Early Byzantium
Economy and Society
Orthodox Christianity
Byzantine Influence
Grab Bag
100
What people conquered Constantinople?
The Ottoman Turks.
100
How did merchants limit their risks?
By forming partnerships.
100
What language was used in Rome?
Latin.
100
What was the religion of the peoples on the Mediterranean's southern and eastern rim?
Islam.
100
What Slavic people organized large states North of Bulgaria?
The Russians.
200
What is the peninsula that Byzantium is on known as?
The Golden Horn.
200
What did subjects of Constantinople refer to it as?
"the City".
200
What does iconoclasm mean?
The breaking of icons.
200
What region of the Byzantine empire did the Saljuqs seize?
Anatolia.
200
What effect did the fourth crusade have on Constantinople?
The crusaders conquered and sacked Constantinople.
300
What was Justinian known as?
The sleepless emperor.
300
What crop supported large populations in the Byzantine empire?
Wheat.
300
How did authorities in Byzantium regard Roman Christians
Poorly educated and uncouth.
300
What languages is the Cyrillic alphabet used for?
Slavic languages.
300
What practice of the elite classes placed the peasantry under increasing pressure?
Their accumulation of large estates.
400
What city was the headquarters of Byzantine authority in the western Mediterranean?
Ravenna.
400
After what battle did Basil II command his forces to blind the Bulgarian survivors?
The battle of Kleidion.
400
What subjects were offered in state-organized primary schools?
Reading, writing, and grammar.
400
What city was popularly known as the third Rome?
Moscow.
400
What are the three manifestations of God in Christianity?
God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit.
500
What weapon did Byzantine forces use against Islamic forces?
Greek fire.
500
What was the Greens and Blues uprising about?
High taxes imposed by Justinian.
500
What religious text did Byzantine scholars draw their inspiration from?
The New Testament.
500
What distinctive feature of early Russian churches was a result of efforts to imitate the domed structures of Constantinople?
Onion domes.
500
What emperor attended sessions of the Council of Nicaea?
Constantine.
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