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Crusades and the Schism
Justinian
Russia
Potpourri
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What is the name of the capital of the Byzantine Empire?
Constantinople
100
What was the name of the Crusade that ended in the Western catholics taking over Constantinople
Fourth Crusade
100
Whose laws did Justinian revise into the Justinian Code?
Ancient Rome
100
List one way the Byzantine Empire influenced Russia.
Eastern Orthodox Christianity Cyrillic Alphabet
100
In what year did Constantinople fall to the Ottoman Turks?
1453
200
What is the name of the two seas which surround the Byzantine capital of Constantinople?
Black and Mediterranean
200
Which priests can marry? Eastern Orthodox or Western Catholic
Eastern Orthodox
200
What is the name of the church Justinian had built?
Hagia Sophia
200
Russia is named after this group of Vikings?
The Rus
200
This was the name for the supportive arches of the dome in Hagia Sophia?
Pendentives
300
The city of Constantinople is named after this Roman Emperor?
Constantine
300
List one cause of the schism between the Eastern Orthodox and Western Catholic churches.
Eastern Orthodox doesn't accept the Pope Priests cannot marry in the Western Church
300
Where did Justinian have the rebels of the Nika riots massacred?
The Hippodrome
300
Ivan IV was also know by this nickname
The Terrible
300
This was the name of the Muslim conqueror of Constantinople?
Mehmet II
400
The city of Constantinople is located between these two continents?
Europe and Asia
400
What was the main goal of the crusades?
Retake the Holy Land from the Muslims
400
What was the name of Justinian's wife?
Theodora
400
The term Tsar or Czar comes from what famous Roman person?
Caesar
400
The Roman name for the Hippodrome was?
The Circus Maximus
500
Constantinople was conquered by the Ottoman Turks in 1453 and renamed?
Istanbul
500
What was the name of the Pope who called the for the first Crusade?
Urban II
500
True or False The Byzantine Empire lost territory under the rule of the emperor Justinian.
False
500
What is the name for the Russian nobles?
boyars
500
During the fourth Crusade the city of Constantinople was ransacked and many of its treasures were taken to this Mediterranean city?
Venice