Rome & Christianity
Decline & Fall of the Empire
Byzantine Empire
Legacy of Rome
Anything about Rome
100
The Roman emperor who converted to Christianity.
Who is Constantine?
100
A foreign soldier who works for pay.
What is a mercenary?
100
A powerful ruler of the Byzantine empire who is known for organizing Roman laws into one code.
Who is Justinian?
100
Sculptures that are slightly raised against a flat background.
What is bas-relief?
100
The year the Roman Empire collapsed.
What is 476 C.E.?
200
The Christian church based in Rome.
What is the Roman Catholic Church?
200
Between 235 and 284 C.E. 34 Roman emperors died in this way.
What is assassination?
200
The beautiful Christian Church (that eventually became a mosque) in the Byzantine Empire whose name means "Holy Wisdom" or "Saint Sophia?"
What is the Hagia Sophia?
200
Structures built by the Romans to carry water to cities.
What are aqueducts?
200
The Byzantine empress known for helping women.
Who is Empress Theodora?
300
The mistreatment of Christians by Roman rulers because the rulers feared the Christians would rebel against them.
What is persecution?
300
A powerful emperor who divided the empire into two parts, east and west, to make it easier to rule.
Who is Diocletian?
300
The name of the Christian Church in the Eastern or Byzantine Empire?
What is the Eastern Orthodox Church?
300
Languages spoken today that are based on the Roman language, Latin.
What are Romance languages?
300
The most powerful leader in the west after the fall of Rome.
Who is the pope?
400
The bishop of Rome
Who is the pope?
400
The new capital city of the Roman Empire, renamed by Constantine.
What is Constantinople?
400
The leader of the Christian Church in the Eastern Empire?
Who is the Patriarch?
400
The religion we inherited from the Romans that is practiced by nearly one-third of the people in the world today.
What is Christianity?
400
The approximate number of years the Byzantine Empire lasted after the fall of the western Roman Empire.
What is 1,000 years?
500
The people at the bottom to the Roman Catholic Church hierarchy.
Who are the laity?
500
Leader of the Franks who conquered Roman land in what is now France.
Who is Clovis?
500
The leader of the Ottoman Turks who conquered the Byzantine empire.
Who is Mehmet II?
500
The representative body in Washington, D.C. that resembles the assemblies formed by the Romans.
What is the U.S. Congress, the U.S. Senate and or the House of Representatives?
500
Attacks from Slavs, Persians, Arabs, Turks, Christian crusaders caused the fall of this empire.
What caused the fall of the Byzantine Empire in 1453?
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