What is it?
What was the capital of the Western Roman Empire?
Rome
Hellenistic culture
Greek Culture that heavily influenced the Byzantine empire
Name one visigothic church in Spain
San Juan de Baños (Palencia), Quintanilla de las Viñas (Burgos) and San Pedro de la Nave (Zamora)
What is modern-day constantinople?
Istanbul, Turkey
The most important king of the Frankish Kingdom, from the Carolingian dynasty, who was crowned emperor by the people in AD 800.
Charlemagne
What was the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire or the Byzantine Empire?
Constantinople
basileus
another title given to the emperor of the Byzantine empire
Name 4 of the most important germanic kingdoms.
Burgundians, Ostrogoths, Visigoths, Franks
TRUE or FALSE
In the Byzantine Empire, Latin remained as the predominant language.
FALSE. Latin was replaced by Greek
What was the main economic activity in the Byzantine empire?
Which germanic tribe settled on the Italian Peninsula?
Ostrogoths
Burgundians
germanic tribe who settled in Eastern Gaul
Name three reasons why Constantinople was chosen as the capital of the Byzantine Empire.
Geographical center of the empire, surrounded by water, a harbor
TRUE or FALSE:
The Byzantine Empire managed to avoid the presence of Germanic tribes in its territory and its cities did not suffer from ruralisation and decline.
What do you call this ethnic group of nomadic peoples from Central Asia who moved into Western Europe in the late period of the Roman Empire?
Germanic tribes
Which germanic tribe settled in Hispania?
Visigoths
latifundios
was the name given to large farms dedicated to agriculture and livestock farming
In 409, three germanic tribes reached the Iberian Peninsula. Name these three tribes
Suevi, Vandals and Alans
What is the most distinctive feature or element of the Visigothic architecture?
Horseshoe Arch
During whose reign did the period of greatest splendour of the Byzantine empire take place?
Justinian I
VOCABULARY:
An agreement between two kingdoms or countries.
Treaty or Pact
Byzantine mosaics
a form of art with mostly religious or political themes made with small stones and pieces of glass, or tesserae, and used to decorate Byzantine buildings.
Name three factors that led to the division of the Roman Empire.
Territorial conquest stopped, foreign pressure, difficulty controlling the vast territory
What political system was established by the Visigoths on the Iberian Peninsula in which the king was chosen was chosen by elections rather than by inheritance.
Elective monarchy
Who occupied Constantinople in 1453 which marked the end of the Byzantine empire?
Ottoman Turks