Byzantine and Islamic Empires

What Byzantine emperor codified Roman law to create The Body of Civil Law?

• Hammurabi

• Caesar

• Justinian

• Muhammad

What groups began threatening the Eastern Roman Empire causing it to become the Byzantine Empire?

• Germanic and Islamic

• Ottoman and Roman

• Franks and Ostrogoths

• Mongols and Chinese

What church/mosque in the Byzantine Empire is its greatest architectural achievement?

• Hagia Sophia

• Notre Dame

• Palace of Muhammad

• The Parthenon

In the Byzantine Empire, the head of the church was known as the

• bishop

• pope

• caliph

• patriarch

Constantinople was a center of ______ between the East and West

• religion

• trade

• war

• government

The religious and political successor to Muhammad is known as the

• patriarch

• caliph

• Quran

• pope

The Arab Empire allowed people to practice their own religion, but they had to

• pay a special tax

• serve in the military

• live outside the city

• leave the empire

The Umayyad caliphates moved the capital of the Arab Empire to

• Cairo, Egypt

• Rome, Italy

• Damascus, Syria

• Constantinople

At what battle did Frankish forces prevent the spread of Islam into Europe?

• Battle of Hastings

• Battle of Tours

• Battle of Marathon

• Battle of Paris

True or False: The Arabs attempted to attack Constantinople but were defeated by the Byzantines.

• true

• false