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Topic: The Byzantine Empire: Constantinople and Justinian I (Pages 61-63)
(313 CE, 330 CE, Byzantium, Constantinople, Emperor, legalized, Rome, western)
Section 6.1 (pg 61) and
Constantine was the Roman ___________ who ___________ Christianity in the
section 3.2 (pg 32)
Who was Constantine?
year ________. Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire
What two important things after his death in 395 CE. In ________ he moved the capital of the Empire from
did he do?
___________ to the city of ________________. _____________ later came to be
known as _____________________. This shift strengthened the eastern half of the
empire and weakened the _____________________.
Section 6.2
Why was Constantinople
ideally located to be the
capital of the Byzantine
Empire?
What were some of
Constantinople’s main
features?
(bread, chain, chariot, crossroads, defend, east, Greek, harbor, orphanages,
poverty, public works, sea, sewer system, three, trade, wall, water, watch towers)
Constantinople was easy to ________ and it lay at the _________of many ______
and overland ___________ routes linking ________ and west.
Constantinople was surrounded by ________on _______sides and fortified by
miles of ________with ____________ and gates. A large ________ protected the
mouth of its harbor. The city had a ________________, hospitals, homes for the
elderly, and ___________.
What was daily life like in
Constantinople?
Life in Constantinople was more advanced than in western Europe. The city’s
language was ___________, but traders and visitors spoke many languages. Most
people lived in ____________. Many people attended ________ races. The
emperor gave _________to the unemployed, who did ___________ in exchange.
Section 6.3
What event forced
Justinian to rebuild parts
of Constantinople?
(City, Hagias Sophia, Hippodrome, hospitals, property, public baths, rioting,
roads, women)
Large parts of the___________ were ruined when fighting in the ______________
spilled into the streets and escalated into a ____________.
What were some of the
improvements made to
Constantinople as a result
of Justinian’s public
works projects?
New bridges, ____________, parks,_____________, and ____________ were
built. In addition, the ________________, a grand cathedral, was built.
How has Justinian’s Code Justinian’s Code is the basis for many ____________ in the western world, and
affected the modern
was one of the first to extend_____________ rights to _________________.
world?
Summary: Describe Constantinople. What was good about it? What problems did it have? and how
did Emperor Justinian I deal with those problems? ____________________________________________
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Topic: The Byzantine Empire: The Eastern Orthodox Church and the Great Schism (Pages 64-67)
(church, emperor ,government, head, Monasteries, poor, represent, sick)
Section 6.4
What was the relationship
between religion and
government in the
Byzantine Empire?
Religion and _______________were closely linked. The __________was believed
to be both the __________of the government and the ________________ Jesus
Christ on Earth.
How did the Eastern
Orthodox Church play a
central role in the daily
life of Byzantines?
Most people attended ___________ regularly and received sacraments at every
stage of their lives. _____________________and convents, homes for monks and
nuns, cared for the __________ and __________.
Section 6.5
(800 CE, 1054 CE , Eastern Orthodox Church, Charlamegne, excommunicated,
icons, Leo III, patriarch, prayer, Roman Catholic Church, schism, western
worshiping)
____________ are religious art used in religious services and ___________
Emperor __________believed that people were wrongly ________________ the
icons themselves. Leo II ordered icons to be destroyed. Pope Gregory III
____________ the emperor (kicked him out of the church).
Why did Byzantine
emperor Leo III forbid the
use of icons in 730? How
did the pope react to Leo’s
order?
What event in 800
increased tensions
between the east and
west?
In __________, Pope Leo crowned ________________, the king of the Franks, as
Holy Roman emperor. This outraged the Byzantines, who felt they were the
rightful rulers of the Roman Empire.
How did the relationship
between the Eastern
Orthodox Church and the
Roman Catholic Church
change in 1054?
In _________, the _________ of Constantinople closed down churches that
worshiped in the _______________ style. In response, the Pope excommunicated
the Patriarch. This created a permanent _____________
a schism, or formal division, resulted in the ____________________________
and the ______________________________ becoming two separate Christian
churches.
Summary: Describe the Eastern Orthodox Church and the reasons it split from the Roman Catholic
Church. __________________________________________________________________________________
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