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Contrasting Cultures
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The frist Roman emperor to convert to Christianity.

Who is Constantine the Great?

100

The religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.

What is Christianity? 
100

Romans preferred urban cities while Germanic tribes lived in this kind of environment.

What are rural areas?

100
This was the result of moving the capital of the empire to Constantinople.

What is Rome split into the Eastern and Western Empires? 

200

This Germanic tribe sacked Rome in this year.

Who are the Visigoths and when was 410? 

200

A huge region of varied cultures under the control of one government.

What is an empire? 

200

The Romans acquired their food by this method while Germanic tribes preferred this.

What are agriculture and hunting? 

200

This empire contained Jerusalem.

What is the Eastern Roman Empire?

300

Many people of all classes converted to Christianity as a result of this.

What is Constantine's conversion? 

300

A person owing loyalty to and entitled to protection by a state or a nation.

What is a citizen? 
300

Mediterranean Education vs. Germanic cultures

What is highly literate vs. illiterate?  

300

The Western Roman Empire is bordered by these two bodies of water.

What are the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea?

400

Between the years 400-430 CE, the Eastern and Western Roman Empires fought against the invasion of these four tribes.

Who are the Franks, Vandals, Visigoths, and the Huns?

400

A person who has been convinced to change from one religion to another.

What is a convert?

400
Mediterranean hygiene vs. Germanic cultures.

What is valued public & private baths vs. dirty and smelly?

400

Foreign soldiers weakened the Roman army for these four reasons.

What is not knowing Rome's laws, customs, language (latin), and loyal only for pay?

500

After this event Constantine decided to stop the persecution of Christians. 

What is the battle that made him the ruler of the whole empire? 

500

The name given to outsiders by the Romans, who viewed them as uncivilized.

What is barbarian?

500

The Roman government was characterized by these two ideals while Germanic culture was loosely organized around these three groups.

What are centralized and highly organized, and kings, fighting bands, and family groups?

500

This northwestern island was not part of the Eastern, or Byzantine, Empire.

What is Britain?