Historical Characters
This ruler compiled the Corpus Juris Civilis and built the Hagia Sophia, with grand ambitions to restore the Roman Empire.
Who is Emperor Justinian?
Belisarius' invasion of Italy on behalf of Emperor Justinian.
What is the Gothic War?
This civilization loved chariot-racing, and and had its capital in Constantinople?
What is the Byzantine Empire?
This religion values love and sacrifice.
What is Christianity?
What is the Hagia Sophia?
This ruler had a mystical vision that he credited with his victory at the Milvian Bridge.
Who is Emperor Constantine?
Chariot-racing riots that erupted into a rebellion.
The Nika Riots.
This barbarian tribe seized Italy from Odoacer, and were suspicious of "letters".
Who are the Ostrogoths?
This religion included many gods such as Jupiter and Hercules.
What is Roman paganism?
What is the Tetrarchy?
Who is Belisarius?
Odoacer's invasion of Ravenna on September 4th, 476.
What is the Fall of Rome?
This civilization was on the losing side of the Battle of Adrianople, where they lost 2/3rds of their army.
What is the Western Roman Empire?
What is Germanic paganism?
Justinian's compilation of a thousand+ years of Roman laws.
This ruler was a tetrarch, Caesar of the East, who encouraged the Great Persecution.
Who is Emperor Galerius?
Alaric's three-day raid of Rome itself.
What is the Sack of Rome?
This civilization controlled North Africa until the conquests of Belisarius for the Byzantine Empire.
Who are the Vandals?
This is the term for an inaccurate version of religious beliefs.
What is a heresy?
A chariot-racing arena.
What is a hippodrome?
The Christian wife of Emperor Constantius.
Who is Helena?
The Battle in which Constantine took Rome.
This civilization destroyed the Persian Empire and became a never-ending threat to the Byzantine Empire.
Who are the Arabs?
This religion is a Christian heresy that claims that Jesus is not God.
The Arian Heresy (Arian Christianity)
A region that includes Greece and the countries between the Adriatic, Aegean, and Black Seas, that was for a time the territory of the Byzantine Empire?
What are the Balkans?