The Byzantine Empire and Early Christianity

The name for the eastern Roman Empire, located at the crossroads of Europe and Asia; it lasted from about 500 to 1453 C.E.

• The Roman Empire
• The Byzantine Empire
• The Ottoman Empire
• The European Empire

Constantinople was a crossroads for _______

• war

• religion

• trade

Who were the Blues and the Greens?

• fans of opposing chariot teams

• vassals of opposing nobles

• members of different churches

• merchants in different trade guilds

What was Justinian’s Code?

• an improved library system

• a new form of writing

• a school of philosophy

• an organized set of laws

Belief in only one god

• monotheism

• polytheism

• Christianity

• political

Arguably one of the greatest Byzantine emperors. Ruled from 527 C.E.- 565 C.E.

• Theodora

• Justin

• Justinian

• Belisarius

Justinian was able to reconquer lands once held by the Western Roman Empire?

• True

• False

Roman Emperor _______________ made Christianity the main religion of the Roman Empire.

• Diocletian

• Galerius

• Constantine

• Augustus

What geographical feature made Constantinople easy to defend?

• It was surrounded by desert.

• It was on a mountaintop.

• It was on a peninsula.

• It sat on a plateau.

Why was Constantinople a great site for a capital?

• The site was easy to defend as a peninsula. 
• It was a crossroads of east and west trade routes. 
• It was a walled city. 
• All of the above.