The year Justinian and Theodora come to power
527
the main religion still in Russia and Greece
The Orthodox Church
How did Rome pay for defending the empire?
raised taxes
Priests in the East could
get married
Group that crossed the Rhine to attack northern Gaul
Franks
Wrote Fragmenta Historium Graecorum
(Lived with the Scythians)
Priscus
Constantinople was located in the present-day city of
Istanbul, Turkey
When did Diocletian take power?
the late 200's
The Hagia Sophia was built in
530's
Controlled Carthage
Vandals
one of the most powerful German kings
Clovis
The river that formed the northern border of the Byzantine Empire
the Danube River
The year the Romans stopped paying the Goths to not attack them
408
Religious ceremonial walks by the Byzantine emperor were known as
processions
Attacked Rome from the north
Visigoths
ruled the Eastern half of the Roman Empire
Diocletian
Constantinople was located between the Aegean Sea and the
Black Sea
The Byzantines thought the emperor had been chosen by god to
lead both the empire and the church
the year all non-Christian religions were banned in the empire
381
two of the three groups that attacked Britain
Jutes, Angles, and Saxons
reunited the two halves of the Roman empire
Constantine
In the early 400's the Vandals invaded
Spain
Rome fell in this year
476
In the West, religious service were held in what language
Latin
"He was a man born into the world to shake the nations, the scourge of all the lands, who in some way terrified all mankind by the dreadful rumors noised abroad concerning him."
-Jordanes, from History of the Goths
Attila the Hun