Constantine, Diocletian, Dividing the Empire, and the Byzantine Empire (Mr. Baskin)

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Across
  1. 4. This weaker, declining part of the Roman Empire was ruled by the emperor’s assistants
  2. 8. Wife of Emperor Justinian; strong adviser to her husband; supported women's rights and charities.
  3. 10. The Roman Empire had to rely on _________ soldiers to guard its borders
  4. 13. When he became emperor, he ended the persecution of Christians and ordered the cross to be placed on the shields of Roman soldiers
  5. 14. This emperor realized the Roman Empire was too big to be ruled by one man; so he took the wealthy eastern half
  6. 15. The new capital city was built on a _______________ on major trade routes between Europe and Asia
  7. 18. For more than a ________ years the Hagia Sophia was the world's largest building.
  8. 19. In A.D. 476 ________ invaders seized Rome: the Roman Empire ends.
  9. 21. One cause for Rome's deline: The government could not collect__________ they needed to pay for defending their empire
  10. 22. Western Roman cities built thick walls with _______ that were kept locked at night
Down
  1. 1. The culture that heavily influenced Byzantine culture (language, art, buildings, philosophy)
  2. 2. Eastern ___________ Christians formed their own church; rejected the Pope's authority.
  3. 3. After Diocletian died, Emperor Constantine moved the capital of the Eastern half of the empire to a city named Byzantium; he named it after himself, calling it____________(today,Istanbul, Turkey)
  4. 5. Diocletian did this to Christians, because he was threatened by them; they refused to worship the emperor as a god
  5. 6. Invaders from ___________ Europe spread across the Roman Empire
  6. 7. Constantine ended the persecution of Christians and made Christianity an _________ religion of the Roman Empire.
  7. 9. Constantine was a ____________of Christianity: he granted Christians freedom of worship; promoted Christian leaders, and gave them land and money; and had churches built
  8. 11. This Byzantine emperor (ruled from 527 - 565 A.D.) tried to unify the empire; persecuted non-Christians.
  9. 12. Name of the eastern half of the Roman Empire; lasted a thousand more years after Rome fell.
  10. 16. Justinian build the immense cathedral called the Hagia _________ (Holy Wisdom).
  11. 17. Invaders destroyed Roman_________ and farms and stole from travelers; trade declined
  12. 20. Emperor Justinian and a commission of legal experts produced this; it preserved Roman laws and traditions; forms basis of laws of Western countries.