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100

He moved the capital to the East and called for the Council of Nicaea to resolve an argument in the church about who Jesus was.

Who is Constantine

100

Justinian's wife.

Who was Theodora?

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 nephew of a trader who started a monotheistic religion on the Arabian Peninsula

Muhammad

100
The Crusades were military campaigns to free which city from Muslim rule?
Jerusalem
100

The greatest church constructed under the reign of  Justinian.

What is the Hagia Sophia?

200

He simplified the Roman laws but also sadly left the empire in ruin.

Who is Justinian?

200

Former name of Constantinople.

What is Byzantium?

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
The name for people who practice the religion of Islam

Muslims

200
How many Crusades were there?

4

200
Byzantine laws that were so good they were even used in modern governments.
What is the Code of Justinian?
300

Known as the Bulgar Slayer

Basil II

300

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

What was the Nika Revolt?

300

Head of the eastern church.

Who is the patriarch?

300

The western church was located here.

What is Rome or the Vatican?

300

Muhammad's writings were collected in this book. 

Qur'an

300

The only crusade to successfully capture Jerusalem

The 1st Crusade

300

The Hagia Sophia is now this.

What is a museum/mosque?

400

Emperor who split the land into Themes that were each guarded by it's trained peasant class. 

Who is Heraclius?

400
Justinian's general who won back formally Roman territories such as North Africa and Sicily. 

Who is Belisarius?

400
City at the center of the eastern church.
What is Constantinople?
400
This is the language of the Roman Catholic church.
What is Latin?
400

Muhammad left this city because the people were angry that he was promoting 1 God only. 

Mecca

400

The 4th crusade ended in the capture of this city

Constantinople
400

This group of Turks conquered the Byzantine Empire.

Who are the Ottoman Turks?

500

Stopped Muslim invaders from capturing Constantinople then took back lands in Asia Minor

Leo III

500

State-secret weapon of the Byzantine empire.

What is "Greek Fire"?

500
Orthodox priests can do this but catholic priests can't.
What is get married?
500

A belief or principle of a group of people

A doctrine

500

The three holy cities of Islam

Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem

500

This Emperor won back Constantinople from the Venetians in AD 1261.

Who is Michael VIII?

500

A nomad who does not speak Greek or Roman or accept roman culture

A barbarian.