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Byzantine Empire
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He moved the capital to the East and became emperor

Who is Constantine

100

State-secret weapon of the Byzantine empire.

What is "Greek Fire"?

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 greatest church constructed under the reign of  Justinian.

What is the Hagia Sophia?

200
The capital city named for Constantine.
What is Constantinople?
200

DAILY DOUBLE!! 

Former name of Constantinople.

200

Pictures/paintings of Jesus Christ and biblical characters of the OT and the NT.

What are icons?

200
The head of the western church.
Who is the Pope?
200
Byzantine laws that were so good they were even used in modern governments.
What is the Code of Justinian?
300

Important and wise leader of the Byzantine Empire who sadly left the empire in ruin.

Who is Justinian?

300

The 5 Patriarchal cities.

What were Alexandria, Jerusalem, Antioch, Constantinople and Rome?

300

DAILY DOUBLE!!


Title of the head of the eastern church.

300

The western church was located here.

What is Rome or the Vatican?

300

The Hagia Sophia is now this.

What is a museum/mosque?

400

The division of this happened in 1054. Clue: Rome and Constantinople

What is the church being split--Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox?

400
The name for Constantinople today.
What is Istanbul?
400

Byzantine missionaries to Russia.

Who are Cyril and Methodius?

400
Orthodox priests can do this but catholic priests can't.
What is get married?
400

This group of Turks conquered the Byzantine Empire.

Who are the Ottoman Turks?

500
Constantinople was located in the country called this today.
What is Turkey.
500

The name of the riot that Justinian encountered and defeated with the advice of his wife.

What was the Nika Revolt?

500

The place in Constantinople that once housed events such as chariot races.

Hippodrome

500
This is the language of the Roman Catholic church.
What is Latin?
500

The number one 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?