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Potpourri
100
The Byzantine ruler that preserved the Roman legal system.
Who is Justinian?
100
Banning someone from church membership.
What is excommunication?
100
Capital of the Byzantine Empire.
What is Constantinople?
100
"Third Rome".
What is Moscow?
100
Leader of the Roman Catholic church.
Who is the Pope?
200
The Byzantine ruler that improved the lives of women.
Who is Theodora?
200
A belief that goes against the teachings of the church.
What is heresy?
200
The "Church of the Holy Wisdom" which is the best example of Byzantine architecture.
What is Hagia Sophia?
200
Russian nobles.
What are boyars?
200
Byzantine legal idea that people should be ruled by laws and not by leaders' whims.
What is the Justinian Code?
300
He took the title of czar and from this point on all future leaders took the same title.
Who is Ivan IV?
300
Name two art forms used in churches to help tell stories from the Bible.
What are icons and mosaics?
300
Rebellion that occurred in 532 that threatened to overthrow Justinian.
What is Nika Rebellion?
300
Viking prince and leader of the Rus that took control of Novgorod.
Who is Rurik?
300
Leader of the Eastern Orthodox church.
What is Patriarch?
400
Byzantine military adviser that crushed a major rebellion during the reign of Justinian.
Who is Belisarius?
400
In 1054 A.D. the church split. Name the two churches and tell where they are located.
What is the Roman Catholic church in the west and the Eastern Orthodox church in the east?
400
Two Christian missionaries that created an alphabet to teach the Slavs about the Bible.
Who are Cyrill and Methodius?
400
Russian town hall style meetings.
What is veches?
400
How did the intellectual approach of the Byzantines differ from that of Western Europe after the fall of Rome?
What is west entered Dark Ages and East preserved Greco-Roman culture?
500
First ruler of an independent Russia.
Who is Ivan III?
500
Debate in the church over the use of icons.
What is the iconoclastic controversy?
500
Name two of the three reasons for the weakening and final collapse of the Byzantine Empire.
What are Barbarian Attacks, attacks by the Turks, and attacks by western crusaders on Constantinople.
500
Russian leader that forces Christianity on his people.
Who is Vladimir I?
500
What were the two reasons for the rebellion that took place in the Byzantine Empire in 532 A.D.
What is taxes and military failure?