Important People
Language spoken in the Byzantine Empire
Greek
Today we call the Western church of Rome by this name.
What is the Roman Catholic Church?
What has to be broken before you can use it?
An Egg
Constantinople was located in the country called this today.
What is Turkey?
Division of the church in 1054?
The great schism
What gets wetter the more it dries?
A towel
Important and wise leader of the Byzantine Empire.
Justinian
For this reason, many nations wanted to take over Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire.
What is that it was located at the center of major trade routes?
At it's peak, between 5 and 10 thousand people died per day in Constantinople
The Plague of Justinian
Another name for the Byzantine or Eastern Church.
What is the Orthodox Church or Greek Orthodox Church?
What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
The Letter "M"
Justinian's wife is . . .
Who is Theodora?
Location of Chariot Races and the Circus
What is the Hippodrome?
How did the Byzantine Empire help preserve the legacy of the Western Roman and Greek Empires
They copied and translated books and manuscripts.
I’m lighter than a feather, yet the strongest person can’t even hold me for half an hour. What am I?
Your breath
Theodora was an __________ before she met Justinian.
What is an actress with low beginnings?
Famous church created by Justinian I ...
What is the Hagia Sophia?
Why was Constantinople important to Europe? (other than trade)
It served as a buffer or shield against invasion from Asia
I have cities, but no houses; forests, but no trees; and water, but no fish. What am I?
A Map
This Roman emperor permanently split the Roman Empire into eastern and western halves shortly before his death in 395.
Theodocius
What was the name of the strait where Constantinople sat between Europe and Asia
Bosporus
This defensive system of land grants required soldiers to farm land in exchange for military service.
Theme System
Which religion would eventually lead to the downfall of the Byzantine Empire
Islam
Riddle: I speak without a mouth and hear without ears.
I have no body, but I come alive with wind.
What am I?
an Echo