Byzantine Empire
Constantinople served as the capital of the Byzantine Empire. What is it called today?
What is Istanbul?
This is the political and social system of the Middle Ages.
What is feudalism?
These TWO leaders represented the heads of the Western and Eastern Christian churches.
Who are the Pope and the Patriarch?
The Crusades centered on this region of the world which contains religious sites important to the three major monotheistic religions.
What is the Holy Land?
This type of animal helped spread the disease through fleas that carried the bacteria.
What are rats?
This was the riot during which Empress Theodora gave her famous speech advocating for Justinian to stay in Constantinople and fight.
What is the Nika Riots?
This important waterway next to Constantinople connects the Black Sea to the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Bosphorus Strait?
This economic system centered on self-sufficient farming estates run by a vassal and worked by peasants.
What is manorialism?
The Church took a yearly tax of 10% of a person's income. What is this tax called?
What is a tithe?
This is the number of major Crusades that took place.
What is eight?
This major trade route between Europe and Asia helped spread the plague across continents.
What is the Silk Road?
This is the confederation of Slavic peoples that lived in what is today western Russia and Ukraine.
Who are the Kievan Rus?
This Byzantine legal document organized and simplified centuries of Roman law.
What is the Justinian Code?
These raiders from Scandinavia attacked European coastal towns and rivers during the early Middle Ages.
The Great Schism permanently divided Christianity into the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches. When did this event take place?
When is 1054 CE?
This pope called for the First Crusade in 1095 at the Council of Clermont.
Who is Pope Urban II?
One long-term result of the plague was a shortage of these workers, leading to a breakdown of the feudal system.
Who are serfs or peasants?
This is the word for people whom are given land to manage (manors) by nobles.
Who are vassals?
The Byzantine Empire is famous for its hybrid culture. What was that culture called?
Prior to being crowned Holy Roman Emperor, Charlegmane was known as Charles the Great, king of which kingdom?
What is the Kingdom of the Franks?
This pope crowned Charlemagne emperor in 800 CE, strengthening the alliance between church and state.
Who is Pope Leo III?
This crusade was unusual because Christian crusaders attacked and looted the Christian city of Constantinople.
What is the Fourth Crusade?
Following the Black Plague, this powerful organization, one of the most powerful in all of Medieval Europe, lost power.
What is the Church?
This group is responsible for reviving trade during the Middle Ages, leading to the eventual spread of the Black Plague.
Who are the mongols?
The Byzantine Empire's name comes from the original Greek colony on which it was founded. What was the name of that colony?
What is Byzantium?
Emperor Charlemagne started a renaissance due to his support of art and culture. What was this renaissance called?
What is the Carolingian Renaissance?
This alphabet, created by Byzantine missionaries Cyril and Methodius, helped spread Christianity to slavic kingdoms.
What is Cyrillic?
One long-term effect of the Crusades was the increase of trade between the Middle East and Europe. Which kingdom became exceedingly rich as a result?
What is Italy?
What is Yersinia pestis?
These are the second highest ranking clergy in the Catholic Church. One of their responsibilities is picking the pope.
Who are cardinals?