Chapter 2 Byzantine 2020 (Barca)

The first great Byzantine emperor was ____________

Which of the following was not one of the foreign invaders trying to attack Constantinople?

__________, Justinian’s wife, had a father who was a bear trainer in the circus.

The Eastern Orthodox Church was led by the Pope, and the Roman Catholic Church was led by the Byzantine emperor

Emperor _________ gained control of the Roman Empire and moved the capital of his government to the east.

The bishops of Rome, Jerusalem, Alexandria, Antioch, and Constantinople were called patriarchs.

approved a set of beliefs

Someone sent to another country by a church, to spread its faith.

Byzantine culture spread to other places through trade merchants, scholars, visitors, and missionaries.

In the Eastern Orthodox Church, priests could marry, but in the Roman Catholic Church, Priests could not marry.

The bishop of Rome felt justified taking the title of pope because of apostolic succession

By putting out the Nika Rebellion Justinian gained, __________, or unlimited authority,

When emperor Constantine took control of the Roman empire, he moved the capital of Rome to the city of:

The first great byzantine emperor was

Before he became a Christian, Emperor Constantine was a pagan.

Constantine named his new capital

Following a traditional , or established ,set of belief

The Eastern Roman Empire lasted for a thousand years after the fall of the Western Roman Empire

Justinian and Theodora were an unusual royal couple because he was from a family of circus performers.

Justinian's new legal system was known as

A holy image

Thick walls and a _______________, or trench filled with water, protected Constantinople from attack by land.

People in the Eastern Orthodox that smashed icons were known as

The Byzantine empire reached its largest size under

The bishop of Rome claimed authority over Christians everywhere. He took the title of _________, which meant father

Constantinople fell to the Turks in 1453.

The Eastern Roman Empire wasn’t referred to as the Byzantine Empire until the renaissance period.

Two forms of art that were typical of the Byzantine civilization included:

Universal, or connected with all people.

In 1054, the Christian Church split into two traditions in an event called:

After Constantine’s death, the Roman Empire split into an Eastern Roman Empire and a Western Roman Empire.

Byzantine art was usually flat, formal, and religious.

One of the new buildings, a church called the _________ is often considered one of the world’s most beautiful churches

Constantine began life as a ______________, or someone who believes in more than one god.

A design made with colored stones and small pieces of glass.

The bishops of Rome, Jerusalem, Alexandria, Antioch, and Constantinople were known as

Today, Constantinople is known as Istanbul, Turkey.

Libraries in Byzantine cities copied and preserved ________________, or handwritten documents, from Greece and Rome

Why did Christian bishops adopt the Nicene Creed?

The location Constantine chose for his new capital made for an ideal trading center because of

A person who changes their religion is called a

The most famous example of Byzantine architecture is the Hagia Sophia.

Constantinople means “city of Byzantium.”