The collapse of which empire signaled the onset of the Dark Ages in western Europe?
What is the Roman Empire
100
Which empire introduced the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Cyrillic alphabet to Russia
What is Byzantine Empire
100
Who worked for the rights of women and the poor?
Theodora
100
"Western Europe owed a debt of gratitude to the Empire that for almost a thousand years ensured the survival of Christianity during a time when Europe was too weak to accomplish that task."
What is Byzantine Empire
200
What city sat at the crossroads of water and land trade routes?
Constantinople
200
What group founded the city of Kiev?
Vikings
200
This leader united the Mongols and conquered much of Asia using terror as a weapon
Genghis Khan
200
This part of the Justinian Code was the TEXTBOOK that law students studied to learn the laws
What is Institutes
200
An influence that spread from the Byzantine Empire to Early Russia was the
Orthodox Religion
300
The Hagia Sophia inspired the leaders of this country to model his capital after Constantinople
Russia
300
What empire was Ivan III inspired by?
What is the Roman
300
What emperor met Marco Polo?
Kublai Khan
300
This part of the Justinian Code was a section for the NEW LAWS
What is the Novellae
300
When Germanic invaders overran the Western Roman Empire in the 400s CE, trade and government were disrupted and people did what?
abandoned the cities
400
The Byzantine Empire was conquered by the
Ottoman Turks
400
Ivan III is best remembered for
Being the first Czar and defeating the Mongols
400
This was the world's largest empire
Mongol
400
This part of the Justinian Code was the largest part of the code, it quoted and COMMENTED on the laws
What is the Digest
400
This institution forbid the use of icons and encouraged services in the local language?
What is Eastern Orthodox Church
500
Schisms, the foremost threat to the Christian Church in the Middle Ages, were
Formal divisions over differences in doctrine
500
What does Tsar or Czar stand for?
Caesar
500
What three factors lead to the Mongol Empire collapse
Rebellions, Economic Problems, Corruption
500
This part of the Justinian Code contained 5,000 Roman Laws