Vocabulary
What document resulted from Justinian's efforts to organize the law?
Justinian's Code
Who were Cyril and Methodius?
Cyril and Methodius were Byzantine missionaries who brought Orthodox Christianity to the Slavs and invented the Cyrillic alphabet.
What is one famous example of Byzantine architecture?
Justinian's church (Hagia Sophia)
Why did Byzantine lawyers try to organize a new system of laws?
Justinian wanted to increase order in the legal system
Why is the Cyrillic alphabet important?
It gave the Slavs a written language
What items did Byzantine librarians and monks save?
They copied and preserved the manuscripts, or handwritten documents of ancient Greece and Rome. The works saved included Homer's epics and writings by Greek and Roman philosophers.
What role did Justinian's laws give emperors?
Emperor's held positions of great power. The code said, "that which seems good to the emperor has the force of law."
Eastern Orthodox Missionaries began travelling to southeastern Europe, the home of the...
Slavs
In what year did the Byzantine empire fall?
1453
Russia was strongly influenced by the Byzantine empire. What title did Russian emperors take that resembled the word Caesar?
Tsar
After the Ottomans took control of Constantinople they turned the Hagia Sophia, a Christian church, into what?
A mosque (Islamic house of worship)