Byzantine Empire Vocabulary

A large and wealthy city that was the imperial capital of the Byzantine empire and later the Ottoman empire, now known as Istanbul.

• Constantinople

• Alexandria

• Carthage

• Athens

Byzantine emperor in the 6th century A.D. who reconquered much of the territory previously ruled by Rome, initiated an ambitious building program, including Hagia Sofia, as well as a new legal code.

• Justinian

• Constantine

• Theodosius

• Heraclius

Laws compiled in early 500 A.D. by Emperor Justinian of Rome.

• Justinian's Code of Laws

• Hammurabi's Code

• Magna Carta

• Napoleonic Code

A ruler who has absolute power.

• Autocrat

• Democrat

• Bureaucrat

• Aristocrat

The wife of Justinian, she helped to improve the status of women in the Byzantine Empire and encouraged her husband to stay in Constantinople and fight the Nike Revolt.

• Theodora

• Irene

• Anna Comnena

• Pulcheria

Another name for the Middle Ages.

• medieval

• renaissance

• industrial

• modern

A Germanic tribe that conquered present-day France and neighboring lands in the 400s.

• Franks

• Vandals

• Saxons

• Visigoths

King of the Franks.

• Clovis

• Charlemagne

• Pepin the Short

• Louis XIV

Defeated the Muslims at the Battle of Tours.

• Charles Martel

• Charlemagne

• William the Conqueror

• Richard the Lionheart

(732 CE) European victory over Muslims. It halted Muslim movement into Western Europe.

• Battle of Tours

• Battle of Hastings

• Battle of Agincourt

• Battle of Lepanto