Byzantine Leaders
First Emperor of the Byzantine Empire
Who is Constantine I
What is a Schism
A split or division.
The name for Constantinople today.
What is Istanbul?
Byzantine laws that were so good they were even used in modern governments.
What is the Code of Justinian?
The great church created by Justinian.
What is the Hagia Sophia?
Important leader of the Byzantine Empire, who rebuilt the city.
Who is Justinian?
What helped spread Christianity?
word of mouth, Edict of Milan(making it legal), translating the Bible into Latin, monks and nuns
Constantinople was located in the country called this today.
What is Turkey.
What are the Nika riots?
The name of the riots that Justinian encountered after a chariot race.
What are pictures made of small pieces of glass or pottery?
Mosaics
Justinian's wife.
Who is Theodora?
City at the center of the eastern church.
What is Constantinople?
A center for social life, chariot races and more.
What is the Hippodrome.
How did Justinian improve the lives of the people of Constantinople?
By doing many large building projects, giving women more rights, and improving laws
The Hagia Sophia is now this.
What is a Museum?
The capital city named for Constantine.
What is Constantinople?
Today we call the Eastern Church centered in Constantinople by this name.
What is Eastern Orthodox Church or Greek Orthodox Church?
Why was the city easy to defend?
It was on a hill, and surrounded on 3 sides by water. The other side had multiple huge walls.
In what ways did the east continue the culture of the Roman Empire?
By preserving and spreading Christianity, creating art, domes and arches, education, Latin language.
How did Justinian try to reunite the Roman Empire?
By gaining more land
The first Christian Emperor, who helped spread Christianity by making it legal.
Constantine
Today we call the Western Christian church of Rome by this name.
What is the Roman Catholic Church?
Why was the city good for trade?
It was located between waterways, and on the Silk Road, so you could trade by land or sea.
This is the language was preserved by the expansion of the Roman and Byzantine Empires.
What is Latin?
Which city did the Muslims (and others) try for almost a thousand years to conquer?
Constantinople