Byzantium Empire Word Scramble
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| Question | Answer |
| What geographical feature made Constantinople highly defensible? | The Seven Hills |
| Why was Byzantine a good place for trade? | Because it was close to the water and had control over the Bosporus strait |
| Why did the Greeks build Byzantine where they did? | Because they wanted control over the Bosporus strait |
| What 'other rule' did Constantine recognize when building Constantinople? | Jesus Christ |
| What problem did Constantinople face that limited the size of the population? | Water supply |
| What did Constantinople build to bring more water to its people? | Aqueducts |
| Why do barbarians like the HUns go after constantinople? | to have control over the Bosporus strait, and because of Constantinople's highly deafened territory |
| What protected Constantinople from many invaders like the Huns? | The walls |
| What did Constantinoples' people build to protect them from attack by water? | Iron Chain |
| What was the Hippodrome? | Center of Constantinople's political life |
| What was the Nika Rebellion? | gathered people in the Hippodrome revolted against Justinian |
| Who ruled under the Byzantine's golden age? | Justinian |
| Who was Justinian's wife? | Theodora |
| What did Justinian build to prove the greatness of the empire? | THe Hagia Sophia (holy wisdom) |
| Justinian set up a panel of legal experts to do what? | go through Roman laws and put together a new code, Justinian's Code |
| What was the code Justinian was responsible for called? | Justinian's Code |
| What was the plague that killed millions of people along with Justinian? | The Bubonic plague |
| The Bubonic plague killed off many of Byzantine's citizens, leave it in what condition? | weak |
| Byzantine was constantly being attacked by who? | foreign invaders like the Turks |
| Byzantine fell in what year, and to who? | 1453 to the Ottoman Turks |
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