Dura-Europos
Constantine's Constantinople
Justinian's Reign
Icons
The Iconoclasm
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The name of the river where Dura-Europos was founded.
What is The Euphrates River
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The year that Dura-Europos was abandoned intact and never resettled.
100
The original Greek name of Constantinople.
What is Byzantion.
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The name of the sea to the south of Byzantion.
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The type of narrative present in the Vienna Genesis.
What is a continuous narrative.
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What the seated female in the Vienna Genesis personifies.
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The monastery where the majority of surviving Byzantine icons were made.
What is Saint Catherine's Monastery
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The technique involving wax used to create icons.
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The primary commandment associated with the creation of images.
What is the Second Commandment
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The religions that adhere to the Ten Commandments.
200
What the scene below was believed to have released to the world.
What is Justice
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The typical location of a Mithraeum.
200
The two frontiers readily accessible from Constantinople.
What are the Danube and Euphrates frontiers
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The topographical feature(s) likening Constantinople to Rome.
200
The biblical narrative in the image below:
What are The Three Magi
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The purpose of the gift that Theodora presents.
200
The 8th-century legend associated with icon creation.
What is the Legend of St. Luke
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The figures St. Luke was purported to have painted.
200
The etymology of "Iconoclasm."
What is "eikon" (icon, figure) + "kláō" (to break)
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The type of imagery that was (eventually) considered acceptable (think: dimensions).
300
The function of the room that early Christian worshippers would regularly meet in.
What is the Triclinium
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The reasons (2) why the Triclinium was an appropriate meeting site.
300
The remains visible in the image below:
What is the Hippodrome
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The year that the first Christian church built in Constantinople burned down.
300
The triangular, curved supports connecting a square base to a round dome.
What are Pendentives
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The year of the completion of the "largest interior space in the 6th-century world."
300
The name of the multi-person icon that encourages prolonged eye contact and connection.
What is the Virgin and Child with Angels and Saints
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The "type" of Mary is depicted in the above icon.
300
The church that epitomizes an iconoclastic image program.
What is the Church of Hagia Eirene
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The English translations of "Hagia Eirene" and "Hagia Sophia."
400
The likely type/purpose of the imagery in the photo below.
What is didactic imagery
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The technique with which the Synagogue wall was painted.
400
The origin of the material used to make the Column of Constantine.
What is Egyptian porphyry
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The mythological subject-matter of a capital found at the location of the Column of Constantine.
400
The cause of the rebuilding program that lead to the church that served Justinian's empire.
What are the Nika Riots
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The king who Justinian reportedly believed he "surpassed."
400
The dual message communicated by the oldest surviving icon of Christ.
What is Jesus's right = blessing, kind expression; Jesus's left = condemnation, angry expression
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The Old Testament event associated with the site where the Sinai Christ was made.
400
The official council meeting that focused on images and image making.
What is The Second Council of Nicea
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The name of the monk who defended the user of icons.
500
The figures (names) in the image below.
Who are Adam, Eve, and the Good Shepherd
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What the figures, when considered together, suggest about what followers can attain through baptism.
500
The estimated number of bread rations provided to citizens of Constantinople.
What is 80,000
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The collection of political and cultural concepts and practices by which the empire defined itself.
500
The event that occurred on the Italian Peninsula six years before the birth of Justinian I.
What is the Fall of Rome
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The group that contributed to the westward migration of the group that would eventually lead Rome (after its "Fall").
500
The 7th-century religion that was strictly against icons ("anionic").
What is Islam
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The council where church leaders decided to ban icons.
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The message portrayed in the image below.
What is "destroying icons = violence against God"
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The action of the featured iconoclasts.