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A large and wealthy city that was the imperial capital of the Byzantine empire and later the Ottoman empire, now known as Istanbul
What is Constantinople?
Religious images used by eastern Christians to aid their devotions; they were banned in the Orthodox Church for a while.
What are icons?
Opposing or even destroying images, especially those set up for religious devotion in the belief that such images represent idol worship, "smashing of images".
What is iconoclasm?
Strait of water between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean Sea; location of Constantinople.
What is Bosphorus?
The eastern half of the Roman Empire, which survived after the fall of the Western Empire at the end of the 5th century C.E. Its capital was Constantinople, named after the Emperor Constantine.
What is the Byzantine Empire?
The official split between the Roman Catholic and Byzantine churches that occurred in 1054.
What is the Great Schism?
The act of banishing a member of the Church from the communion of believers and the privileges of the Church (Kicking them out of the Church).
What is excommunication?
A branch of Christianity that developed Western Europe and that recognized the Pope as its supreme head.
What is Roman Catholicism?
The Cathedral of Holy Wisdom in Constantinople, built by order of the Byzantine emperor Justinian. It later became a mosque and a museum.
What is the Hagia Sophia?
Byzantine emperor in the 6th century A.D. who reconquered much of the territory previously ruler by Rome. He initiated an ambitious building program, including the Hagia Sofia, as well as a new legal code.
Who was Justinian I?
Emperor of the Roman Empire who moved the capital to Constantinople. He eventually converted to Christianity as well.
Who was Constantine?
The Christian religion of the Byzantine Empire in the middle east that formed from Christianity's schism between the remains of the western and eastern Roman Empire; it had the emperor and the patriarch of Constantinople as its leaders.
What is Eastern Orthodox?
Head of the Roman Catholic Church
Who is the Pope?
Justinian's wife and empress, she advised her husband, advocated for legal rights for women, and convinced her husband to stay in the city during the Nika riots.
Who was Theodora?
[DAILY DOUBLE] It was the most violent riot that Constantinople had ever seen to that point, with nearly half the city being burned or destroyed and tens of thousands of people killed. It was started by the Blues and Greens during public games. It almost cost Justinian his throne.
What were the Nika Riots?
Highest church official of the Orthodox Church, originally appointed by the Byzantine emperor.
What is a patriarch?
The body of Roman civil law collected and organized by order of the Byzantine emperor Justinian around 534 C.E.
What is the Justinian Code?
Patterns or pictures made by embedding small pieces of stone or glass in plaster on surfaces such as walls, floors, and ceilings.
What are mosaics?