Byzantine Empire
What was the "Great Schism"?
What is a split or division between the Roman Catholic church and the Eastern Orthodox church.
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?
A narrow water passage connecting to larger bodies of water is called a...
What is a strait?
What was the Hippodrome?
A place for entertainment, the Byzantines watched chariot races there.
Byzantine laws that were so good they were even used in modern governments.
What is the Code of Justinian?
Head of the eastern church.
Who is the patriarch?
Location of the center of the western church.
What is Rome or the Vatican?
How long did the Byzantine Empire continue after the fall of Rome?
1,000 years.
Constantinople is located on this strait.
What is Bosporus Strait?
What weapon did the emperor Basil have engineers redesign?
Catapult
Name one achievement of Constantine the Great.
Spreading christianity or the Theodosian Walls.
After the Nika Riots, what does Justinian do?
Theodora convinces him to stay and he kills 30,000 of his own citizens at the Hippodrome.
The Byzantine empire fell due to these two things.
Outside invasions and riots.
Name one of Emperor Justinian's achievements.
The Hagia Sophia or Justinian's Code.
Name 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? Also due to language.