Byzantium Quiz

As time passed, the Byzantine Empire became

• a Jewish state

• Egypt

• less German and more Russian

• less Roman and more Greek

The Hagia Sophia is

• a picture made up of small pieces of tile, glass, or colored stone

• a Roman god of the Underworld

• a famous Byzantine cathedral, said to be the most beautiful in the world

• a human-made channel built to carry water

This emperor moved the capital from Rome to Constantinople

• Hadrian

• Augustus

• Constantine

• Tiberius

The place in which Greeks, Egyptians, Syrians and Slavs lived was

• Britain

• Ireland

• Portugal

• The Byzantine Empire

The empress Theodora helped

• the theater prosper (become successful)

• destroy the Byzantine Empire

• women gain more rights

• Rome become a capital

Most Byzantine women were

• empresses

• lawyers

• slaves

• homemakers

Trade really helped this empire thrive.

• The Byzantine Empire

• The Caspian Empire

• The Greek Empire

• The Columbus Empire

The schism in Christianity created this new Christian religion in Byzantium.

• The Roman Catholic Church

• Judaism

• The Eastern Orthodox Church

• Islam

Romans took these gods and goddesses and worshiped them after changing their names.

• Spanish

• Greek

• British

• American

After being built, Constantinople was known as

• "New Athens"

• "New Egypt"

• "New Byzantium"

• "New Rome"