dates

Question 1

354-430

Answer 1

Augustine of Hippo; 397-398 writes Confessions, 426 completes City of God

Question 2

408-450

Answer 2

Reign of Theodosius II

Question 3

410

Answer 3

Alaric & Visigoths sack Rome, Roman armies pull out of Brtiain

Question 4

415

Answer 4

Murder of Hypatia

Question 5

430

Answer 5

Death of Augustin of Hippo

Question 6

431

Answer 6

Council of Ephesus (3rd Ecumenical Council)

Question 7

451

Answer 7

Council of Chalcedon (4th Ecumenical Council)

Question 8

434-453

Answer 8

Attila & Huns threaten East and West

Question 9

455

Answer 9

Vandals sack Rome

Question 10

476

Answer 10

Fall of Western Roman Empire to Odoacer

Question 11

493

Answer 11

Theodoric the Ostrogoth becomes ruler of Italy

Question 12

500

Answer 12

Clovis, King of Franks, converts to Catholic Christianity

Question 13

527-565

Answer 13

Reign of Justinian

Question 14

529

Answer 14

Justinian closes Platonic Academy in Athens

Question 15

532

Answer 15

Nika Revolt

Question 16

532-537

Answer 16

BUilding of Hagia Sophia

Question 17

533-534

Answer 17

Codification of laws

Question 18

533-554

Answer 18

Campaigns of Reconquest (Vandals in North Africa, Goths in Italy)

Question 19

541

Answer 19

Plague begins

Question 20

6th century- early 7th century

Answer 20

“transmitters” in the west, Boethius, Cassiodorus, Isidore of Seville

Question 21

594

Answer 21

Death of Gregory of Tours

Question 22

604

Answer 22

Death of Pope Gregory the Great

Question 23

610-641

Answer 23

Reign of Heraclius

Question 24

602-628

Answer 24

Great War with Persia (Byzantine-Sassanian War)

Question 25

613

Answer 25

Antioch falls to Persia

Question 26

614

Answer 26

Persians besiege and capture Jerusalem, ‘true cross’ taken to Ctesiphon

Question 27

627

Answer 27

Heraclius defeats Persian army

Question 28

628

Answer 28

Khusro II assassinated, end of Byzantine-Sassanian war

Question 29

622

Answer 29

Muhammad’s Hijra

Question 30

632

Answer 30

Death of Muhammad

Question 31

632-661

Answer 31

Rashidun Caliphate

Question 32

636

Answer 32

Battle of Yarmuk, Byzantines defeated

Question 33

637

Answer 33

Jerusalem surrendered to Arabs by Patriarch Sophronius

Question 34

661-750

Answer 34

Umayyad Caliphate in Damascus

Question 35

684-705

Answer 35

Reign of ‘Abd al-Malik

Question 36

732

Answer 36

Battle of Tours (Battle of Poitiers)