The Glory That Was Rome
The most important city in the Roman Empire
What is Rome?
From an Old English epic poem, the great warrior hero who fights Grendel
Who is Beowulf?
Places where men could live and worship God
What are monasteries?
The capital city of the Eastern Roman Empire
What is Constantinople?
The highest mountains in the world, located in northern India
What are the Himalayas?
The center of the Roman Empire was located near this sea.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
The Celts finally drove the last Roman soldiers out of their country when this empire fell (the Eastern or Western Roman Empire)
What is the Western Roman Empire?
This man was sent to Britain to tell the people there about Christianity
Who is Augustine?
A picture made by arranging colored pieces in a pattern
What is a mosaic?
The most important river in India
Early inhabitants of Britain who rebelled against the Romans
Who are the Celts?
The names of the two tribes who came to help one Celtic king fight his enemies
Who are the Angles and the Saxons?
The town in which the first Christians who came to Britain settled
What is Canterbury?
Who is Theodora?
The name of the ancient Indian language
What is Sanskrit?
Of the Huns, Aryans, Visigoths, and Vandals, the tribe that did not invade Rome
Who are the Aryans?
One of the Celts' stories told of this warrior, who with his three companions defeated a giant named Giant Fovor of the Mighty Blows
Who is Craith?
The kind of paper that monks used
What is parchment (made from animal skins)?
Christians in the Eastern Roman Empire who did not believe that the pope should make decisions for the whole church
What are Eastern Orthodox Christians?
Barbarians who invaded India
Who are the Huns?
This emperor divided the Roman Empire into two parts so that it would be easier to rule and protect
Who is Diocletian?
A Celtic king who asked two barbarian tribes to come help him fight his enemies
Who is Vortigern?
A special room where monks copied books
What is a scriptorium?
The largest church in the capital of the Byzantine Empire
What is the Hagia Sophia?
The first king who began to unite smaller kingdoms in India
Who is Chandragupta?