Chapter 6 The Byzantine Empire

Parts of North Africa, Italy, and southeastern Spain have this in commone

Justinian I won them back for the empire (byzantine)

How did the Byzantine Empire develop and form its own distinctive church?

Over centuries, cultural, political, and religious differences brought the two parts of the old Roman Empire into conflict.

A blank gave Constantinople the biggest advantage for trade

good location

In the Middles Ages, one way in which the Divine Liturgy was different from the Roman Catholic mass was

it could be in the local language

Emperor Leo III established a policy of iconoclasm because

people were wrongly worshiping the icons as if they were divine

Justinian built Hagia Sophia as a

church

The Blue and the Greens were

fans of opposing teams

blank in power structure of the Byzantine Empire in religious matters

The emperor had power over the patriarch

This sentence best describes the lives of the jobless in Constantinople

They worked for exchange for bread from the emperor

blank which led Justinian I to start a major public works program

violent riots destroyed the city

For about how long did the Roman Empire have capitals or government operations in both the East and the West?

146 years (300 CE - 446 CE)

By the time Charlemagne became Holy Roman emperor, how many years had passed without a Roman emperor in the west?

324 years (476 CE - 800 CE

Which event on the timeline happened during the time that the Byzantine Empire did not allow icons?

800 Charlemagne was crowned Holy Roman emperor

After the pope and patriarch excommunicated members of each other's clergy in 1054

the Orthodox Church and Catholic Churches completely split

Rule of the Roman Empire was divided between two emperors until

the fall of Rome

When the pope crowned Charlemagne as Holy Roman emperor, the Byzantines were angry because they felt that

their empress should rule the remains of the Roman Empire

The Eastern Orthodox missionary Saint Cyril is remembered for creating the

Cyrillic Alphabet

The best sub-headings for two columns in the chart below are

Western and Eastern

The Justinian's code was

an organized set of laws

Hippo means "horse" blank took place in the Hippodrome

chariot races