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Follower of Jesus who helped spread Christianity throughout the Roman world.
Who is Paul?
Letters from Paul to the other communities.
What are the Epistles?
Give one reason for why Constantinople a good place for a capital?
-It was surrounded on three sides by water
-It was easy to protect
-It was on major trade routes.
Roman emperor who divided the empire in two and oversaw the eastern part.
Who is Diocletian?
The name by which the eastern half of the Roman Empire became known some time after.
What is the Byzantine Empire?
Why did Constantine legalize Christianity?
In a dream he was told he would win the battle if he painted crosses on all the shields. He did so, and he won.
Roman emperor who founded Constantinople as the new eastern capital of the Roman empire.
Who is Constantine?
A branch of Christianity that developed in the Byzantine Empire and that did not recognize the pope as its supreme leader.
What is Eastern Orthodoxy?
In what ways did Roman culture survive the Fall of the Western Empire?
Law and government, language, architecture, and religion.
One of the 12 apostles of Jesus; Roman Catholics consider him to be the first pope, or bishop of Rome.
Who is Peter?
Form of government in which citizens elect representatives to speak or act for them.
What is a republic?
Why was the Roman Empire divided in two?
A Roman emperor thought it was too big to be ruled by one man, so he divided it into two.
Religious leader and founder of Christianity.
Who is Jesus?
A person who is elected by citizens to speak or act for them.
What is a representative?
One reason for how the Byzantine Empire different from the Roman Empire?
Byzantine Empire: Roman Empire:
Spoke Greek, Spoke Latin,
Easter Orthodox Christianity, Roman Catholic,
Asian Architecture. Roman Architecture