The Byzantine Empire

Question 0

What two countries does the Bosporus link together?

Answer 0

Asia and Europe

Question 1

Constantinople’s Geography

Answer 1

Located on the Bosporus, a strait that connects the Black Sea to the sea of marma to the Mediterranean Sea

Question 2

What did Constantinople’s location make it?

Answer 2

A natural cross- road for trade

Question 3

Where where the trade roads?

Answer 3

Moscow to Mediterranean and China to Western Europe

Question 4

How did the Byzantines grow rich?

Answer 4

From trade and the taxes on traded goods

Question 5

Byzantium was under the control of many different people including

Answer 5

Greece , Rome and later Byzantine

Question 6

What did Constantine rename Byzantium

Answer 6

Constantinople

Question 7

After the naming of Constantinople what did the city become

Answer 7

The eastern capital of the Roman Empire

Question 8

What is Constantinople presently called

Answer 8

Istanbul, turkey

Question 9

When did Constantinople get renamed

Answer 9

After the Roman Empire fell in 476 AD

Question 10

The Byzantine empire lasted until

Answer 10

1453 AD

Question 11

How did the Byzantine empire last until 1453 AD

Answer 11

Trade- because of the riches of the trading