This city grew into an important, wealthy city after it was made the capital of the Roman Empire in the East.
What is Constantinople?
This emperor built the city of Constantinople as his capital.
These actions were the reason that the Visigoths who lived inside the Roman Empire started attacking Rome.
What is the Romans treating the Visigoths badly and enslaving some of their people?
This aspect of Constantinople's location is what made it very wealthy.
What is that Constantinople was located on the Silk Road?
In these Christian centers, monks tried to live a pure Christian life through praying, helping the needy, and operating schools and hospitals.
What are monasteries?
This emperor wrote a law code to simplify Roman laws and make them easier to use.
Who is Justinian?
This emperor divided the Roman Empire into four parts to make it easier to govern.
Who is Diocletian?
This half of the Roman Empire was overrun and fell because of repeated invasions of Germanic Barbarians.
What is the Western Roman Empire?
The correct order of these events in the life of Justinian.
- The death of Theodora
- The completion of the Hagia Sophia Church
- The writing of Justinian's Code
- The end of Justinian's Conquests to the West
What is:
- The writing of Justinian's Code
- The completion of the Hagia Sophia Church
- The death of Theodora
- The end of Justinian's Conquests to the West?
This invention of Christian missionaries Cyril and Methodius allowed the Slavic people to hear the Christian message in their own language.
What is the Cyrillic alphabet?
This was one of the reasons the Western Roman Empire fell.
What was ________?
Possible answers:
Failing economy
Invasions of Germanic barbarians
Weak leadership
Political Instability
This emperor divided the Roman Empire into two parts permanently.
Who is Theodosius?
When the Pope (Bishop of Rome) requested military aid from the Byzantine Emperor because of invading barbarians, this was the Emperor's response.
What is to not send military aid?
Many soldiers in the Byzantine Army died because of this, ending Justinian's conquests in formerly Roman lands.
What is Justinian's Plague (pandemic)?
This Christian missionary brought the Christian message to Ireland, building churches and monasteries.
Who is Patrick?
According to the map, this barbarian people invaded North Africa.
Who are the Vandals?
This emperor was the last Roman Emperor to rule from Rome.
Who is Romulus Augustulus?
This made it very difficult for invaders to attack the city of Constantinople.
What is its geography (being surrounded by water on three sides)?
Bishops in the Byzantine Empire, unlike those in Western Europe, believed that this person was not the head of the worldwide Christian Church.
Who is the Pope?
These objects, defined as "representations of objects of worship", were briefly banned in the Byzantine Empire.
What are icons?
This item from the list below is NOT an example of how the Roman Empire influenced the modern world.
1. English contains many Latin words
2. The American government is built on some principles of Roman government
3. Many people in the West are Christians.
4. Latin is the most commonly spoken language in three European countries today.
What is "4. Latin is the most commonly spoken language in three European countries today."?
This Roman Emperor reconquered parts of the Western Roman Empire after they were conquered by barbarians.
Who is Justinian?
These Germanic barbarians invaded Britain, according to the map above.
Who are the Angles and Saxons?
This ruler could sometimes define how Christians worshiped. He could also use church money for government purposes.
Who is the Byzantine Emperor?
This separation between the Eastern and Western branches of Christianity happened in 1054.
What is the Great Schism?