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The Empress of Justinian I who advised him on many important legal and political affairs.
Who was Theodora?
The capital of the Byzantine Empire.
What was Byzantium, Constantinople?
The first great leader of the Byzantine Empire
Who was Justinian I?
Byzantine invention similar to a flamethrower
What was Greek Fire
Justinian the Great's greatest achievement was in what area?
What is law?
This group laid siege to and finally captured Constantinople in 1453.
Who were the Ottoman Turks?
The most magnificent church building of the early Middle Ages.
What was the Hagia Sophia?
Emperor who led a restoration of the Byzantium's power and regained much Anatolian and Balkan territory for the empire.
Who was Basil I?
What is Holy Wisdom?
Portion of the world in which Christianity was the dominant religion
What was Christendom?
General who saved Constantinople during the second siege by the Arabs.
Who was Leo III?
A strait located in the south-eastern corner of Europe.
What was Bosporus?
Emperor who defeated the Avars and the Persians and partitioned the empire into military provinces.
Who was Heraclius?
A Slavic script based on the Greek alphabet
What was the cryillic alphabet?
The Codification of existing Roman law, combined with Biblical principles
What was the Justinian Code?
Justinian's gifted general who reestablished the Roman imperium over North Africa, Italy, and parts of Spain.
Who was Belisarius?
The Church that gradually developed after the permanent division of the Roman Empire; claimed to have remained more orthodox than its Western counterpart.
What was the Eastern Orthodox Church?
Emperor whose reign marked the greatest height of the Byzantine Empire since the days of Justinian the Great.
Who was Basil II?
Byzantium, Constantinople
What was New Rome?
The basis of Erasmus's 1516 edition of the Greek New Testament and protestant translations during the Reformation.
What was the Byzantine Text?
Byzantine missionary who carried Eastern Orthodoxy to the Bulgars, Moravians, and Slavs in the 19th century.
Who was Methodius?
During the fourth crusade, sailors from which growing trade city led French crusaders against Constantinople.
Which was Venice, Italy?
The last Byzantine Emperor who pleaded with the West for help.
Who was Constantine XI?
called "the Conqueror"
Mohammed II
The controversy of whether people should pray to and worship icons