Geography
Constantinople was protected from what frontier?
What is the Eastern frontier
Justinian contributed to the _______ of trade.
What is the expansion of trade
The Eastern Church is centered where?
What is centered in Constantinople
What religious images were important in Byzantine art and architecture?
What is Icons
Through Justinian's codification of Roman law, Justinian provided the basis for the law codes of _________ Europe??
What is Western Europe
Constantinople was the crossroads of what?
What is trade
Justinian contributed to the codification of _______ laws?
What is Roman laws
The Western Church used what language in the liturgy?
What is Latin
What is the Byzantine building called that is a domed church?
What is the Hagia Sophia
_______________ traditions were preserved in the Byzantine Empire.
What is Greek and Roman traditions
One role of Constantinople is that it is the center of what?
Justinian contributed to the reconquest of former _______ territories?
What is former Roman territories
The authority of the Pope was eventually accepted where?
What is the West
What language was an important part of Byzantine culture?
What is Greek language
Constantinople was a distance from Germanic invasions in the what empire?
What is Western empire
Constantinople preserved classical ______-Roman culture
What is Greco
Justinian's contributions to Roman law impacted the basis of legal codes in ______?
What is Western Europe
Practices like celibacy were eventually accepted where?
What is the West
What type of Christianity was an important part of Byzantine culture?
What is Greek Orthodox Christianity
Authority of the _______ was accepted in the East.
What is Patriarch.
Constantinople was the seat of the Byzantine Empire until what conquest?
What is the Ottoman conquest
When Justinian reconquered territory what disease weakened the Byzantine empire?
What is Bubonic Plague
The Greek was used in the liturgy in what church?
What is the Eastern church
Byzantine culture continued to flourish because of ________ traditions?
What is Greco-Roman traditions
Who created the Cyrillic alphabet?
What is the brothers Cyril and Methodious