Geography
Where was Constantinople located?
On a peninsula between Europe and Asia where modern Istanbul is.
What are the laws the Justinian created called?
What was Justinian's Code?
What are the names of the two churches?
The Eastern Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church
What was the main religion that the Byzantines stuck to/used?
Eastern Orthodox Christianity
What was the alphabet created by Cyril and Methodius?
The Cyrillic Alphabet
This is the largest inland sea on Earth
What is the Caspian Sea?
What is the event when people tried to overthrow Justinian called?
What was The Nika Revolt?
Where are the Eastern and Western churches located?
Eastern: Constantinople
Western: Rome
What building did Justinian order to be built?
Hagia Sophia
Where are some of the Byzantine Trade routes located?
Between Europe and Asia, and between the Mediterranean and the Black Sea
This biome is located beneath the tundra, and is comprised of forests of evergreen trees.
What is the Taiga?
This person was the real power behind Justinian.
Who was Empress Theodora?
When did the churches split?
1054 A.D.
What did mosaics usually show a picture of?
Religion
What were churches mainly filled with?
Icons, mosaics, or art
This is the longest river in Europe.
What is The Volga River?
This region is Justinian famous for taking back
What is Rome?
What are three differences between the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches?
1. Catholic mass was spoken in Latin, Orthodox was Greek.
2. Catholics acknowledge the Pope as the spiritual leader / Vicar of Peter. Orthodox Christians don't.
3. Priests in the Orthodox church can get married, Catholic priests cannot.
These works of art feature saints, or biblical figures painted on wood. They were used to help to focus on prayer.
Icons
This title was first used by Ivan III. It was used to denote emperors of Russia until the 20th century.
Czar
These mountains are considered the geographic border between eastern Europe and Asia.
What are the Ural Mountains?
The end of the Nika Riots resulted in the deaths of this number of people
What was 30,000?
These are the highest rank of the Eastern Orthodox Church. All equal in power, despite electing one as their main representative.
Who are the Patriarchs?
These are a large feature of Orthodox Church architecture. Saint Sophia's Cathedral and St. Basil's in Russia have lots of them.
What are pointed domes?
These peoples, nomadic horsemen from the steppes, once ruled over the Russian people for over 200 years.
The Mongols