Unit 2: Byzantines In Class

The center of the Byzantine Empire was the city of ___________.

• Sparta

• Rome

• Constantinople

• Egyptians

The Byzantine Empire preserved the cultural heritage of what two places?

• Greece & Persia
• Rome & Persia
• Greece & Rome
• Russia & Rome

Identify this Byzantine Church that was commissioned by Justinian.

• Hagia Sophia
• National Cathedral
• Notre Dame
• Taj Mahal

The Byzantine Empire reached its greatest extent under:

• Justinian
• Constantine 
• Vladimir 
• Diocletian 

What is this a picture of? 

• The split of the Roman Empire
• Mesopotamia
• The split of the New Rome
• Roman Republic after the Punic Wars.

Which half of the Roman Empire did the Byzantine Empire emerge from?

• Western
• Eastern
• Northern
• Southern

Who was Justinian's wife?

• Alexandra
• Theodora
• Cleopatra
• Helena

The Patriarch was

• the head of the Roman Catholic Church.
• the head of the Eastern Orthodox Church.
• The head of the Roman Empire.
• the head of the Protestant church.

What is an icon?

• A new alphabet
• A holy image
• The leader of the Catholic church
• An orthodox leader

The Great Schism of 1054 CE was the division of which churches?

• Roman Catholic and Protestant
• Roman Catholic and Islam
• Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox
• Protestant and Eastern Orthodox