Byzantine Empire
First Emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire (capital city is named after this person)
Who is Constantine I
A schism.
What is a split or division?
Another name for the Byzantine or Eastern Church.
What is the Orthodox Church or Greek Orthodox Church?
Today we call the Western church of Rome by this name.
What is the Roman Catholic Church?
The Byzantine Empire preserved learning of what two cultures/empires?
Greece and Rome
The capital city named for Constantine.
What is Constantinople?
The name of the Church in the Byzantine Capital city?
What is The Church of Holy Wisdom (Hagia Sophia)
Head of the eastern church.
Who is the patriarch (main Bishop....not the Pope)
Famous church created by Justinian I ...
What is the Hagia Sophia?
Location of Chariot Races and the Circus
What is the Hippodrome?
Theodora was an __________ before she met Justinian.
What is an actress with low beginnings?
The capital of Constantinople was described as
What is Lavish, rich, busy, a large trading port, and an exciting place filled with opportunity? City of Gold
City at the center of the eastern church.
What is Constantinople?
The Byzantine Empire was well defended by
What are tall walls surrounding the capital and water on three sides?
One thing the Greek Orthodox and Catholic Church had in common. . .
Same religious beliefs, similar part of the Afro-Eurasian Continent
Constantinople was located in the country called this today.
What is Turkey?
The Byzantine empire was weakened by these things...
What are invasions, plagues, politics and religion? (teacher discretion)
Justinian's wife is . . .
Who is Theodora?
For this reason, many nations wanted to take over Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire. (not religious reasons)
What is that it was located at the center of major trade routes?
The reason the eastern and western christian churches split.
What is because the western (Roman Catholic) church believed that you should pray directly to God and not to icons (pictures of saints and holy people) as the eastern church?