The Fall of Rome
In 330 C.E., this Roman Emperor moved the capital of Rome to Byzantium?
Who is Constantine the Great?
The reason Constantinople's location was considered strategic by Constantine? (Give one clear reason.)
What is easy to defend? or What is, it sat on the Silk Road trade route?
This social and political system was developed in Western Europe, where people exchanged labor for protection.
What is Feudalism?
The Roman province where Christianity originated?
What is Judea?
The reason why the Western portion of the Roman Empire was more vulnerable to collapse than the Eastern portion? (Give two clear reasons.)
No centralized leadership.
No unified military of significance.
The new name given to the city of Byzantium after the move?
What is Constantinople?
The approximate number of years the move to Constantinople extended the Eastern Roman Empire.
What is 1,000 years?
In the feudal hierarchy, this person was at the very top and officially owned the land?
Who is the King or Lord?
The primary figure in Christian belief identified as the Messiah?
Who is Jesus?
Invention that helped spread Christianity in the eastern regions.
What is the Cyrillic alphabet?
The term used to describe the splitting of the Roman Empire into Eastern and Western halves.
What is divergence?
The name of the city before being renamed Constantinople.
What is Byzantium?
Who were vassals, and what did they pledge to their lords in exchange for land?
What is pledged military service and loyalty to the king?
The reason the Roman government at first saw Christians as civicly disloyal or a threat? (Give one reason.)
What is Christians refused to worship the emperor.
The greatest football program in all of college football.
Who is the University of Georgia?
The year traditionally recognized as the fall of the Western Roman Empire.
476 AD
The famous Byzantine legal achievement simplified and organized Roman laws into a clear system.
What is Justinian's Code?
What was a manor, and why was it considered a "self-contained" unit? (Give two features.)
What is, it produced food, had workshops, and included housing, farmland, and sometimes a church?
The three main reasons Christianity quickly spread across the empire?
What are Roman roads, Common language, and Spiritual equality?
Name of the most beautiful employee in this school.
Who is Mrs. Murray
The name Romans use for tribes such as the Franks and Goths who lived outside the empire's borders?
What is Barbarians?
The name of one Eastern Roman Empire emperor.
Who is Constantine or Justinian?
This group was "tied to the land" and performed most farming on manors?
Who are peasants or serfs?
What the Edict of Milan (313 C.E.) did for Christians in the empire.
What is allowed for tolerance of Christians.
The emperor who made Christianity the official state religion of Rome in 380 C.E.?
Theodosius I