Decline and Fall of the Byzantines

Question 1

What did the Byzantine empire remain

Answer 1

an effective economic force,
connecting the Western world to the trade of South and East Asia through the Silk Roads

Question 2

What Plagues were brought through trade and were deadly to a large part of the Byzantine Empires population?

Answer 2

the plague of Justinian (6th Century) and the Black Death (14th Century)

Question 3

What was the first major setback of the byzantine empire

Answer 3

its temporary contraction and exhaustion at the hands of the Sassanid Empire

Question 4

What was this war called

Answer 4

Byzantine-Sassanid War from 602-628 CE

Question 5

What did this conflict do

Answer 5

ultimately weakened both states

Question 6

What led to the fall of the Sassanids and the loss of more than half of the Byzantine Empire?

Answer 6

to Arab conquests of the 7th century, and the same Muslim invaders

Question 7

The time when the Byzantine Empire experienced a resurgence of growth (in the 11th and the 12th century)?

Answer 7

the Macedonian Renaissance

Question 8

What caused the Byzantine Empire to finally end?

Answer 8

the taking of Constantinople by the Turkish Muslim Ottoman Empire in 1453

Question 9

What things weakened the Byzantine Empire before its end by the taking on Constantinople?

Answer 9

decades of invasions, wars, plagues, internal strife, and civil war