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First Emperor of the Byzantine Empire
Who is Constantine I
100
Schism
What is a split or division?
100
Today we call the Eastern Church centered in Constantinople by this name.
What is Eastern Orthodox Church or Greek Orthodox Church?
100
Today we call the Western Christian church of Rome by this name.
What is the Roman Catholic Church?
100
The Byzantine Empire saved books and knowledge from these two civilizations.
What is Greece and Rome.
200
The capital city named for Constantine.
What is Constantinople?
200
A narrow water passage connecting to larger bodies of water.
What is a strait?
200
Pictures of Jesus, Mary and saints.
What are icons?
200
The head of the western church.
Who is the Pope?
200

Constantinople lies at the junction of these two continents

What is Europe and Asia?

300
Important and wise leader of the Byzantine Empire.
Who is Justinian or Constantine?
300
This group took over the Byzantine Empire in the 1400s.
Who are the Ottoman Turks?
300
Head of the Eastern Orthodox church.
Who is the Patriarch?
300
Location of the center of the western church.
What is Rome or the Vatican?
300

These Roman laws were recorganized and were written down forming the Byzantine laws into a single work (they are the basis of law used in modern governments still today)

What is the Code of Justinian?

400
Constantinople is located on this strait.
What is Bosporus Strait?
400
The name for Constantinople today.
What is Istanbul?
400
City at the center of the eastern church.
What is Constantinople?
400
Because the Byzantine Empire had this weapon, it was able to survive.
What is Greek Fire?
400

Some of Justinian's rivals turned a riot between the Blues and the Greens into a larger rebellion about taxes and other policies. This was called the _________riots.

What is Nika Riots?

500
During the East-West Schism, the Pope in Rome did this to the Patriarch in Constantinople

What is excommunicate (no longer part of the Church)?

500

This factor greatly contributed to the fall of the Byzantine empire

What are invasions from outside the empire including crusaders from Europe and the Ottoman Turks?

500
The co-emperor who championed rights for women and convinced her husband to stand against the Nika Revolt.
Who is Theodora?
500
For this reason, many nations wanted to take over Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire.
What is that it was located at the center of major trade routes?
500
These two seas are at either end of the trade route between Scandinavia and the Byzantine Empire.
What are the Baltic and Black Seas?