Vocabulary
This is a change to make something better.
What is reform?
The two-century period of peace led to growth during the Roman empire is called this.
What is Pax Romana?
Constantinople was located on this landform, which helped make it a busy trading center.
What is a peninsula?
What are iconoclasts?
In the 400s C.E., a priest named Patrick brought Christianity to this island.
What is Ireland?
To declare that someone is no longer a member of the church.
What is to excommunicate?
These two emperors tried to reform the Roman Empire.
Who were Diocletian and Constantine?
Who are the Greeks?
Christianity split into these two branches.
What are the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church?
This shows that a figure in a painting is portraying a holy figure.
What is a halo?
These are the three main reasons given for the decline of Rome.
What is a weakened government, a failing economy, and Germanic invasions?
This code helped officials and businesspeople better understand the empire's laws and has been the basis for the legal systems of almost every country in the Western world.
What is Justinian's Code or the Code of Justinian?
The pope crowned this Frankish king emperor in 800 C.E. because he successfully helped defend Italy against invaders.
Who is Charlemagne?
The _______ was the leader of the Roman Catholic church, and the ________ was the leader of the Eastern Orthodox Church
Who are the Pope and the Byzantine Emperor?
This is visual representation of an object of worship.
What is an icon?
Emperor Constantine moved the capital of the empire to the city of __________ and changed its name to ____________.
What is Byzantium and Constantinople?
Under Justinian's orders, nearly 10,000 workers built this domed church that became the religious center of the Byzantine Empire.
What is the Hagia Sophia?
These are two different sets of rules made for monks and nuns that regulated how religious people were supposed to live and pray.
What are the Basilian Rule and the Benedictine Rule?
This word comes from the actions of a Germanic tribe and means a person who willfully destroys property.
What is vandal or vandalism?
Depending on whether you were a man or a woman, these were religious communities where you could live a life of prayer and service.
What is a monastery and a convent?
This Emperor divided the Empire into two empires: the Western Roman Empire and the Eastern Roman Empire.
Who is Emperor Theodosius?
This deadly disease weakened the army and impacted the Byzantine Empire's ability to fight wars.
What is Justinian's Plague?
These two brothers were dedicated Byzantine missionaries who invented an alphabet for the Slavic language to help spread Christianity among the Slavs.
Who are Cyril and Methodius?
These three Roman contributions still influence modern lives today.
What are our language, our government, architecture, literature, philosophy, and/or Christianity?