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Fusion Review Byzantine Russia
A. The Byzantine Empire
B. Emperor Justinian
C. Split in Christendom
D. Constantinople
E. Cyril and Methodius
F. Cyrillic Alphabet
G. Kiev
H. Vladimir
I. Tsar
J. The Hagia Sophia
World History/Napp
It was developed by Byzantine missionaries
for the Russian language. It was created to
write the Bible in Russian. As Christianity
has a sacred text, writing is important. ____
They were Byzantine monks. They brought
the Orthodox Christian faith to Russia.
Russia had traded with the Byzantine
Empire and now practiced its religion. ___ _
He was the most significant emperor of the
Byzantine Empire. He ordered a
codification of Roman law and construction
of the magnificent church, the Hagia
Sophia. He also expanded the empire. _____
It is a city located on the Dnieper River. It
was an early capital of Russia. From it, the
Vikings could sail to Constantinople. They
could trade with distant lands. _______
He considered conversion to Christianity.
He sent out teams to observe the religions of
the times. Three of the teams returned with
lukewarm accounts of Islam, Judaism, and
Western Christianity. But the team from
Byzantium told a different story. He
converted to Byzantine Christianity and
made his subjects convert too. ______
It occurred due to theological differences
between the Roman Catholic Church and
the Eastern Orthodox Church. The pope
did not recognize the patriarch and vice
versa and there were differences in beliefs
and rituals. _______
It was formerly the Eastern Roman Empire.
It survived the fall of Rome and was located
at a crossroads of trade. It preserved Greek
and Roman learning and codified Roman
law. Its religion was Orthodox Christianity.
It was the title of Russian emperors. It
came from the word “Caesar”. ______
It was the capital of the Byzantine Empire.
It had a great location for trade and was
highly defensible. It was named for a
Roman Emperor but today it is known as
Istanbul as the Ottomans conquered it. ____
It was a magnificent Byzantine Church
ordered built by Justinian. ______
Throughout most of its history the capital of
the Byzantine Empire was
1. Rome.
2. Constantinople.
3. Kiev.
4. Istanbul.
Emperor Justinian is best remembered for
his
1. plan to destroy Constantinople in
order to rebuild it.
2. codification of Roman law, known as
Body of the Civil Law.
3. complete reconstitution of the classical
Roman empire.
4. decisive victory over the Muslims.
The people who finally brought down the
Byzantine empire were
1. crusaders of Western Europe.
2. Muslim Saljuqs.
3. Ottoman Turks.
4. Russians and Bulgars.
The significance of the Byzantine Empire
included all of the following except
1. The empire’s ability to survive for
almost a thousand years.
2. The ability of the empire to spread its
cultural and political influence to the
Balkans and southern Russia.
3. The empire’s conquest of the Ottoman
Empire and its inclusion of all the Middle
East.
4. The importance of the empire’s capital
at Constantinople as a major urban center.
Cyril and Methodius were responsible for
what accomplishment?
1. The ending of the iconoclastic
controversy
2. The creation of a written script for the
Slavic language
3. The conversion of Poland and
Czechoslovakia to Roman Catholicism
4. The conversion of Poland and
Czechoslovakia to Orthodox Christianity
The early Russian civilization adopted the
Eastern Orthodox religion, the Cyrillic
alphabet, and different styles of art and
architecture through contact with
1. traders from China
2. conquering Mongol invaders
3. Vikings from northern Europe
4. missionaries from the Byzantine
Empire
From the reign of Justinian, the official
language of the eastern empire was
1. Arabic.
2. Greek.
3. Persian.
4. Latin.
Which of the following represents one of
Justinian’s positive accomplishments?
1. The banning of entertainment within
the Byzantine Empire
2. The rebuilding of Rome
3. Systematizing of the Roman legal
code
4. The conquest of Gaul
Images of religious objects venerated as part An accomplishment of the Byzantine
of the religious practices of the Orthodox
Empire was that it
Church were called
1. Adopted Confucianism
1. Iconoclasm.
2. Preserved Greek and Roman learning
2. Icons.
3. Conquered the Ottoman Empire
3. Mosaics.
4. Encouraged literacy in Arabic
4. Filoque
“Emperor Constantine moved the capital of the Roman Empire from Rome to a new city
called Constantinople. Constantine’s city became the capital of the Byzantine Empire.
By the A.D. 500s, Constantinople was thriving and had become one of the world’s great
cities. One reason for Constantinople’s success was its location. It lay on the waterways
between the Black Sea and the Aegean Sea. Its harbors offered a safe shelter for fishing
boats, trading ships, and warships. Constantinople also sat at the crossroads of trade
routes between Europe and Asia. The trade that passed through made the city extremely
wealthy.
Constantinople had a secure land location. Lying on a peninsula, Constantinople was
easily defended. Seas protected it on three sides, and on the fourth side, a huge wall
guarded the city. Later a huge chain was even strung across the city’s north harbor for
greater protection. Invaders could not easily take Constantinople.
The Byzantines at first followed Roman ways. Constantinople was known as the ‘New
Rome.’ Its public buildings and palaces were built in the Roman style. The city even had an
oval arena called the Hippodrome, where chariot races and other events were held.
Byzantine political and social life also were based on that of Rome. Emperors spoke Latin
and enforced Roman laws. The empire’s poor people received free bread and shows.
Wealthy people lived in town or on large farming estates. In fact, many of them had once
lived in Rome.
As time passed, the Byzantine Empire became less Roman and more Greek. Most
Byzantines spoke Greek and honored their Greek past. Byzantine emperors and officials
began to speak Greek too. The ideas of non-Greek peoples, like the Egyptians and the
Slavs, also shaped Byzantine life. Still other customs came from Persia to the east. All of
these cultures blended together to form the Byzantine civilization. Between A.D. 500 and
A.D. 1200, the Byzantines had one of the world’s richest and most advanced empires.”
~ World History
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Why was Constantinople’s location one reason for its success?
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In what ways did the Byzantines follow Roman ways?
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Prove that Greek and non-Greek cultures eventually influenced the Byzantines.
What is most evident from this illustration of Constantinople?
Using the map, why was the Byzantine Empire a crossroads of trade?
Theodora (the wife of Emperor Justinian) Refuses to Flee
Justinian’s court historian recorded Theodora’s opinion about whether to escape or fight
during the A.D. 532 revolt.
“My opinion then is that the present time…is inopportune [not a good time] for flight,
even though it brings safety…For one who has been an emperor, it is unendurable to be a
Fugitive…May I not live that day on which those who meet me shall not address me as
empress. If, now, it is your wish to save yourself, O Emperor, there is no difficulty.”
~ Procopius, “The Nika Riot”
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Why did the empress not wish to escape?
Matching:
1. plague
2. anatomy
3. inflation
4. gladiator
5. regent
6. mosaic
7. paterfamilias
8. ode
a. pictures made of many bits of colored
glass or stone
b. rapidly increasing prices
c. father of a family
d. emotional poem about life’s ups and
downs
e. study of the body’s structure
f. a disease that spreads widely
g. a person who stands in for a ruler who
cannot govern
h. a warrior who fought animals and people
in public arenas