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Byzantine empire
studying for the Byzantine empire and Christianity quiz
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| List two of the major reasons that Constantinople thrived as the capital | On a peninsula had harbors and on mediteranean sea |
| How did Theodora influence Justinian | Gave suggestions for government officials and gave strength during the NIKA rebellion |
| What are the precepts of Justinians code | Live honestly, injure no one, and give every man his due |
| What are the three origins of law | precepts of nature, the laws of the nations, and the civil law of rome |
| What city did Constantinople used to be and why did it have geography | Byzantium, good harbor. easily protected. trade crossroad for Asia, Africa and Europe |
| What did Justinian do | lived form 527-565. Conquered former Roman territories, held absolute power and made Justinians code. |
| Codification | changing of laws for Justinians code |
| Digest | summaries from Rome's greatest thinkers on law |
| Institute | textbook for law students |
| Novellae | new laws made in 534 |
| What did Theodora do | Poor actress who became the empress, met with officials, and protected the poor, children, and women rights |
| What happened in the golden age | fortified Constantinople, Public works, Aqueducts, Baths, Courts, Schools, Hospitals, and the Hagia Sophia |
| Why did the great Schism happen | difference of leaders, location, language, lifestyle of priests, and the use of Icons |
| What were the two churches called | Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox |
| Icons | religious images to pray to banned by emperor Leo |
| Byzantine decline | Barbarians in the north, Muslims in the south, and th Crusades to take back Holy lands |
| Constantinople falling | sacked by 4rth crusade, Ottoman empire sieged the city and renamed it Istanbul |
| Constantinople | It was the capital of the Byzantine empire |
| Hagia Sophia | It was a great Christian Cathedral taken over by the Muslims who added things to it |
| The Great Schism | When the Pope and the emperor of the Byzantine empire made two different Christian churches |
| Pope | He was the religious leader of the Roman Catholic church. |
| Literate | It means to read and right |
| Matriarch | A woman who held authority and great power |
| Justinian | Justinian was the Byzantine emporer from 527-565, and created Justinians code |
| Byzantium | was the city that became Constantinople |
| Eastern Orthodox church | It was the church that translated the bible to greek and started in the Byzantine empire. |
| Patriarch | Male leader of a group |
| Hippodrome | where citizens gave their complaints and the green and blues played leading to the NIKA rebellion |
| Theodora | The most powerful empress in Byzantine history and the wife of Justinian |
| Peninsula | and area mostly surrounded by water but still connects to land. |
| Vernacular | the langauge spoken by the common people in an area |
| Latin | Language that the Romans used for their priests to read th bible in |
| Mosaic | a type of artwork using glass, ivory, or stone, and grout to hold them together |
| Justinians code | Legal code made by Justinian that most new countries base their laws after |
| Roman Catholic chruch | It was the church that the pope lead and is used throughout most of Europe today |
| Bible | It is the book that all Christian religions base themselves on |
| The NIKA rebellion | The NIKA rebellion was based around the Blues and Greens and eventually they got smashed down by Justinian |
| Justinians early life | was the son of a poor farmer and was brought to the palace and assumed the throne when the emperor died. |
| Blues and Greens | They fought each other over politics and the games and broke into riots and release inmates. |
| Theodaoras plan | told Justinian to stay and he crushed the rebellion |
| zealots | group of Jews that held down the fort Masada as they were sieged by the Romans for two years |
| Jesus teachings | the Beatitudes and about love and hope and he spoke in parables, stories to explain ideas. |
| Jews and Jesus | Some Jews beleived that Jesus was the Messiah but others thought that he was deceiving them. |
| Jesus dead | Went to last supper, got betrayed, hung from a cross, rose from the dead and Mary Magdalene told people. |
| Mary Magdalene | followed Jesus around while he taught and was loyal to him, even after death. |
| Paul | wrote letters to churches and made journeys and had a big conversion story |
| Peter | Peter was an apostle and then became the first pope and leader of the church. |
| Basic Christian beliefs | There is one god, you could gain salvation and be resurrected and believed in the trinity |
| Salvation | you can be forgiven, from even the most hideous sins |
| The trinity | the belief in the the father, the son, and the holy ghost. |
| apostle | Early CHristian leaders who spread the message of Jesus |
| ressurection | Rising from the dead |
| Jesus Christ | a Jew by birth who led the rise of CHristianity |
| Jews | an ethnicity about the culture of Jews |
| Disciple | agroup of 12 close followers to Jesus |
| Messiah | Person who will save Israel from destruction |
| Jerusalem | Holy city for Jews and Christians |
| Judaism | first monotheistic religion on the old testament |
| Old Testament | the first half of the bible that the Jews believed was the full bible |
| Christianities appeal | it appealed because it gave hope and joy |
| Constantine's support | It gave them freedom to practice religion and they could work in the government |
| Gospels | four written accounts of Jesus' foolowers Mathew, Mark, Luke, and John. |
| Bible | Old testament and New testament(Paul's writings and the gospels) |
| Catacomb | underground cemetery mad by the Romans |
| Clergy | Church officials |
| Gospel | "good news" the four accounts of Mathew, Mark, Luke , and John |
| Martyr | Someone willing to die for their beliefs |
| Laity | regular church member |
| primary source | account or speech from somone who was at the scene |
| Hierarchy | orginization with different levels of authority |
| doctrine | Official church teachings |
| secondary source | a document or speech based off of someone elses eye witness to a scene |
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