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He moved the capital to the East and became emperor

Who is Constantine

100

One of the reasons Constantinople was chosen as the capital of the Byzantine empire.

What is: 

-protected on eastern frontier

-distance from Germanic invaders

-crossroads of trade

-easily fortified by a peninsula

-bordered by natural harbors?

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 greatest church constructed under the reign of  Justinian.

What is the Hagia Sophia?

200
The capital city named for Constantine.
What is Constantinople?
200

Former name of Constantinople.

What is Byzantium?

200

Eastern Orthodox works of art (usually paintings) depicting a religious scene or figure.

What are icons?

200
The head of the western church.
Who is the Pope?
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 codified Roman law.

Who is Justinian?

300

The language spoken in the Byzantine empire.

What is Greek?

300

Head of the eastern church.

Who is the bishop/partriarch?

300

The western church was located here.

What is Rome or the Vatican?

300

The Hagia Sophia is now this.

What is a museum/mosque?

400

The division of this happened in 1054. Clue: Rome and Constantinople

What is the church being split--Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox AKA-the Great Schism?

400
The Byzantine empire was a mix of these 2 older cultures.

What are Greece and Rome?

400
City at the center of the eastern church.
What is Constantinople?
400
Orthodox priests can do this but catholic priests can't.
What is get married?
400

The religion practiced inside St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow. 

What is Eastern Orthodox Christianity?

500

Ivan III gave himself this title.

What is czar/tsar or Caesar?

500

The language spoken by Russia. 

What is Cyrillic?

500

Justinian's wife.

Who was Theodora?

500
This is the language of the Roman Catholic church.
What is Latin?
500

The number 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?