The Voc Of Byzantium

Question 1

Constantine

Answer 1

This Christian emperor moved the capital from Rome to Byzantium and rebuilt it.

Question 2

Byzantium

Answer 2

A small , Greek fishing village that Constantine chose to build his new capital. The Byzantine Empire is named after it.

Question 3

Constantinople

Answer 3

This city was located at the crossroads of the trade routes which made it the richest city in the Mediterranean for over 700 years. It was named after the emperor who built it.

Question 4

1,000 years

Answer 4

The Byzantine empire lasted these many years after the fall of Rome

Question 5

A. D 476

Answer 5

This is the year the Western Roman Empire fell

Question 6

Hippodrome

Answer 6

Stadium where Byzantines watched chariot races.

Question 7

Hagia Sophia

Answer 7

The church that Justinian rebuilt after the Nika riots.

Question 8

Strait of Bosphorus

Answer 8

Narrow waterways that allows ships to travel from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean Sea.

Question 9

Justinian

Answer 9

This emperor expanded the Byzantine Empire to its greatest size, reorganized the laws, and rebuilt The Hagia Sophia. Too bad he was hated by his people.

Question 10

Theodora

Answer 10

She was the controversial wife of Justinian that saved the empire during the riots and gave woman more rights l.

Question 11

Justinian Code

Answer 11

An organized system of laws that is the basis for many legal codes in the Western World today.

Question 12

Mosque

Answer 12

A holy place of worship for Muslims

Question 13

Byzantine Empire

Answer 13

The name for the Eastern Roman Empire, located at the crossroads of Europe and Asia ; It lasted from about 500 to 1453 C. E

Question 14

Byzantine Empire

Answer 14

The name for the Eastern Roman Empire, located at the crossroads of Europe and Asia ; It lasted from about 500 to 1453 C. E

Question 15

Istanbul

Answer 15

The name of Constantinople today.

Question 16

The Great Schism of 1054

Answer 16

The Great Schism was the formal break between the Eastern and Western Christian Church in 1054 due to a variety of reasons.

Question 17

Pope

Answer 17

The head of the Roman Catholic Church

Question 18

Partriarch

Answer 18

In Eastern Orthodox Church, the bishop of an important city

Question 19

Illiterate

Answer 19

A people who can not read or write

Question 20

Excommunicate

Answer 20

To exclude someone’s participation in church services

Question 21

Ottoman Turks

Answer 21

Took over the Byzantine Empire with cannons

Question 22

Roman Catholic Church

Answer 22

The Christian church headed by the Pope in Rome

Question 23

Eastern Orthodox Church

Answer 23

A Christian religion that developed out of early Christianity in the Byzantine Empire