Unit 2 Review: Byzantine Empire

What is the name of the green empire?

• Western Roman Empire

• Eastern Roman Empire

What is the name of the purple Empire?

• Western Roman Empire

• Eastern Roman Empire

What is the capital of the Western Roman Empire?

• Rome

• Constantinople

What is the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire?

• Rome

• Constantinople

Which empire continued as the Byzantine Empire?

• Western Roman Empire

• British Empire

• Ottoman Empire

• Eastern Roman Empire

Which cultural characteristics spread to the lands around the Mediterranean Sea because of the expansion of the Roman Empire? (Choose 2 options)

• the Latin language

• 
  the philosophy of Confucianism

• 
  the Roman code of laws

• the Greek language

Emperor Diocletian split the Roman Empire into two halves because

• It had grown to be very large

• the cultures of the East and West were different

Unlike the Western Roman Empire, the Byzantine Empire was

• a place with poor cities

• a Christian state

The Byzantine Empire was founded

• On the authority of the Christian Church

• By the Visogoths

What were two political achievements of Justinian? (Choose 2)

• expanded the territory of the Byzantine Empire

• women could divorce their husbands

• established the Code of Justinian

• ordered a famous Greek Orthodox basilica to be rebuilt