Byzantine Empire and Christianity

How did the Byzantine Empire preserve Christianity?

• The Byzantine Empire founded Christian beliefs.

• Exposed through trade, Western Europe was greatly influenced as well by Byzantine arts and architecture.

• Byzantium blended Islamic beliefs and Greek and Roman ideas, technologies, and law into its own culture.

• Byzantine opened trade between Western Europe and the Middle East.

How did the Byzantine Empire preserve learning?

• Byzantine architecture was admired from a distance but not replicated.

• The Byzantine Renaissance was a major catalyst for the Italian Renaissance.

• Byzantine culture kept secluded and refrained from influencing Egypt or Arabia.

• Byzantine art was replaced with academic studies during this period.

How are the Roman and Byzantine Empires related? Select one:

• The Byzantine Empire is the Western Roman Empire after the fall of the Eastern Roman Empire.

• The Roman Empire came into existence after the Byzantine Empire lasted nearly 1,000 years.

• The Roman Empire was founded by emigrants from the Byzantine Empire.

• The Byzantine Empire is the Eastern Roman Empire after the fall of the Western Roman Empire.

What is the theme system? Select one:

• a system of mandatory conscription based on age and location

• a military weapon similar to the modern flamethrower

• a governing system where the emperor focuses on one area of improvement (called a theme) at a time

• a system similar to the Europeans feudal system, where the government traded land for loyal soldiers

Why did the Byzantine Empire struggle against Arab invasions? Select one:

• The Arabs fought fiercely in a holy war for Islam.

• The Arabs used surprise attacks rather than sieges.

• The Byzantines did not have Greek fire like the Arabs.

• The Byzantines had a similar culture as the Arabs.

Which is not a consequence of Justinian's unification of the legal code?

• It left room for interpretation, so laws were enforced differently in different parts of the byzantine empire.

• It was the first attempt to unify the Roman empire under a single set of laws.

• It significantly increased the ease of governing a geographically dispersed empire.

• It served as the basis for the Catholic Church's canon law.

How did the Byzantine Empire protect Europe? Select one:

• It provided food to villages along their borders during times of famine.

• It served as a buffer, isolating Europe from its eastern enemies.

• Its great navies consistently defeated enemies.

• It provided a governmental structure for other empires to use as a model.