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What was the city that stood beside the strategic Bosporus and was where the capital of the Roman Empire was moved to?

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Byzantium

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What did Constantine call Byzantium?

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“New Rome”

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When was the Roman Empire permanently divided into Eastern and Western portions?

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395

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What was New Rome later called in honor of Constantine that was the capital of the Eastern Empire?

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Constantinople

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What was the Eastern Roman Empire also called?

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Byzantine Empire

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Who was the first great leader of the Byzantine Empire?

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Justinian I

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Who was Justinian’s gifted general who waged long, successful wars against the barbarian Ostrogoths, Vandals, and Visigoths?

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Belisarius

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What was the most magnificent church building of the early Middle Ages and the greatest achievement of the Byzantine empire?

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Cathedral of Hagai Sophia

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What was the portion of the world in which Christianity was the dominant religion?

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Christendom

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What was Justinian’s greatest personal achievement that was his codification of existing Roman law combined with biblical principles?

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Justinian /Code

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Who was Justinian’s lovely intelligent wife who was easily the most famous and important woman in Byzantine history?

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Empress Theodora

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Who were the barbarians who invaded Italy?

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Lombards and Normans

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Who were the barbarians who invaded the Byzantine Empire from the north?

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Avars, Bulgars, and Slavs

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Who were the barbarians who invaded the empire from the east?

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Persians

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What was a Byzantine invention similar to a flamethrower?

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Greek fire

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What were military provinces that the empire was divided into to provide better defense and more efficient rule in the Roman Empire?

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themes

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Who was the emperor who met the direst of these attacks by defeating the Avars and Persians?

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Heraclius

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What was a new menace to Byzantium that arose in the Arabian Penisula?

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Islam

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Who was the great general responsible for saving Constantine during the second seige?

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Leo III

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What was the practice where many people were praying to icons instead of the God that they represented?

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Iconoclastic Controversy

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What is an abstract, simplified image or picture of Christ, Mary, or one of the saints?

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icons

15
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Who was the emperor under which the empire further reinforced its borders and gained the province of Armenia?

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Basil II

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Who was the emperor who was a Macedonian by birth who led a restoration of Byzantium’s power?

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Basil I

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Under whose rule was the Byzantine Empire at its greatest height since the days of Justinian the Great?

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Basil II

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Who were vicious warriors who came out of Central Asia during the 11th century and took much of the Middle East from the Arabs?

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Seljuk Turks

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What battle was a major victory for the Seljuk Turks in 1071, allowing them to overrun Asia Minor?

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Battle of Manzikert

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When was the Battle of Manzikert?

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1071

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Who was the emperor who conceived a new plan to save his lands by appealing to the Roman Church?

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Alexius Comnenus

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What were meant to recover the Holy Land from the Muslims and defend an ally of Christendom?

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crusades

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Which of the crusades was where sailors from the growing trade of Venice, Italy led the French crusaders against the Venetian’s Chief economic rival, Constantinople?

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Fourth Crusade

24
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When was the city of Constantinople sacked and divided?

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1204

25
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What was the new group of Turks who began pouring into Asia Minor during the 14th century?

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Ottomans

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Who was the last Byzantine emperor?

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Constantine XI

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Who led the Turks in the destruction of Constantinople in 1453 after a seven-week seige?

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Mohammed II

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What was the religion that gradually deveopled after the permanent division of the Roman Empire?

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Eastern Orthodox Church

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When did the Eastern and Western Orthodox churches officially split?

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1054

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What was developed by the Eastern Orthodox Church and was a public worship service of superstition, symbolism, and pageantry?

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Greek liturgy

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Who was the prince of Kiev and ruler of early Russian who adopted Eastern Orthodox Christianity as the official religion of Rome?

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Vladimir I

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Who was known as the “Apostle of the Slavs”?

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Cyril

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Who carried Eastern Orthodoxy to the Bulgars, Moravians, and Slavs in the 9th century?

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Methodius

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What was a Slavic script based on the Greek alphabet that became the foundation for the Russian and Slavic alphabet?

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Cyrillic alphabet

35
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What was the Byzantine church’s greatest contribution to civilization?

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the preservation of the Greek New Testament

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What was the basis of Erasmus’s 1516 edition of the Greek New Testament of all Protestant translations made of the New Testament during the Reformation including the King James Version of 1611?

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Byzantine text

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What was one of the surviving examples of Byzantine architecture that was the most famous Eastern Orthodox Church?

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Hagia Sohpia

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