Emperors
He organized and updated a code of laws for Byzantine
Justinian
Who was the enemy of the Byzantine Empire?
Turks(Muslims)
Who was the enemy of the Western Romans?
Germanic tribes
Who ended the persecution of Roman Christians
Who is Constantine
after the fall of the Byzantine empire Constantinople became part of the __________ empire
Ottoman
He converted to Christianity and made it the official religion
Constantine
Went around breaking religious idols
Iconoclast
What religion did the Germanic tribes convert to? (DD)
Christianity
Pictures of saints and other holy people are called what?
What is an icon/image
Materials from India, China, Egypt had to go through which city?
Constantinople
Outlawed the use of icons as idolatry
Capital of the Byzantine Empire
Constantinople
Capital of the Holy Roman Empire
(DB)
Rome
A split in the Christian church during the Byzantine/Holy Roman Empire
What is schism
The moment the Western Christians marched to the byzantine empire became known as the
Crusades
Moved the capital from Rome to Constantinople (DB)
Constantine
in 1453 the ___________ invaded the empire leading to the downfall
(DD)
Ottoman Turks
Highest ranking member of the church
Pope
Christianity was split into what two groups during the Great Schism. What were the two churches called?
What is Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox
Name two western christian kingdoms
France, Britain
Reclaimed the old lands, empire was at its peak
Justinian
How many years did the Western Christians rule the empire for?
57 years
What was the 2 reasons why the original roman empire fell?
germanic attacks, weak economy
Why did the great Schism happen?
2 popes, power of the church
The new western Christian kingdoms were once
Germanic Enemies