Byzantine Empire
Byzantine Empire 2
Byzantine Empire 3
Byzantine Empire 4
Byzantine Empire 5
100
First Emperor of the Byzantine Empire
Who is Constantine I
100

What did the great Schism have to do with?

What is a split or division between the Byzantines and the Catholic church?

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

The capital city named for Constantine.

What is Constantinople?

200
A narrow water passage connecting to larger bodies of water.
What is a strait?
200

The greatest architectural achievement of the Byzantines?

What is the Hagia Sophia?

200
The head of the western church.
Who is the Pope?
200
Greatest social achievement of emperor Justinian?

What is the Justinian Code?

300

The Greatest leader of the Byzantine empire?

Who is Justinian?

300
This group took over the Byzantine Empire in the 1400s.
Who are the Ottoman Turks?
300

With 1.345 billion parishioners, what is the largest branch of Christianity in the world today?

Catholocism

300
Location of the center of the western church.
What is Rome or the Vatican?
300

Constantinople was an appealing spot for a capital city because it lay in these two continents.

What are Asia and Europe?

400

Because of the trade, Constantinople was the richest and most elegant city in this region.

What is the Mediterranean?

400
The name for Constantinople today.
What is Istanbul?
400

Greatest political achievement of Emperor Justinian

What is regaining lost territory of the Western Roman Empire?

400

What technology will bring down the protective wall of Constantinople

What is the cannon?

400

How many sides of Constantinople were surrounded by water

What is 3?

500
Constantinople was located in the country called this today.
What is Turkey.
500

What language was predominantly spoken in the Byzantine empire?

Greek?

500
Justinian's wife.
Who is Theodora?
500
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?
500

The name of the split between the eastern and western christian churches

The Great Schism

M
e
n
u