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Byzantine Empire
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First Emperor of the Byzantine Empire
Who is Constantine I
100
Schism
What is a split or division.
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 Byzantine Empire saved books and knowledge from these two nations.
What is Greece and Rome.
200
The capital city named for Constantine.
What is Constantinople?
200
A narrow water passage connecting to larger bodies of water.
What is a strait?
200
Pictures of holy people and saints.
What are icons?
200

What was the Hippodrome?

A place for entertainment, the Byzantines watched chariot races there. 

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 is Justinian or Constantine?
300
This group took over the Byzantine Empire in the 1400s.
Who are the Ottoman Turks?
300

Head of the eastern church.

Who is the patriarch?

300
Location of the center of the western church.
What is Rome or the Vatican?
300

How long did the Byzantine Empire continue after the fall of Rome?

1,000 years. 

400

Constantinople is located on this strait.

What is Bosporus Strait?

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

What is the Hagia Sophia?

Christian church ordered to be built by Justinian I. 

400

Name one achievement of Constantine the Great. 

Spreading christianity.

400

Name one engineering achievement of the Byzantine Empire.

Theodosian Walls, Hagia Sophia, or aqueducts. 

500
Constantinople was located in the country called this today.
What is Turkey.
500
The Byzantine empire fell due to disputes over these two things.
What are politics and religion?
500

Justinian's wife and co-emperor.

Who is Theodora?

500
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?
500
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?