Its pretty Constant
If you know you know
Faces to remember
Holy Hand grenade of info
Bye-zantium
100
First Emperor of the Byzantine Empire
Who is Constantine I
100
Schism
What is a split or division.
100
Today we call the Eastern Church centered in Constantinople by this name.
What is Eastern Orthodox Church or Greek Orthodox Church?
100
Today we call the Western Christian church of Rome by this name.
What is the Roman Catholic Church?
100
The Byzantine Empire saved books and knowledge from these two nations.
What is Greece and Rome.
200
Constantinople was located in the country called this today.
What is Turkey.
200
The Byzantine empire fell due to disputes over these two things.
What are politics and religion?
200
Justinian's wife.
Who is Theodora?
200
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?
200
The reason the eastern and western christian churches split.
What is because the western (Roman Catholic) church believed that you should pray directly to God and not to icons (pictures of saints and holy people) as the eastern church?
300
Constantinople is located on this strait.
What is Bosporus Strait?
300
The name for Constantinople today.
What is Istanbul?
300
City at the center of the eastern church.
What is Constantinople?
300

Constantine made Constantinople easier to defend by

Building massive walls

300

This event expedited the fall of Byzantium

the 4th crusade

400
Important and wise leader of the Byzantine Empire.
Who is Justinian or Constantine?
400
This group took over the Byzantine Empire in the 1400s.
Who are the Ottoman Turks?
400
Head of the eastern church.
Who is the patriarch?
400
Location of the center of the western church.
What is Rome or the Vatican?
400

Justinian was a unique leader for these reasons:

What is he was just, wise, easy going, listened to the ideas of his wife?

500
The capital city named for Constantine.
What is Constantinople?
500
A narrow water passage connecting to larger bodies of water.
What is a strait?
500
Pictures of holy people and saints.
What are icons?
500
The head of the western church.
Who is the Pope?
500

Byzantine laws that were so good they were even used in modern governments.


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What is the Code of Justinian?

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