Newton
The tendency for an object at rest to remain at rest.
What is inertia?
The rate at which a person or object moves.
What is speed?
A point at which, everywhere on Earth, days and nights are almost exactly equal in length.
What is an equinox?
This emperor initially divided Rome into two empires.
Who is Diocletian?
A soldier for hire.
What is a mercenary?
For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction is this law of motion.
What is Newton's 3rd Law of Motion?
The movement of an animal or object.
What is motion?
Water that falls to the Earth as rain, sleet, snow or hail.
What is precipitation?
This city became the capital of the Byzantine Empire.
What is Byzantium/Constantinople?
Someone who spoke a language the Greeks could not understand.
What is a barbarian?
This law states that an object at rest tends to remain at rest.
What is Newton's First Law of Motion?
What is friction?
The condition of the air and sky at certain time.
What is weather?
This famous Emperor of the Byzantine Empire created a Book of Codes.
Who is Justinian?
A long poem about a hero's adventures.
What is an epic?
This law states that force equals mass times acceleration.
What is Newton's 2nd Law of Motion?
Anything that has mass and takes up space.
What is matter?
The average weather of a place over many years.
What is climate?
This woman famously persuaded her husband to stay in Constantinople and defend his empire from would-be revolutionaries.
Who is Theodora?
The art of public speaking.
What is oratory?
Forces that are equal are said to be these type of forces.
What are balanced forces?
A push or pull to get something to move.
What is a force?
Measure of how hot or cold the air is.
What is temperature?
This split in the church has still not been reconciled.
What is the Great Schism?
These bring water to cities.
What are aqueducts?