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Byzantine Empire
Chapter 13 Study Guide; The Commonwealth of Byzantium
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The only classical society to survive | Byzantine Empire |
| The official language of the Byzantine Empire was changed from Latin to this language | Greek |
| The roman empire was split into two parts by this emperor. | Diocletian |
| Byzantion was renamed by this emperor, after himself | Constantine |
| This man was the most important early Byzantine emperor | Justinian |
| Constantinople was sacked in the year 1204 by this group | Christian Crusaders |
| In 1054, the year of the Catholic Church’s Great Schism, the Pope in Rome and the Patriarch of Constantinople did this | Mutually excommunicating each other |
| The Hagia Sophia, a significant piece of Byzantine architecture, was originally built under Justinian for this use | Church/place of Christian worship |
| St. Augustine made Christian thought more appealing to educated classes by harmonizing it with this philosophy | Platonic/Greco-Roman |
| Christian Saints Methodius and Cyril developed this written alphabetic system | Cyrillic |
| Moscow came to be thought of as the third incarnation of this city during the 1500s | Rome |
| This event was the first of two assemblies of church patriarchs and bishops in which the participants concluded that Jesus was both fully human and fully God | Council of Nicea |
| Theodora, the influential wife of Emperor Justinian, made her living as this before her marriage | A striptease artist |
| The Byzantine legal policy of Iconoclasm was brought into existence by this emperor in the year 726 | Leo III |
| Under the theme system, land was offered to long serving soldiers which largely came from the plebeian class, accomplishing this | Strengthening of the free peasant class |
| In 1453, the city of Constantinople fell to this group | Ottoman Turks |
| The standard currency of the Mediterranean basin from 6th century to 12th century was this | The bezant |
| Justinian’s most important political achievement was his codification of Roman law, referred to as this | Justinian’s Code |
| The battle of Manzikert, fought in 1071 between the Byzantines and this people, resulted in a demoralizing defeat of the Byzantine empire | Muslim Saljuqs |
| Chariot racing which occurred in the Hippodrome resulted in these two factions, who mounted uprisings in the street and rebelled against high taxes | Greens & Blues |
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