6th Grade Ancient History
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| Nomadic peoples who did not speak Latin or Greek and were considered primitive and crude by the Romans | Barbarians
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| Former circus performer who became wife of Justinian and helped him have the courage to stay and fight the rioters | Theodora
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| The Church of Holy Wisdom, the most important and most beautiful church in the empire | Hagia Sophia
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| Hatred of sacred pitures and statues | Iconoclasm
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| "The Body of Civil Law," a new, much shorter law code written by Tribonia | Corpus Juris Civilis
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| The Greens and the Blues | Sports clus in Constantinople
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| Holy war fought by Muslims in defense of their faith | Jihad
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| Preserved the Byzantine Empire by reforming the army and making the roads safe for commerce | Heraclius
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| Caused by angry Blues and Greens | Nika Riots
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| Pictures made of small stones or pieces of glass set in mortar | Mosaics
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| Why did the Blues and the Greens riot? | They did not like high taxes
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| What was the hippodrome? | A large open-air stadium
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| What is caesaropapism? | A person's claiming to have authority over both the state and church
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| What was the black death? | A horrible disease, also called the bubonic plague, that killed thousands of people in medieval Europe
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| What are icons? | Sacred pictures of Jesus and the saints
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| Two missionaries, Cyril and Methodius, translated the Bible into Slavic, spreading he gospel through Eastern Europe | True
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| Constantine built a new city where the old village of Byzantium had been and called it Istanbul | False
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| Mercenaries were foreigners who were hired by the Byzantine Government and who fought for pay | True
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| Caliphs led the Muslims after Muhammad's death | True
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| The Meccans liked the new religion brought by Muhammad because it had only one god | False
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| Allah's holy book | Koran
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| The nationality of Muhammad | Arab
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| The religion invented by Muhammad | Islam
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| Book of laws that the Jews lived by | Torah
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| Believers of Muhammad's religion | Muslims
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