Great Schism
The two churches argued over if which people should be allowed to get married or not?
Priests
Constantinople was named after which emperor?
Constantine
This explorer bumped into North America while looking for a new route to India, incorrectly calling the people he met Indians in the process
Christopher Columbus
The capital of the Byzantine Empire, named after Emperor Constantine, that became the “New” Rome is…
Constantinople
A tiny body of water that separates two large land masses like the Bosporus and Bering…
Strait
The two churches argued over which language to use during services, as the Roman Catholic church wanted it spoken in...
Latin
The Great Schism in 1054 divided which religion?
Christianity
Emperor of the Byzantine empire that had the Hagia Sophia built and united the empire by making Christianity the only religion
Justinian
All roads were said to have led to this city founded by Romulus and Remus, named…
Rome
It is now a museum, but it began as a church before being turned into a mosque, means Holy Wisdom and has a domed roof is the structure called…
Hagia Sophia
The two churches argued over which language should be used during services, as the Eastern Orthodox Church wanted the services spoken in...
Greek
Europeans wanted to find new routes to get to the goods found in which country?
China
Married to Justinian, this empress made life better for women
Theodora
Europeans wanted silk from China and spices from…
India
The title for the leader of the Roman Catholic Church.
Pope
The two churches argued over if a picture, cross, statue or any other item could be used to pray to. Those items were called...
Icons
The Pope is head of the Roman _____ Church.
Catholic
the person that dethroned the last emperor in the Western Roman Empire
Odoacer
The “City of Peace,” that was started by the Israelites, controlled by Christians and taken by Muslims is called…
Jerusalem
The secret weapon Mehmed II used when leading the Turks to recapture Jerusalem was a…
Cannon
In what year did the church split?
1054
Muslims and Christians would have a series of wars known as The...
Crusades
The leader of the Turks that conquered the Byzantine Empire
Mehmed II
Once the Muslims took Constantinople, they renamed it…
Istanbul
The Islamic group that brought an end to the Byzantine Empire were the…
Ottoman Turks