Government
Religion
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Famous People
Challange
100
Favorite 8th grade class
What is Social Studies?
100
Eastern Orthodox
What is the the religion of the Byzantine Empire?
100
Greek
What is the culture of the Byzantine Empire?
100
Empress Theodora
Who is the co empress of Justinian?
100
Trade
What is the primary economy?
200
Ruled with absolute power and often ruthless power. Viewed as unpopular. Wanted to be worshipped as a God
Who is Justinian of coarse?
200
Government + Religion
Why was government and religion linked?
200
Icons, painting and statues
What is religious art that helped spread the religion?
200
A historian that wrote the dark side about Justinian and Theodora
Who is Procopius?
200
978 years
How much longer did the Byzantine Empire exist after the fall of the Western Empire?
300
The Justinian Code
What is the foundation of all Byzantine laws?
300
Leaders of the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches
What is a Pope and patriarch?
300
Eastern Roman Empire
What is another name for the Byzantine Empire?
300
In 730 banned Icons from all Byzantine Churches.
Who is Pope Leo III
300
It was located on a peninsula and near trade routes.
Why was Constantinople such a city of success?
400
Emperor Theodosis
Who the ordered the wall to be built around Constantinople?
400
Icons, Leadership,culture
What were the primary reasons for the Schism of the Roman Catholic Church in 1054
400
Wall of Theodoses Pennisula
What are the natural and man- made defenses of Constantinople?
400
Blues and the Greens
What are Chariot teams who ignited the Nika Revolt?
400
A city unified by religion
What is Constantinople?
500
Hagia Sophia Nika Revolt New religion Heavy taxation Trading Hub absolute power Expansion of former Roman lands
What were the 3 positive and 3 negative legacies of the Byzantine Empire?
500
Interpret: " in agreement with the right belief"
What the term orthodox mean?
500
Roman Catholics and Eastern Orthodox have this both in common
What are christians?
500
Patriarch Cerularius was excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church
What was the final break between the Byzantine and Roman Catholic Churches
500
Conquers of the Byzantine Empire 1453
Who are the Sejuk Turks ( Ottomans)
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