Ch 7 - The Great Schism

___ was the city considered the first center of Christianity.

• Jerusalem

• Rome

• Constantinople

• Byzantium

____ was renamed Constantinople.

• Rome

• Antioch

• Byzantium

• Damascus

There were 4 important Bishops in the early Church; this pattern mimics the 4 ____.

• tetrarchs

• choirs of angels

• tribes of Israel

• tribunes of Rome

___ was the oldest, richest, and most cultured city in the entire Roman empire.

• Byzantium

• Rome

• Jerusalem

• Antioch

Constantine moved the Emperor's seat because

• Byzantium was safe behind high walls

• he wanted to get away from the supervision of the Pope

• Rome was in turmoil over the Arian controversy but the East was not

• he was born Greek

Not only is Byzantium at a crossroads for travelers, but it also

• was an important port city

• was a gathering place for learned men

• had a varied marketplace with rare goods

• all of these

Byzantium was the center of the ___ empire long before Rome was an empire.

• Persian

• Ottoman

• Greek

• Turkish

___was converted into a mosque by the Ottoman Turks who invaded in 1453.

• the Dome of the Rock

• the Temple of Artemis

• the Parthenon

• Hagia Sophia

The first language of the Catholic Church and the first language of the New Testament was ___.

• Latin

• Greek

• Aramaic

• Hebrew

As the Roman Empire falls, ____ gathers up land and refugees.

• the Carolingian Empire

• Alexandria

• Spain

• the Byzantine Empire