Vocabulary
The Churches
Justinian and Theodora
Empires
More Church/Other
100

representation of an object or person for worship

icon

100

Which of the two churches DID NOT believe in the use of icons and were called “iconoclasts”?

Eastern Orthodox Church

100

Theodora helped change the laws and won more of what for women?

Rights

100

To protect the city of Constantinople, Constantine did what?

Had walls built around the city for protection

100

Who overran Constantinople and ended the Byzantine Empire in 1453?

Ottoman Turks

200

To bring something back to its original form.

Restore

200

Which of the two churches believed in the use of icons?

Western Roman Catholic

200

Justinian created a new set of laws for the Byzantine empire that influenced the modern western world. What was the name of this set of laws?

Justinian Code

200

When the Roman Empire fell, it was split into how many parts?

 2 - West and East

200

Which of the two churches viewed the Pope as the supreme authority of the church?

Western Roman Catholic

300

people who oppose the use of icons for worship

iconoclast

300

The divide between the Eastern Orthodox Church and Roman Catholic Church became known as what?

The Great Schism

300

True or False: The Justinian Code DID NOT play a crucial role in the development of modern legal traditions.

FALSE

300

What did Diocletian do to change the way the Roman Empire was ruled?

Gave lands in the east to a co-emperor

300

Beginning in the 400s CE, Germanic tribes from present-day Germany and Denmark invaded Britain. These different groups became known as which group of Christians?

Anglo-Saxons

400

separation or split from the church

Schism

400

Which church wanted to include the “in the Son” reference to the Holy Spirit?

Western Roman Catholic Church

400

True or False: Justinian had trouble creating the Justinian Code because of one jurist known as Tribonian. 

FALSE

400

Who was the Ottoman sultan who led the siege of Constantinople?

Sultan Mehmed II
400

Men in monasteries did good deeds, lived separate from the world, and were known as what?

Monks

500

to declare that a person or group is no longer a member of the church

Excommunicate

500

Which church DID NOT want to include the “in the Son” reference to the Holy Spirit?

Eastern Orthodox Church

500

Theodora and Justinian had which major church built?

Hagia Sophia

500

In 1299, Osman captured the city of Konya, later the capital was moved to Constantinople. Osman’s growing empire became known as what?

The Ottoman Empire

500

True or False: The Patriarch of Constantinople (Eastern Orthodox Church) believed he was equal to the Pope. 

TRUE

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