Byzantine Empire

Which of the following is true about the impact of the collapse of the Western Roman Empire on Western Europe?

• Western Europe's new Germanic kingdoms were able to thrive by maintaining old Roman roads and coinage.

  
  

• Western Europe entered a period known as the High Middle Ages, when trade and learning flourished and urban populations increased.

• Western Europe entered a period sometimes called the Dark Ages, when learning declined and urban populations decreased.

• Western European economies declined as the ancient economic system of barter collapsed in new Germanic kingdoms.

Which of the following statements reflect:

• Collapse of the Byzantine Empire

• Prosperity of the Roman Empire

In which of the following areas did the Byzantine Empire represent continuity with the old Roman Empire?

• art and architecture

• Pagan religious beliefs

• geographic center

• law and administration

Which of the following is the BEST example of the lasting impact of the Roman Empire?

• The Pope continues to serve as the leader of Rome.

• .Roman law remains the foundation of most European legal codes.

• Many buildings constructed during the height of the empire still stand.

• The Greek language is still spoken in many territories of Eastern Europe.

Which of the following conclusions can be drawn from the map of the Ottoman Empire seen ab?

• The Ottoman Empire destroyed what was left of Greek culture.

• The Ottomans, like the Byzantines, preserved Roman culture.

• The height of the Byzantine Empire lasted until the 1600s.

• The weakening of the Byzantine Empire left it vulnerable to conquest.

Which of the following contributed to the fall of the Byzantine Empire?

• The Great Schism weakened the Orthodox Church

• Disease spread and neighboring civilizations attacked Byzantine territory

• The Western Roman Empire conquered Constantinople

• Economic decline due to an inability to trade on the Mediterranean Sea

When Pope Leo IX and Patriarch Michael Cerularius excommunicated each other, what happened next

• Constantine moved the capital city to Constantinople.

• The Byzantine Empire transfers all religious texts from Latin to Greek.

• Justinian and Belisarius conquered a large portion of the old Roman Empire territory.

• The Great Schism

Which of the following is an economic impact of the Byzantine Empire?

• The connection of major trading cities in the East and West.

• The establishment of the Eastern Orthodox Church and Patriarch.

  
  

• The preservation of Greek and Roman culture in art and architecture.

• The invention of machines capable of mass-producing textiles and print materials.

We, Constantinus and Licinius the Emperors, having met in concord at Milan and having set in order everything which pertains to the common good and public security, are of the opinion that among the various things which we perceived would profit men, or which should be set in order first, was to found the cultivation of religion; we should therefore give both to Christians and to all others free facility to follow the religion which each may desire, so that by this means whatever divinity is enthroned in heaven may be gracious and favourable to us and to all who have been placed under our authority. 

—from the Edict of Milan, enacted A.D. 313

Based on the excerpt above, which of the following was a consequence of Constantine the Great’s Edict of Milan? 

• Christians became widely persecuted across the Roman Empire.

• The Byzantine Empire adopted and preserved many aspects of Greek culture.

• Christianity eventually became the official religion of the Roman Empire.

Which of the following best describes the Byzantine territory at the height of the empire?

• The empire controlled territories that were isolated with no access to travel or trade.

• The empire was land-locked and could not facilitate travel by water.

• The empire was almost entirely located in Eastern Europe.

• The empire consisted of territories on multiple continents and in multiple regions.