Final Review Chapter 10 Flashcards
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Who considered themselves the equals of the apostles?
Rulers of the Eastern Roman Empire (the Byzantine empire) (the Holy Roman Empire)
What did they figure out in Council of Nicaea
figured out false beliefs
Denied Arian heresy
Declared that Christ was “of the same being” as God
What were the 4 eastern patriarchs (the main church cities)?
Constantinople
Antioch
Jerusalem
Alexandria
What did the Nicene creed NOT say?
Did NOT SAY that God created Jesus and therefore was more powerful than Jesus
What is the concept of caesaropapism?
The vesting of all spiritual and political authority in a single person in the Byzantine empire
Who proclaimed Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire?
Theodosius
What weakened the Sassanians in the 300s?
Conflict on two frontiers
Which group threatened the Holy Roman Empire from the east most of the time?
The Sassanian Persians
Who was the empress Theodora?
An empress of the Byzantines empire who was married to Justinian and helped to rule the empire
What did Theodora advise in the revolt of 532?
She told her husband not to flee the Capitol during the revolt of 532
What is Justinean’s code based upon?
The roman legal code
How did Justinian differ from his successors?
He exercised his power very forcefully and worked to fully unite the Roman Empire and his successors didn’t
What did Justinean do?
Waged a war to reunify the Roman Empire and codified and streamlined roman law
What was the language of the Byzantine empire?
Greek
How is Justinean the last Roman Emperor?
He was the last native Latin-speaking Byzantine emperor who worked for the reunification of the Roman Empire
What was the social life of a Byzantine peasant like?
Focused on family, church, and farming
What is a hippodrome?
The equivalent or a roman coliseum where they held athletic events and stuff for the people
Why did population decline in the 6 and 7 hundreds?
Plague
How did life change for women after the Muslims conquered Constantinople?
Their activities were restricted
What caused Iconoclasm?
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
Who lead iconoclasm?
Leo III
When was the great schism and what caused it?
The great schism was caused by iconoclasm and a number of doctrinal differences between the two churches in 1054
When was the battle of Manzikert and what were the impacts of the Byzantine loss there?
1071 the Byzantines lost the land where they grew food and trained their soldiers
Which group conquered west Asia in 1453?
Th Ottoman (Seljuk) Turks
