Constantinople
Potpourri
Religion
People, Tools & Trade
Legacy & Russia
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
Justinian's wife
Who is Theodora?
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
Important and wise leader of the Byzantine Empire.
Who is Constantine or Justinian?
200
Pictures of holy people and saints.
What are icons?
200
The head of the western church.
Who is the Pope?
200
Byzantine laws that were so good they are the basis of law used in modern governments.
What is the Code of Justinian?
300
The name of Constantinople today.
What is Istanbul?
300
This group took over the Byzantine Empire in the 1400s.
Who are the Ottoman Turks?
300
Head of the eastern church.
Who is the patriarch?
300
Justinian's greatest general, who took his wife with him on campaigns.
Who is Belisarius?
300
These two seas are at either end of the trade route between Scandanavia and the Byzantine Empire.
What are the Baltic and Black Seas?
400
Constantinople is located on this strait.
What is Bosporus Strait?
400
A narrow water passage connecting to larger bodies of water.
What is a strait?
400
City at the center of the eastern church.
What is Constantinople?
400
Because the Byzantine Empire had this weapon, it was able to survive.
What is Greek Fire?
400
Byzantine missionaries and trade
What were the ways the Byzantine Empire influenced Russia and Eastern Europe?
500
Constantinople was located in the country called this today.
What is Turkey?
500
The Byzantine empire fell due to disputes over these two things.
What are politics and religion?
500
Today we call the Western Christian church of Rome by this name.
What is the Roman Catholic Church?
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
Access to trade routes
What is the most important geographic feature of the Byzantine Empire?
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