Byzantine Goverment
Important Dates
Vocabulary
General
100

These are the highest political, military and religious leaders.

What is the Basileus?

100

476AD

What is the fall of the Western Roman Empire?

100

A roof in the shape of a half-sphere.

What is a dome?

100

The current name for Constantinople.

What is Istanbul?

200

They conducted government business.

What is State Officials?

200

1453

What is the year the Byzantine Empire fell?

200
A religious image, painted on wood and considered scared.

What is an icon?

200

Latin and Greek

What is the main languages of the Byzantine Empire?

300

They were Diplomats.

What is the people who represented Byzantium in other territories?

300

1000 Years

What is how long the Byzantine Empire lasted?

300

An emperor.

What is the sovereign or supreme male monarch of an empire?

300

A Byzantine church designed with the Greek-cross plan.

What is the Hagia Sophia?
400

The army's responsibilities.

What is protecting the empire and maintaining law and order

400

527AD-565AD

What is the dates of Justinian's Rule?

400

A mosaic

What is a pattern or picture made using many small pieces of coloured stone or glass ?

400

They recognized the authority of the Pope.

What is the Roman Catholic Church?

500

A compilation of the laws that applied throughout the empire.

What is the Code of Justinian?

500

1054

What is the East-West Schism?

500

Greek-cross plan

What is a building with a  floor in the shape of a cross, with four branches of equal length?

500

The Orthodox Church recognized this person's authority.

What is the Patriarch of Constantinople?