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100

What is the current name of the city of Constantinople?

What is Istanbul?

100
Constantinople was an appealing spot for a capital city because it lay in these two continents.
What are Asia and Europe?
100

He is often recognized as the greatest Byzantine emperor and was taught by who?

Who is Justinian I and Justin?

100
To try to save the Roman empire, the emperor decided to what?

What is split the empire into two.

100

Constantinople is located between which two bodies of water?

What is the Black Sea and the Mediterranean Sea

200
In 330 C.E., this emperor of the Roman Empire moved his capital to Byzantium and created a two capital structure for the Roman Empire.
Who is Constantine?
200
Constantinople was also easy to defend because of this geographical advantage.
What is it was surrounded on three sides by water?
200

Constantinople was destroyed in a full-scale rebellion that had begun as a protest. What was the name of the riot?

What is the Nika Riot?

200

Who was the Roman emperor that split the Roman empire? 

Who is Diocletian?

200

This person is the head of the Catholic Church and he lives in what city? 

Who is the pope and Rome

300
Byzantium was later named "New Rome" until the emperor finally named the city after himself and gave it this name.
What is Constantinople?
300
Constantinople's closeness to water ways and its position on two different continents made it a perfect hub for this.
What is trade?
300
Though encouraged to flee the city by his advisors, she encouraged Justinian I the stay and fight; he eventually put down the revolt because of her encouragement.
Who is Theodora, Justinian's wife?
300

These are the names of the two sides of the Roman empires

What is: Western Roman Empire and Eastern Roman Empire

300

What are icons?

What is a picture of a holy person

400
Though the western half of the Roman Empire fell in 476 C.E., the Byzantine Empire continued on for this many more years.
What is 1000?
400

Why was Constantinople called the crossroads of the world and give 2 examples?

What is because it was in the middle of the Mediterranean region where everyone came to trade. Hagia Sophia, the Obelisks, the Hippodrome, Aqueducts, etc. 

400

As part of a grand rebuilding of Constantinople, Justinian I created bridges, public bathes, parks, roads, hospitals and churches, among them this magnificent church. And with the church, what are the minarets used for?

What is Hagia Sophia? To announce to the city time to pray

400

These are the two capitals of the two Roman Empires

What are: Rome (West) and Constantinople (East)

400

Name three defenses of Constantinople

What are: walls, Greek fire, archers, moat, etc. 

500
The Byzantine Empire continued to endure until it was conquered by this attacking group.
Who are the Ottoman Turks?
500
Because of their great wealth, the citizens of Constantinople enjoyed a sewer system, social services for the poor, and even regularly attended chariot races at this famous stadium.
What is the Hippodrome?
500

Justinian I and his committee studied the laws of the Roman Empire revising and improving them thoroughly into a document that has come be known as this. And why was it so monumental to the Byzantines?

What is Justinian's Code? And because people could understand the laws. 

500

What are 3 reasons why the Roman Empire fell? With brief explanations

What are: Christianity, Inflation, Invasions, etc. 

500

What are three areas of land that Justinian conquered? 

What are North Africa, Spain, and Italy