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This is the original name of the city that Constantine moved the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire to.
What is Byzantium?
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This is the religion practiced in the Byzantine Empire.
What is Christianity?
100
Following the fall of Rome, the emperor of the Byzantine Empire compiled Roman law and created a law code known as this.
What is Justinian's Code?
100
This empire greatly influenced Russia.
What is the Byzantine Empire?
100
This group of people toppled the Byzantine Empire.
What are the Ottoman Turks? (or Seljuk Turks works too)
200
These are the three continents for which Constantinople was the center of trade.
What are Africa, Europe, and Asia?
200
Following the Schism, this church was centered in Constantinople.
What is the Eastern Orthodox Church?
200
Built in Constantinople, this was the main Christian Church of the Byzantine Empire.
What is the Hagia Sophia?
200
This man helped to create an alphabet for the Slavic languages.
Who is St. Cyril?
200
This is the year that the Byzantine Empire fell.
What is 1453AD?
300
This is the main sea to the northeast of Constantinople.
What is the Black Sea?
300
Following the Schism, this church utilized Latin in their liturgy.
What is the Catholic Church?
300
Based on imperial power and Christianity, this was the main artistic style of the Byzantine Empire.
What are mosaics?
300
These were the two main seas that helped expand trade in Russia.
What are the Black Sea and the Baltic Sea?
300
After Constantinople becomes Istanbul, the Hagia Sophia converts from a church to this.
What is a mosque?
400
This is the type of geographical feature on which Constantinople is located.
What is a peninsula?
400
Known as this, the argument over the use of icons in the Christian Church helped lead to it's split.
What is the Iconoclastic Controversy?
400
Infatuated with antiquity, the Byzantine Empire preserved this type of culture and traditions in their libraries and monasteries.
What is Greco-Roman?
400
Ivan the Great moved the capital of Russia from Kiev to this city.
What is Moscow?
400
Istanbul will become the capital of this civiliation.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
500
This is the name that was given to Constantinople after the Ottoman conquest.
What is Istanbul?
500
Following the Schism, this title became the head of the Eastern Orthodox Church.
What is the Patriarch?
500
Justinian helped to expand this by opening an open air market which goods could be bought and sold.
What is trade?
500
This helped influence Russian unification.
What is Orthodox Christianity?
500
Constantinople fell during this series of wars.
What are the Crusades?