Final Review Chapter 10

Question 0

Who considered themselves the equals of the apostles?

Answer 0

Rulers of the Eastern Roman Empire (the Byzantine empire) (the Holy Roman Empire)

Question 1

What did they figure out in Council of Nicaea

Answer 1

figured out false beliefs
Denied Arian heresy
Declared that Christ was “of the same being” as God

Question 2

What were the 4 eastern patriarchs (the main church cities)?

Answer 2

Constantinople
Antioch
Jerusalem
Alexandria

Question 3

What did the Nicene creed NOT say?

Answer 3

Did NOT SAY that God created Jesus and therefore was more powerful than Jesus

Question 4

What is the concept of caesaropapism?

Answer 4

The vesting of all spiritual and political authority in a single person in the Byzantine empire

Question 5

Who proclaimed Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire?

Answer 5

Theodosius

Question 6

What weakened the Sassanians in the 300s?

Answer 6

Conflict on two frontiers

Question 7

Which group threatened the Holy Roman Empire from the east most of the time?

Answer 7

The Sassanian Persians

Question 8

Who was the empress Theodora?

Answer 8

An empress of the Byzantines empire who was married to Justinian and helped to rule the empire

Question 9

What did Theodora advise in the revolt of 532?

Answer 9

She told her husband not to flee the Capitol during the revolt of 532

Question 10

What is Justinean’s code based upon?

Answer 10

The roman legal code

Question 11

How did Justinian differ from his successors?

Answer 11

He exercised his power very forcefully and worked to fully unite the Roman Empire and his successors didn’t

Question 12

What did Justinean do?

Answer 12

Waged a war to reunify the Roman Empire and codified and streamlined roman law

Question 13

What was the language of the Byzantine empire?

Answer 13

Greek

Question 14

How is Justinean the last Roman Emperor?

Answer 14

He was the last native Latin-speaking Byzantine emperor who worked for the reunification of the Roman Empire

Question 15

What was the social life of a Byzantine peasant like?

Answer 15

Focused on family, church, and farming

Question 16

What is a hippodrome?

Answer 16

The equivalent or a roman coliseum where they held athletic events and stuff for the people

Question 17

Why did population decline in the 6 and 7 hundreds?

Answer 17

Plague

Question 18

How did life change for women after the Muslims conquered Constantinople?

Answer 18

Their activities were restricted

Question 19

What caused Iconoclasm?

Answer 19

Things weren’t going well in the Byzantine empire and emperor Leo III figured that God was punishing them so he ordered all the religious icons destroyed

Question 20

Who lead iconoclasm?

Answer 20

Leo III

Question 21

When was the great schism and what caused it?

Answer 21

The great schism was caused by iconoclasm and a number of doctrinal differences between the two churches in 1054

Question 22

When was the battle of Manzikert and what were the impacts of the Byzantine loss there?

Answer 22

1071 the Byzantines lost the land where they grew food and trained their soldiers

Question 23

Which group conquered west Asia in 1453?

Answer 23

Th Ottoman (Seljuk) Turks

Question 24

Who defeated prince Igor?

Answer 24

The Bulgars (from Bulgaria)

Question 25

Who created the Kievan Russian state in the 9th century?

Answer 25

Oleg

Question 26

Who adopted eastern Christianity as the official church of Russia?

Answer 26

Vladimir

Question 27

Who ruled Kiev at the height of it’s power?

Answer 27

Vladimir

Question 28

What was the advantage of the three-field system?

Answer 28

They had more food to feed the people