Culture
What language did most people in the Byzantine Empire speak?
Greek
New capital of Roman Empire
Constantinople
He split the Byzantine Empire into 2 halves.
Diocletian
Rome stopped __ in 409 AD.
Barbarians
____ controlled religion in the EAST
the emperor
Greek Orthodox
The Romans needed to increase the taxes?
disease, wealthy leaving and decrease in population
Why was less food produced?
Farmers abandoned their land.
The wealthy left because the government was __.
Justinian's Code
Why did trade suffer?
There was less food and the food was expensive.
What did the Romans do to keep the Germanic Tribes off their land?
They paid them.
Who took over the abandoned land?
This caused the disease in the empire.
lead poisoning (in the water from pipes)
Justinian did this to promote Christianity
He built the Hagia Sofia church
The wealthy left Rome because the government was __.
corrupt
Why were Roman emperors weak?
They were taken over by force.
This leader was from central Asia and let an invasion into Rome.
Atilla the Hun
When coins are made with less gold and money is worth less, it is called __.
inflation
Justinian's wife
Theodora
This is the religion that the WEST eventually became.
Roman Catholic
Diocletian divided the empire in half for this reason.
too big to govern
to make it easier to govern
King Alaric sacked Rome in 410 AD because Rome did this.
2 Things caused a decrease in population
disease and wealthy people leaving
Constantinople was a better place for a capital for this reason.
It connected Europe and Asia