Deck 6

Question 1

Chalcedonian Creed (or Definition)

Answer 1

confesses who Christ is now: God and man, one person in two natures

Question 2

Monophysites

Answer 2

a person who holds that in the person of Jesus Christ there is only one nature (wholly divine or only subordinately human), not two.

Question 3

Justinian

Answer 3

worked to restore the empire
He introduced new laws that protected both slaves and women.
He was the last Roman emperor to speak Latin.

Question 4

Theodora

Answer 4

a Byzantine empress through her marriage to emperor Justinian.
She became empress upon Justinian’s accession in 527
was one of his chief advisers, albeit from humble origins

Question 5

Nika Riot

Answer 5

took place against Byzantine Emperor Justinian I in Constantinople over the course of a week
Nearly half of the city’s buildings were damaged and tens of thousands perished
mismanagement from an earnest emperor trying to do his best but failing disastrously.

Question 6

Hagia Sophia

Answer 6

It was built as a Christian church in the 6th century ce
is now a mosque
center of religious, political, and artistic life for the Byzantine world and has provided us with many useful scholarly insights into the period

Question 7

Procopius

Answer 7

the principal Roman historian of the 6th century,
writing the: History of the Wars, the Buildings, and the Secret History.

Question 8

The Wars

Answer 8

book of 6th century militay history

Question 9

The Buildings

Answer 9

Describes the churches, public buildings, fortifications, and bridges Justinian erected throughout his empire, from the Church of St. Sophia in Constantinople to city walls at Carthage.

Question 10

The Secret History

Answer 10

a scathing indictment of the emperor Justinian and his sixth-century Byzantine court. Never has there been a more calculated attempt to ruin an entire reign in the eyes of posterity