Christianity
In 380 CE, this church became the state religion of the Roman Empire.
What is the Roman Catholic Church?
This is a collection of laws used for reference and study created by Justinian and a ten man commission.
What is the Code of Justinian?
This group of people were responsible for the Fall of the Roman Empire.
What are the Visogoth Barbarians?
During Emperor Justinian's reign, Justinian made peace with this Empire in order to retake many lost Roman lands.
What is the Sassanid or Persian Empire?
This general was responsible for helping Justinian end the Nika Riots & retake land in North Africa and the Italian Peninsula.
Who is Belisarius?
This church gained power and stabilized Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire.
What is the Roman Catholic Church?
She helped influence Justinian to pass laws ensuring women gained more rights in society.
Who is Empress Theodora?
The expansion of this people into Western Europe in the 4th century led to the decline of Roman influence and power throughout Europe.
What is the Germanic people?
The Byzantine Empire became the center of these two cultures as they survived the Germanic Invasions of the Roman Empire here.
What are the Greek & Roman cultures?
What is Renovatio Imperii?
When Emperor Justinian had this church rebuilt after the Nika Riots, it became the largest building in the world.
What is the Hagia Sophia?
The Code of Justinian helped preserve these two things after the Fall of Rome.
What are Roman Laws and the Latin Language?
This Emperor renamed Constantinople and moved the Roman capital there.
Who is Emperor Constantine?
This was the original name of the city of Constantinople. It was a Greek outpost that later became the capital of Rome.
What is Byzantium?
The Hagia Sophia is now a mosque, which is a church for this religion.
What is Islam?
This faith was the official religion of the Byzantine Empire.
What is the Eastern Orthodox or Greek Orthodox Church?
Early in Justinian's career as emperor, this event proved problematic, and if it weren't for Theodora's advice, Justinian would not have remained Emperor.
What is the Nika Riots?
This Emperor was responsible for dividing the Roman Empire into a tetrarchy.
Who is Diocletian?
These two factors heavily impacted the city of Constantinople and made it a suitable replacement for Rome as the new capital of the Roman Empire.
What are the fact that it was a located on a peninsula with water on three sides, and that it was located on the midpoint of the Silk Road?
The Byzantine Empire served as a buffer zone between Europe and these two Asian groups.
What are the Mongol Empire & the faith of Islam?
Emperor Constantine and Licinius worked together to pass this law that ended persecution of minority religions, such as Christianity, in the Roman Empire.
What is the Edict of Milan?
In addition to the Hagia Sophia, Justinian had this church rebuilt.
What is the Church of the Holy Apostles?
This Emperor was responsible for building a wall that separated England from Scotland in the Second Century.
Who is Emperor Hadrian?
This Emperor changed things in the Byzantine Empire by naming people from outside of the aristocracy to positions as advisers and governors.
Who is Emperor Justinian?
In 49 BCE, Julius Caesar was famous for crossing this river to invade the Italian Peninsula.
What is the Rubicon?