Byzantine Empire Flashcards
What trade routes connected the Byzantine Empire with Asia?
Silk Roads
Byzantine art is most famous for producing these tiled pictures?
Mosaics
What Russian leader first used the term Czar?
Ivan the Great
What disease weakened the Byzantine Empire during the 14th century?
The Black Death
What geographical landform of Russia made nomadic migrations much easier?
Steppe
What church was built in Constantinople and was later turned into a mosque?
Hagia Sophia
What were the Vikings called that gave Russia its name?
Rus
Much like the monasteries of Western Europe, the Byzantine Empire preserve what types of ancient knowledge and learning?
Roman and Greek
What Russian leader originally converted to Orthodox Christianity and set up a close relationship with the Byzantines?
Vladimir 1st
When Christianity split in 1054 CE, what two church were left?
Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox
Rivers links the Byzantine Empire with what other civilization?
Russia
Crusaders from what Italian trading city looted and sacked Constantinople during the $th Crusade?
Venice
The Orthodox Church believe in conducting services in the ______ of an area.
Languages
What alphabet is the basis for most Eastern European languages?
Cyrillic
What type of buildings were very common in the Byzantine Empire?
Domes
