Rome's Decline
What is the Pax Romana?
The eastern half of the Roman Empire became know as this.
What is the Byzantine Empire?
Romans governed these people by giving them religious freedom, and allowed them to have their own King.
Who are the Jews?
People who put their faith and trust in Jesus, believe that He is the Son of God, and that He paid the price for their sins, and believe in the the Trinity, are known as this.
What are Christians?
Christianity split into two main branches, the Roman Catholic Church and this other branch.
What is the Eastern Orthodox Church?
Extensive road network, access to goods, and the acceptance of different ideas and innovations, were reasons why Rome was this.
What is a site of encounter?
Constantinople was located on this kind of land, which is land that is surrounded by water on 3 sides.
What is a peninsula?
This group of Jews rebelled against the Romans in 66 C.E.
Who are the Zealots?
This group of men (and women) taught the Jews about Jesus, and then spread the truth of Jesus to other nations.
Who are the apostles?
The Christian church split mainly because of the disagreement about who was the head of all churches, a military dispute and the dispute of these religious pictures that represented Christian beliefs.
What are icons?
This Roman Emperor divided the empire into the Western Roman Empire and the Eastern Roman Empire.
Who is Theodosius?
Constantinople slowly became less Roman, and more of this.
What is Greek?
Jesus told stories with a message, that were known as these.
What are parables?
These two men are considered to be the most influential people in the early Christian church.
Who are Peter and Paul?
Who is Charlamagne?
These two Germanic tribes invaded Rome between the years 300-499.
Who are the Visigoths and the Vandals?
The most famous of Byzantine emperors, he change rights for women, built forts and churches, and conquered parts of Italy, Spain and Northern Africa.
Who is Justinian?
What is the Passover meal?
Almost four centuries after the death and resurrection of Jesus, this Roman Emperor made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire.
Who is Constantine?
These brothers created an alphabet for the Slavic languages and spread Christianity throughout Eastern Europe.
Who are Cyril and Methodius?
This general, reinforced Diocletian reform, moved the Roman capital to Byzantium, and changed the name to Constantinople.
Who was Constantine?
This was the name of Justinian's wife.
Who is Theodora?
These are the two main teachings of Jesus.
What is to love the Lord your God, and love your neighbor as yourself?
The system of hierarchy in the Roman Catholic church included priests, bishops, archbishops and this guy, at the top.
Who is the Pope?
Monks and Nuns lived in these two religious communities.
What are monasteries (men) and convents (women).