This empire was in eastern Europe, and lasted from about 500 to 1453 AD
What is the Byzantine Empire?
100
A type of religious image painted on wood and considered sacred.
What is an icon?
100
This event happened first.
A. The Roman pope excommunicated Cerularius.
B. The Roman and eastern churches split.
C. The Roman capital moved to Byzantium.
D. The Roman Empire fell.
What is the Roman capital moved to Byzantium?
100
What does the dome of Hagia Sophia represent?
What is heaven?
100
The Eastern Orthodox Church separated from this major religious group.
What is the Roman Catholic Church?
200
The capital city of the Byzantine Empire.
What is Constantinople?
200
A sacred rite of public worship.
What is liturgy?
200
Byzantine emperor Leo III established the policy of iconoclasm for this reason.
What is he thought people were worshiping pictures rather than God.
200
This describes the economic situation of poor people in Constantinople.
What is the poor worked in exchange for bread?
200
The Byzantine Empire was a continuation of this western empire.
What is the Roman Empire?
300
Christian church that developed in eastern Europe.
What is the Eastern Orthodox Church?
300
In the Eastern Orthodox Church, the bishop of an important city.
Who is the patriarch?
300
After the riots of 532, this person was responsible for rebuilding Constantinople.
Who is Justinian?
300
This was the capital of the Byzantine Empire?
What is Constantinople?
300
Life in Constantinople was (more or less) advanced than in western Europe.
What is more?
400
Byzantine emperor from 527 to 565 AD, known for putting lots of money into public works.
Who is Justinian I?
400
Group of laws put forth by Emperor Justinian I.
What is Justinian's Code?
400
The Byzantine Empire united ______ and ______.
What is church and state?
400
This was most important feature of Justinian's Code?
What is it created a systematic body of law?
400
The name of the stadium where the chariot races took place.
What is the Hippodrome?
500
Emperor's beautiful wife that encouraged him to rebuild Constantinople after it was destroyed by riots.
Who is Theodora?
500
A formal division in a church or religious body.
What is a schism?
500
In the Byzantine Empire, this person had the final say
in religious matters.
Who is the emperor? (He had final say even over the patriarch)
500
This describes the relationship between the Byzantine religion and government.
What is church and state were united?
500
Constantinople's _________ made it easy to defend and excellent for trade.