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This man won the Battle of Milvian Bridge and saw the cross appear in the sky saying "by this sign you shall conquer".
Who is Constantine?
Byzantium was renamed this.
What is Constantinople?
This is the primary art form of the east: a sign of cultural fusion with the East rather than continuing traditions of realism in the West.
What are mosaics?
This year Constantinople was dedicated as New Rome.
What is 330 AD?
This is the name of painted images of Christ and the saints; those against these images thought they were idolatrous.
What are icons?
This man officially OFFICIALLY made Christianity the *state* religion of the Byzantine Empire.
Note: Different from the guy who said Christianity was legal/encouraged.
Who is Theodosius?
This strait separates southeastern Europe from Asia Minor and was the site of Constantinople.
What is the Bosporus?
This was a new secret weapon used against wooden ships that enabled the Byzantines to control the Mediterranean Sea for many centuries.
What is greek fire?
This was the year of the fall of Western Rome.
What is 476?
This was the church of the West that began to rely on tradition in addition to Scripture, taught that being born again came through baptism, and created a set of sacred works needed to achieve salvation.
Who was known as the Bulgar slayer?
Basil II
Basil the Bulgar Slayer
This was the location of the Nika revolt, similar to the Western Colosseum.
What is the Hippodrome?
In 532 AD, this riot broke out in Constantinople and threatened to topple Justinian from power.
What is the Nika revolt?
In what year did Byzantine territory in Asia Minor get taken by the Seljuk Turks?
1071
This is the name of the leaders of the Eastern Orthodox church.
What are the patriarchs?
What were Justinians' 2 main objectives for regaining Roman/Byzantine greatness?
-Regained lost territory from barbarians
-Preserved Roman Law (and simplified it through Justinian's code)
Because of the split of Western & Eastern Rome, how did Byzantine Identity shift?
It became more Greek in the East! (Because they done moved to Greece)
Byzantine culture was connected to Rome in the West mostly through these 2 aspects of society.
What is law and government?
(Other answers include: Religion before the Schism, Access to the Mediterranean, strong trade, etc.)
In 1204, an enemy invaded and breached the defenses of Constantinople (but was unable to hold it for long). Who was this enemy?
Warriors on a crusade hired by Venetian merchants to destroy their trade rival
In the 600s, the Muslims threatened Constantinople, because they did not fall at that time to the Muslims, what did Constantinople become known as?
The “city protected by God”
Who was Justinian's wife? Explain her background- her contributions- and her legacy
She was an actress/prostitute
She built homes and hospitals for the poor and for women
& She made sure Justinian didn't flee during the Nika Revolts
Female power & aid in lawmaking!
What peninsula did the Bulgars live in?
The Balkans (area around Greece)
This was the Battle where the Seljuk Turks annihilated the Byzantine army
What is the Battle of Manzikert?
This is the date that the empire fell to the Ottoman Turks.
What is 1453?
IN 1054 (the Great __________) the pope did what to the patriarch?
Schism; Excommunicated him