Justinian's Rule
Church rebuilt by Justinian
What is the Hagia Sophia?
Collection of 5,000 Roman laws considered to be useful
What is the Code?
Language used in Byzantine Orthodox services
What is Greek?
Person who renamed this city
Who is Constantine?
Impact on Russia
What is Orthodox Christianity?
Justinian's top general who was sent to retake North Africa and Rome
Who is Belisarius?
New legislation passed after 534
What are the Novellae?
Religious images used to aid devotion; a cause of division
What are icons?
Name of the city prior to being named Constantinople
What is Byzantium?
Impact on the Catholic church
What is split to form another religion?
Specific fortifications of Constantinople constructed in his time
What are sea walls, walls, and moats?
Textbook for law students on the applications of the law
What are the Institutes?
Name for the leaders of the Orthodox church
What are patriarchs?
Most famous and beautiful church in Constantinople
What is the Hagia Sophia?
Differences from the Catholic church (3)
What are...patriarchs, Greek language, divorce allowed, priests marry, emperor is head of church?
One cause for the downfall of the Byzantine Empire
What is Justinian Plague, attacks from East and West, final defeat by Ottomans
50 volumes of the opinions of legal experts on the law
What is the Digest?
Notable contribution of missionaries Cyril and Methodius to the Slavic peoples
What is the Cyrillic alphabet?
Current name of Constantinople
What is Istanbul?
Impact on Italian city-states
What is stimulating their trade and wealth...towards the Renaissance?
Justinian's wife
Who is Theodora?
How long Byzantine law lasted
What is 900 years?
Year that the Byzantine Orthodox church split from the Catholic church
What is 1054?
Location within the city of the riots during Justinian's rule
What is the Hippodrome?
Impact on Western civilization (5 details)
What is preserving law, Greek texts, literature, classical learning, math, history, medicine?