Beginnings
This religion was spread throughout the region by the Roman and the Byzantine Empires.
What is Christianity?
He wanted to restore the glory of the Roman Empire and lead the Byzantine Empire into a period of expansion.
Who is Justinian I?
The culture of the western part of the Roman Empire was influenced by the Frankish and Germanic cultures while the Byzantine culture was largely shaped by the influence of this Mediterranean culture.
What is Greek?
Emperors forcing people to possess the same religion and missionaries traveling on the road network to exchange Christian ideas helped Christianity do this.
What is spread or diffuse?
This is why Justinian I changed the laws in the Byzantine Empire.
What was they were confusing and disroganized?
Because religion and government were even more closely linked in the Byzantine Empire than in Medieval Europe, the emperor was considered the head of the government and this.
What is the living representative of God and Jesus Christ?
After the fall of Rome, these religious leaders claimed supreme religious authority over all Christians though the emperors and patriarchs of Byzantium did not make the same claim.
Who is the pope?
True or False: The Holy Crusades brought Christianity to Southeast Asia.
What is true?
Constantinople's closeness to water ways and its position on two different continents made it a perfect hub for this.
What is trade?
Justinian’s Code has been the basis for this in many countries.
What is a legal system?
The Passcode is: R
________ was the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire, and _________ was the capital of the Western Roman Empire.
What are Constantinople and Rome (in that order)?
The fall of Rome began with poor leadership, attacks by invaders, and a decline in this.
What is economy?
This happened when the Roman Empire was too large to be governed.
What is it split into two different empires ?
Because of the trade, Constantinople was the richest and most elegant city in this empire.
What is the Byzantine Empire?
As part of a grand rebuilding of Constantinople, Justinian I created bridges, public bathes, parks, roads, hospitals and churches, among them this magnificent church built for Theodora, his wife.
What is Hagia Sophia?
By increasing the Byzantine Empire and the use of missionaries, this religion was able to spread in Eastern Europe..
What is Christianity?
Rome finally fell when these groups of people invaded from northern Europe
Who are the Germanic groups?
Trade in Constantinople was helped by this trade route to the East.
What is the Silk Road?
Justinian I and his committee studied the laws of the Roman Empire revising and improving them thoroughly into a document that has come be known as this.
What is Justinian's Code?
The Greek Orthodox church differed from the Holy Roman Catholic Church because the use of this in their worship.
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The Double Jeopardy (500 points)
This church used them in their worship.
What are icons?
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What is the Holy Roman Catholic Church?
This split was created when the Greek Orthodox Church in the East did not agree with some of the practices the Roman Catholic Church in the West was doing.
What is Great Schism?