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BYZANTIUM TEST 2016
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1) What was an advantage of the new capital located at Constantinople?
a. Byzantium was the center of trade between 3 continents
b. It was easily defended because it was an island.
c. It was the center of worship for 3 religions.
d. It was the most fertile land to grow crops in the Fertile Crescent.
2) Constantinople provided ___ from _____ invaders in the Western Empire
a. Protection/Germanic
b. Trade/Greek
c. Hazard/Roman
d. Distance/African
3) Since Constantinople is located on the sea between Europe and Asia and not too far
from Africa, what phrase could describe it?
a. Center of the Empire
b. Cross roads of Trade
c. Hard to defend
d. Excellent churches
4) Constantinople was easily _____, on a peninsula bordering a natural _____.
a. Attacked/wall
b. Defended/harbor
c. Overrun/Island
d. Invaded/plains
5) What group invaded Constantinople & ending the Byzantine Empire in 1453AD?
a.
b.
c.
d.
Vikings
Vandals
Visigoths
Ottomans Turks
6) The Byzantine Empire ______ classical _____ culture.
a. Ended/Roman
b. Refused/Greek
c. Accepted/Persian
d. Preserved/Greco-Roman
7) Who was the first to codify Roman law?
a. Constantine
b. Justinian
c. Theodora
d. Caesar
8) What happened when Justinian was Emperor?
a. Byzantine reached its height
b. Egypt was invaded
c. Germanic tribes invaded
d. Constantinople burned down
9) The ________ of Roman law impacted _______ legal codes.
a. Legalization/Chinese
b. Codification/European
c. Implementation/Greek
d. Expansion/Asian
10) What did Emperor Justinian do to former Roman territories?
a. Reconquest territories
b. Make alliances
c. Trade more
d. Expand universities
11) In this period of the Byzantine Empire there was a _____ of trade.
a. Lessening
b. Stopping
c. Closing
d. Expanding
12) _____ and ______ traditions were preserved in the Byzantine Empire.
a. Persian/Egyptian
b. Greek/Oriental
c. Roman/Greek
d. Macedonian/Asian
13) What inspired art and architecture in the Byzantine Empire?
a. Judaism/armies
b. Christianity/Imperial power
c. Polytheism/traders
14) What is another name for religious images?
a. Imagios
b. Relics
c. Icons
d. Antiquities
15) What was the famous domed church in Constantinople?
a. Iconos
b. Pantheon
c. Polis
d. Hagia Sophia
16) ______ was the seat of the Eastern Church.
a. Rome
b. Constantinople
c. Athens
d. Byzantium
17) ____ was the seat of the Western Church.
a. Rome
b. Constantinople
c. Athens
d. Byzantium
18) _______ Civilization influenced ______ and Eastern European civilization.
a. Roman/Byzantine
b. Byzantine/Russian
c. Greek/Slavic
d. Baltic/Cyrillic
19) There were important trade routes between the Black Sea & the ______ Sea.
a. Mediterranean
b. Atlantic
c. Pacific
d. Baltic
20) What religion was adopted the Slavs and Russians?
a. Roman Catholicism
b. Eastern Orthodox
c. Polytheism
21) What alphabet was used in Eastern Europe?
a. Latin
b. Roman
c. Greek
d. Cyrillic
22. What did the emperor Justinian do to the preexisting Roman laws?
a. He added harsh punishment to them.
b. He had them written on stone tablets.
c. He reorganized & simplified them.
d. He abolished them & created his own.
23. Religious images are called:
a. icons
b. schism
c. mecca
d. mosaic
24. Justinian’s Code was important because
a. it was the language of the Slavs
b. it explained Roman laws
c. it provided order for the Slavs
d. it was the foundation for many modern European laws
25. The creator of the Cyrillic alphabet was
a. Theodosius
b. Saint Cyril
c. Shi Huong Di
d. Constantine
26. What influence did Theodora have?
a. she was an extremely popular actress
b. she lead China to its most prosperous
c. she pushed for more rights for women
d. she caused the fall of the Byzantine Empire
27. The Cyrillic alphabet was developed to:
a. allow people to trade with Constantinople
b. make everyone in the Roman Empire speak the same language
c. allow the Slavs to read the Bible.
d. enable the nobles to communicate with the peasants.
28. The iconoclasts were:
a. broken churches
b. people that disliked the icons
c. people that liked the icons
d. places to put icons
29. Slavic society was influenced by the culture of
a. Byzantium
c. Islam
b. China
d. Rome
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30. Number 1 on the map is:
a. Aegean Sea b. Black Sea c. Marmara d. Bosporus e. Dardanelles
31. Number 2 on the map is:
a. Aegean Sea b. Black Sea c. Marmara d. Bosporus e. Dardanelles
32. Number 3 on the map is:
a. Aegean Sea b. Black Sea c. Marmara d. Bosporus e. Dardanelles
33. Number 4 on the map is:
a. Aegean Sea b. Black Sea c. Marmara d. Bosporus e. Dardanelles
34. Number 5 on the map is:
a. Aegean Sea b. Black Sea c. Marmara d. Bosporus e. Dardanelles
35. Letter A on the map is:
a. Byzantine Empire b. Constantinople c. Turkey/ Asia Minor
36. Letter B on the map is:
a. Byzantine Empire b. Constantinople c. Turkey/ Asia Minor
37. Letter C on the map is:
a. Byzantine Empire b. Constantinople c. Turkey/ Asia Minor
38. Asia would be represented by what letter on the map. A or C.
39. Europe would be represented by what letter on the map. A or C.
40. (True =A or False = B) Two other names for the City represented by letter by are
Istanbul and Byzantium?