Byzantine Empire
First Emperor of the Byzantine Empire
Who is Constantine I
Schism
What is a split or division.
Today we call the Eastern Church centered in Constantinople by this name.
What is Eastern Orthodox Church or Greek Orthodox Church?
Today we call the Western Christian church of Rome by this name.
What is the Roman Catholic Church?
The Byzantine Empire saved books and knowledge from these two nations.
What is Greece and Rome.
The capital city named for Constantine.
What is Constantinople?
A narrow water passage connecting to larger bodies of water.
What is a strait?
Pictures of holy people and saints.
What are icons?
The head of the western church.
Who is the Pope?
Byzantine laws that were so good they are the basis of law used in modern governments.
What is the Code of Justinian?
Important and wise leader of the Byzantine Empire.
Who is Justinian or Constantine?
This group took over the Byzantine Empire in the 1400s.
Who are the Ottoman Turks?
Head of the eastern church.
Who is the patriarch?
Location of the center of the western church.
What is Rome or the Vatican?
These two seas are at either end of the trade route between Scandanavia and the Byzantine Empire.
What are the Baltic and Black Seas?
Constantinople is located on this strait.
What is Bosporus Strait?
The name for Constantinople today.
What is Istanbul?
City at the center of the eastern church.
What is Constantinople?
Because the Byzantine Empire had this weapon, it was able to survive.
What is Greek Fire?
Byzantine missionaries and trade
What were the ways the Byzantine Empire influenced Russia and Eastern Europe?
Constantinople was located in the country called this today.
What is Turkey.
The Byzantine empire fell due to disputes over these two things.
What are politics and religion?
Justinian's wife.
Who is Theodora?
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?
Access to trade routes
What is the most important geographic feature of the Byzantine Empire?