7th grade - Rome & Byzantium Review Lesson

​The Splitting of the Roman Empire

By Chip Krolik

Multiple Choice

Eastern Orthodox patriarchs worked closely with Byzantine emperors.

• True

• False

• Sometimes

Multiple Choice

Find Rome and Constantinople on the map. Use evidence from the map to describe why Constantine moved the Roman capital from Rome to Constantinople.

• Constantinople was better located for trade and defense than Rome.

• Rome was closer to the eastern provinces than Constantinople.

• Constantinople had fewer natural resources than Rome.

• Rome was surrounded by more water than Constantinople.

Multiple Choice

Moving the Roman capital affected the governance of the empire by:

• making it easier to govern the eastern provinces

• weakening the power of the emperor

• causing the empire to expand rapidly

• reducing trade with other regions

Multiple Choice

Before Christianity became the official religion of Rome, leaders of the Roman Empire...

• ignored Christians.
• made most Christians citizens.
• persecuted Christians.
• enslaved Christians

Multiple Choice

What was the cause of the fall of the Roman Empire?

• A single catastrophic event

• Invasion by barbarian tribes

• Economic troubles and overreliance on slave labor

• Both B and C are correct

Multiple Choice

What is the Byzantine Empire?

• The Byzantine Empire was the Eastern Roman Empire that lasted from the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 AD until the fall of Constantinople in 1453.
• A modern-day country in the Middle East
• A medieval kingdom in Western Europe
• An ancient civilization in Africa

Match

Match the following emperors:

• First Emperor to convert to Christianity

• Emperor who was the last to persecute the Christians

• Rome's first emperor. He was ruling when Jesus was born

• First emperor to persecute the Christians

• "Little Nero" - actively sought out the Christians

Constantine

Diocletian

Augustus

Nero

Domitian

• Constantine

• Diocletian

• Augustus

• Nero

• Domitian

Multiple Choice

The Christian religion that developed out of early Christianity in the Byzantine Empire?

• Eastern Orthodox Church

• The Holy Roman Empire

• Catholicism

• Protestantism

Multiple Choice

What is a patriarch in Eastern Orthodoxy?

• A layperson with no religious authority.
• A leader of a secular government.
• A bishop with authority over all churches worldwide.
• A monk who has renounced all church positions.
• A senior bishop with authority over a specific region or church.

Multiple Choice

The Great Schism of 1054 refers to...

• The earthquake of 1054

• When dozens of people saw ghosts

• The split in the christian church

• When Diocletian made the Eastern Roman Empire

• none of these

Multiple Choice

Why did Emperor Diocletian split the Roman Empire into the East and West?

• To improve administrative efficiency and address governance challenges.
• To create a more powerful military force.
• To establish a new religion in the empire.
• To increase trade with neighboring countries.
• None of these are correct

Match

Match the following types of art

Eastern Christian Icon

Christian mosaic

Roman fresco

• Eastern Christian Icon

• Christian mosaic

• Roman fresco

Multiple Choice

What is one major difference between Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy

• The use of Latin in Roman Catholicism versus Greek in Eastern Orthodoxy.
• The role of the Pope as the supreme authority in Roman Catholicism versus the conciliar governance in Eastern Orthodoxy.
• The belief in purgatory in Roman Catholicism versus its rejection in Eastern Orthodoxy.
• The emphasis on the Virgin Mary in Roman Catholicism versus a lesser focus in Eastern Orthodoxy.

Multiple Select

Check all of the reasons why Christianity spread throughout the Roman Empire.

• Most people in the empire could understand Latin or Greek, the language of the Apostles.

• The Romans had a network of roads to connect the entire empire.

• The apostles sailed across the Atlantic to found new churches in America.

• Christianity started during the Pax Romana when travel around the empire was safe.

• Constantine made it illegal NOT to worship Jesus

Multiple Choice

What is the Pax Romana?

• A religious movement in ancient Rome.
• A military campaign led by Julius Caesar.
• A period of peace and stability in the Roman Empire lasting from 27 BC to AD 180.
• A series of architectural projects in the Roman Empire.

Multiple Choice

How did Paul impact the development of Christianity in the Roman Empire?

• He led the campaign to make Christmas a national holiday throughout the Roman Empire

• He legalized the religion and stopped the persecution of Christians in the coliseum

• He preached that the religion should accept non-Jewish converts into it

• He built a huge cathedral that influenced other societies

Multiple Choice

Which ruler underwent a conversion to Christianity and ended the persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire?

• Julius Caesar

• Constantine

• Augustus

• Alexander the Great

Multiple Choice

Which characteristic was shared by Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic Christians?

• Latin as the main language
• faith that Jesus acted to redeem mankind
• belief that a political leader should head the church
• belief that the Pope is the head of the church

Open Ended

What is this church (now a mosque) called?

Poll

After this review, I feel --- about the Splitting of the Roman Empire and the Christian Church

• very confident

• confident

• so-so; iffy

• lost! I don't know anything

• other: my thoughts & feelings are not listed here