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Who was the first Emperor of the Byzantine Empire, who Constantinople is name after?

Constantine I

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What does Schism mean?

A split or division

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Today we call the Eastern Church centered in Constantinople by this name.
What is Eastern Orthodox Church or Greek Orthodox Church?
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Today we call the Western Christian church of Rome by this name.
What is the Roman Catholic Church?
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What was the name of the huge and beautiful church created by Justinian?

Hagia Sophia

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What was the original name of Constantinople?

Byzantium

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What disease killed tens of millions of people during this time?

Bubonic Plague?

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Pictures of holy people and saints.
What are icons?
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The head of the western church.
Who is the Pope?
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Byzantine laws that were so good they were even used in modern governments.
What is the Code of Justinian?
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What is emperor Justinian famous for?

The Justinian Code, large building projects.

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This is how the plague was brought to the Byzantine Empire.
Who are the fleas on rats?
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Who was head of the Eastern Orthodox church during the Byzantine Empire?

The emperor

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Location of the center of the western church.
What is Rome or the Vatican?
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The Hagia Sophia is now this.
What is a Mosque?
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What is the name of Constantinople today?

Istanbul

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The name for Constantinople today.
What is Istanbul?
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City at the center of the eastern church.
What is Constantinople?
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What was the language of the Eastern Orthodox Church?

Greek

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This group defeated the Byzantine Empire.
What is the Ottoman Turks?
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What modern country was Constantinople located in?

Turkey

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How did the riots and burning of Constantinople under Justinian's rule begin?

Blues and Greens (Chariot fans) got upset at Justinian for imprisoning their members and rioted.

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Who was Theodora?

Justinian's wife.

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