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Today we call the Eastern Church centered in Constantinople by this name.
What is Eastern Orthodox Church or Greek Orthodox Church?
Today we call the Western Christian church of Rome by this name.
What is the Roman Catholic Church?
The split between the Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic Churches was caused by.
What is: Use of icon, leadership, priest's celibacy?
a piece of land almost surrounded by water or projecting out into a body of water.
What is a peninsula?
Pictures of holy people and saints.
What are icons?
the largest church in Constantinople built by Justinian I
What is Hagia Sophia?
Byzantine laws that were so good they were even used in modern governments.
What is the Code of Justinian?
Byzantine's greatest, most famous emperor.
Who is Justinian?
the Byzantine Empire the people of Constantinople spoke
What is Greek?
Location of the center of the western church.
What is Rome or the Vatican?
Justinian's general who was responsible for reconquering land and dealing with Nika Riots.
Who is Belisarius?
Someone who destroyed icons and wanted them banned.
What is an iconoclast?
The name of the city that Constantine moved the capital to.
What is Byzantium?
City at the center of the eastern church.
What is Constantinople?
the action of officially excluding someone from participation in the sacraments and services of the Christian Church.
What is excommunication?
Groups that defeated the Byzantine Empire and took control of Constantinople renamed it Istanbul.
Who were the Ottoman Turks?
Constantinople was located there today.
What is Istanbul, Turkey?
Constantinople was located on both of these continents.
What are Europe and Asia?
Justinian's wife.
Who is Theodora?
Byzantine empire preserved the culture of both of these groups.
What is Greek and Roman?
Reasons Constantine chose this new location for his capital city
What is because Excellent geography, easily protected, good harbor, trade crossroads