Compare and Contrast Empires

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Why did the Eastern Roman Empire survive while the Western did not?

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Stronger economy and political system in the East; the West was in decline.

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Public building in Constantinople created by Justinian to spread Byzantine Christianity.

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Hagia Sophia

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Eastern Empire adopted which language instead of Latin?

Back

Greek

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Roman Army composition around the Empire's fall?

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Members of unemployed city mobs and foreign countries paid for with taxes.

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After Julius Caesar's death and the subsequent civil war, what happened to Roman Law?

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it wasn't as respected

Front

Visigoths, Angles, and Saxons attacked Rome, known as ___

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barbarians

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One internal weakness of Rome's government was spending too much on military.

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spending too much on military to fund other necessary things

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One factor in Rome's fall was its ___, making management difficult.

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physical size

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Difference between Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches.

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Roman Catholics believed the pope had ultimate authority; Orthodox churches gave authority to the emperor.

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Byzantium was renamed after which Roman emperor who built high walls and copied Roman architecture?

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Constantine