws to give rights to women.
Who was Theodora?
The city of Constantinople was located on this geographic feature.
What is a peninsula?
This is the name of the Christian religion in Western Europe and with its headquarters in Rome.
What is Roman Catholic Christianity?
Greek and Roman knowledge was preserved in the Byzantine Empire and started to be known in W. Europe after what city fell?
What is Constantinople?
The Great Schism was a split between these two types of Christianity.
What are Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Christianity?
Justinian was known for this action which was part of his attempt to restore the glory and size of the Roman Empire.
What is conquered many lands.
What are walls?
This Eastern Orthodox Church was turned into a mosque when Constantinople was conquered by the Ottoman Turks.
What is the Hagia Sophia?
This popular Byzantine art form used bits of stone or glass to form a picture.
What is a mosaic?
This is what the people of the Byzantine Empire actually called the Byzantine Empire.
What is the Eastern Roman Empire.
This clarified the Byzantine law and made sure it was uniform everywhere.
What is The Code of Justinian?
Constantinople's location was a major factor for making it wealthy because it was at the center of these.
What are trade routes?
This is the name for the separation of European Christianity into two separate groups.
What is the Great Schism?
When Constantinople was conquered, scholars fled to Western Europe with texts from these two cultures.
What are the Ancient Greek and Roman cultures?
This body of water was on the border of the city of Constantinople to the north.
What is the Black Sea?
This was Justinian's greatest contribution to the architecture of the Byzantine Empire.
What is the Hagia Sophia?
Catapults and hammers could not defeat them, but Constantinople's protection was eventually defeated by this invention.
What are heavy cannons?
He was the head of the Eastern Orthodox Church
Who was the emperor?
This is the translation of "Hagia Sophia".
What is "Holy Wisdom"?
This was the leader of the Ottoman Turks who conquered Constantinople.
Who was Mehmed II (Mehmed the Conquerer)