Byzantine Empire

The division of the Roman Empire into eastern and western halves was a crucial step in the formation of the _____.

• Ottoman Empire

• Byzantine Empire

• Persian Empire

• Catholic Empire

Which statement correctly describes the Byzantine Empire?

• Which statement correctly describes the Byzantine Empire?

• It helped spread Islam throughout Europe.

• It helped spread Islam throughout Europe.

• It began as part of the Roman Empire.

Which of the following religions was the official faith of the Byzantine Empire?

• Christianity

• Judaism

• Islam

• Islam

_____ helped to socially and politically unify the early Byzantine Empire by tolerating and even promoting Christianity.

• Justinian I

• Diocletian

• Constantine I

• Basil II

In 313 CE, Constantine the Great issued the Edict of Milan. What effect did this law have?

• It promoted the spread of Christianity across the Roman Empire by allowing people to worship freely.

• It restricted the spread of Christianity across the Roman Empire by encouraging persecution of religious minorities.

• It promoted the spread of Christianity by uniting the eastern and western parts of the Roman Empire.

• It restricted the spread of Christianity by dividing Christians into followers of Roman Catholicism and followers of Eastern Orthodoxy.

Constantine I's _____ ended the policy of _____ Christians in the Roman Empire.

• defeat; enslaving

• victory; taxing

• death; educating

• conversion; persecuting

Why do historians consider Constantine I the founder of the Byzantine Empire?

• He converted to Eastern Orthodoxy, unifying the early Byzantine Empire, which until then had been culturally and ethnically fractured.

• He allowed freedom of religion, which motivated the Orthodox Eastern Roman Empire to break away from the Catholic Western Roman Empire.

• He switched loyalty from the Western Roman Empire to the Eastern Roman Empire, which he renamed in honor of his birth city, Byzantium.

• He moved the capital of the Roman Empire from Rome to Byzantium, which would be the capital of the Byzantine Empire for more than 1,000 years.

What can you conclude from the fact that Constantine I moved the capital of the Roman Empire from Rome to Byzantium?

• He believed Western Roman power was on the decline, while Eastern Roman power was on the rise.

• He believed Eastern Roman power was on the decline, while Western Roman power was on the rise.

Constantine I moved the capital of the Roman Empire from Rome to Byzantium because he:

• was trying to escape the Justinian Plague and the civil wars caused by the East-West Schism.

• wanted to re-create the glory of Rome in a more geographically strategic location.

Which of the following statements would a Byzantine opponent of iconoclasm most support?

• Christian images should be destroyed, as they are idols.

• Praying to images of Jesus helps Christians feel closer to their faith.