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Great Schism
Unique Culture
Defense & Conquest
Empire Impact
Miscellaneous
100
Split between the Eastern and Western Christian churches.
What is the Great Schism?
100
Artistic depiction of Jesus or saints.
What is an icon?
100
Justinian believed this was to blame for the loss of so much of the Roman Empire.
What is negligence?
100
Name for the Eastern half of the Roman empire
What is Byzantine?
100
Narrow body of water that goes across land.
What is a strait?
200
People who were against the worship of objects.
Who are iconoclasts?
200
This structural design characterized Byzantine architecture.
What is a large dome?
200
Heavily burning, water-resistant chemical mixture.
What is Greek Fire?
200
These people spread Eastern Orthodox Christianity to Eastern Europe.
Who are missionaries?
200
Belief statement.
What is a creed?
300
Bishop of Rome, claimed authority over other patriarchs by apostolic succession.
Who is the pope?
300
Byzantines had great respect for this women, the wife of emperor Justinian.
Who is Theodora?
300
Allowed the Ottomans to conquer Constantinople.
What effect did the cannon, powered by gunpowder, have on Constantinople?
300
Alphabet created by missionaries for the Slavic people.
What is the Cyrillic alphabet?
300
This person had the power to remove the patriarch of Constantinople.
Who is the Byzantine Emperor?
400
The controversy over icons divided Christians in the Byzantine Empire with Christians here.
What is Western Europe?
400
Reason that the unique Byzantine culture spread outside of the empire.
What is the result of Byzantine leaders showing off their wealth to visitors?
400
Under this emperor, the Byzantine empire reached its largest size ever.
Who is Justinian?
400
Reorganization of Roman laws done in 529 CE.
What is Justinian's Code?
400
Bishops could trace their authority back to the original followers of Jesus.
What is apostolic succession?
500
The head of the Eastern orthodox church today.
Who are the patriarchs of different countries?
500
Byzantine culture is a mix of these three things.
What is Greek, Roman and Eastern Orthodox?
500
Main contributing factor that led to the fall of the Byzantine Empire.
What is the arrival of outside invaders?
500
3 results of Justinian's Code.
What discriminated against non-Christians, made the emperor more powerful and gave property rights to women.
500
Also known as "Holy Wisdom."
What is the Hagia Sophia?