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Survival of the Eastern Empire
The Division of the Christian Church
Byzantine Civilization
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A narrow body of water that cuts through land, connecting two larger bodies of water
What is a strait?
100
This was the major factor that caused the decline of the Byzantine empire
What is the arrival of invaders?
100
The controversy over icons divided Christians in the Byzantine empire from Christians in this area
What is Western Europe?
100
Eastern Orthodox missionaries traveled to this place to spread the faith of the Byzantine empire.
What is eastern Europe?
200
The name historians have given the surviving eastern Roman empire.
What is Byzantine?
200
This is how the invention of gunpowder contributed to the Ottoman's conquest of Constantinople.
What is gunpowder to help break through the city’s walls with cannons
200
This was the power that the emperor of the Byzantine empire had over the patriarch of Constantinople.
What is he could remove him?
200
This describes Justinian's impact on the Byzantine empire
What is the Byzantine empire reached its largest size ever
300
The Great Schism
What is the split between the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches in 1054?
300
This is why the use of icons angered iconoclasts
What is they believed worshiping icons was like worshiping objects?
300
This is what Justinian believed was to blame for the loss of so much of the Roman empire
What is negligence?
400
These were the two missionaries that invented the alphabet
Who are Cyril and Methodious?
400
This is three ways why Justinian might be considered a successful emperor
What is he enlarged the empire; rebuilt the Hagia Sophia; wrote important laws
400
This is who leads the Eastern Orthodox church today
What are patriarchs from different countries?
400
These are the ways that the Kievan Rus state was similar to the Byzantine empire
What is they both relied strongly on trade for power and income; both were Eastern Orthodox Christian; Kievan Rus cities reflected Byzantine architecture
500
This is what Justinian's Code revealed about how different groups were treated in the Byzantine empire
What is it showed that Jews and other non-Christians were discriminated against in different ways. It also showed that women were allowed to inherit property. Also protected some individual rights.
500
This is why the location of Constantinople was ideal for trade and defense.
What is Constantinople had easy access to both the Black Sea and the Mediterranean Sea via the Bosporus Strait. Merchants could buy goods east of Constantinople from Asia, and sell them to traders coming from west or north of Constantinople from Europe; It was ideal for defense because it was a peninsula, surrounded by water. There was only one side occupied by land which meant there were few ways to attack.
500
These are the events that led to the Great Schism.
What is Officials in the Christian church disagreed on specific issues. Christians argued whether Jesus was human, divine, or both. Christians in Western Europe and Christians in Eastern Europe differed on whether icons should be used as part of worship. Centuries after, disagreements began to appear about church leadership. Bishops of Rome known as the popes, claimed authority over the whole church, while eastern patriarchs and the Byzantine emperor disagreed.
500
This is how the Byzantine ideas lived on after the fall of the Byzantine empire
What is the Byzantine empire had influenced many outside peoples; missionaries spread the Eastern Orthodox faith to far away peoples including the Slavic lands; today that religion is still practiced by many Eastern Europeans, as well as the alphabet introduced by the missionaries; Many Russian buildings also reflect Byzantine architecture due to the spread of Byzantine culture