Rise and Fall of Rome
Christianity
Roman Cultural Achievements
Byzantine Empire
Great Schism
100

This carried water to cities over land, allowing the Romans to expand their cities away from natural freshwater supplies.

What are aqueducts?

100

Jesus was raised as part of this religious group.

What is Judaism/a Jew?
100

At the Colosseum, the Romans could watch sporting events and this type of spectacle.

What are gladiatorial fights?
100

The religion of the Byzantine Empire.

What is Christianity/Eastern Orthodoxy?
100

The Great Schism split up Christianity into these two traditions.

What are Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy?
200

This activity was much safer, faster, and cheaper during Pax Romana.

What is trade by sea?

200

Jesus's teachings were recorded in these, told from the perspectives of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.

What are the Gospels?

200

Rather than achieving idealistic beauty standards, Roman sculptors tried to make their statues look this way.

What is realistic?

200

The language of the Byzantine Empire.

What is Greek?

200

The name of the people who believed that the use of icons was like worshipping objects.

Who are iconoclasts?

300

The original intention/main purpose for the Romans building such an extensive road network.

What is easier military movement? (so that soldiers could march quickly from place to place)

300

Most of the New Testament of the Christian Bible is made up of these.

What are the epistles?

300

This man was known for being a great orator, and his speeches are still studied today.

Who is Cicero?

300

Emperor Justinian rebuilt this grand structure after the Nika Revolts.

What is the Hagia Sophia?

300

(1) The leader of the Roman Catholic Church, and (2) the language in which Catholic rituals are performed.

(1) Who is the pope? (2) What is Latin?

400

Three things that Augustus did to stabilize the empire.

What is (1) winning/ending civil wars, (2) shrank the size of the army, and (3) increased the pay of soldiers?

400

Holy Communion and resting on Sunday fall under this category in Christian tradition.

What are rituals?
400

In the 400s, the Romans wrote down this law code about family relations, property, inheritance, and more.

What are the Twelve Tables?

400

The emperor who helped the Byzantine Empire reach its greatest size.

Who is Justinian?

400

(1) The leader of the Eastern Orthodox Church during the age of the Byzantine empire, and (2) the language in which Orthodox rituals are performed.

(1) Who is the Byzantine emperor? (2) What is Greek?

500

Three factors of the Imperial Crisis that led to the decline of Rome.

What is (1) corruption, (2) inflation, and (3) foreign invasion?

500

(1) Christians believe that God takes human form as this person. (2) They also believe that God created this.

(1) Who is Jesus? (2) What is the universe?

500

Ptolemy wrote this influential book that shaped the way that astronomers viewed the universe until the 1400s.

What is the Almagest?

500

Three reasons why Constantinople's location was ideal.

Where is (1) the Bosporus Strait/between Black and Mediterranean Seas; (2) between Europe and Asia; and/or (3) a peninsular location?

500

The three events that led to the Great Schism.

What is (1) disagreements over the Nicene Creed, (2) the iconoclast conflict, and (3) the pope and Byzantine emperor fighting over leadership of Christianity?