The Byzantine Empire

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  1. 4. The main street running through the Byzantine capital.
  2. 9. Rebuilt by Justinian after its destruction in 532, this church became known as the most beautiful Christian church in the world. It is currently a mosque.
  3. 10. A powerful threat to the east of the Byzantine Empire.
  4. 13. This was the originally name of the Greek settlement that Constantine made the new capital of the Roman Empire in the East.
  5. 14. The highest administrative officials in the Christian church. The Pope is the ... of Rome.
  6. 16. The previous profession of Justinian's wife.
  7. 17. This famous collection of laws was established by Justinian and codified diverse aspects of life in the Byzantine Empire.
  8. 19. The name of reorganized military districts in the Byzantine Empire.
  9. 20. Byzantine emperors often lived in constant fear of this.
  10. 21. This was first invented to allow Slavic peoples to read the Bible, but is still used for the written form of many Slavic languages, including Russian.
  11. 22. The name for the official head of the Eastern Church.
  12. 23. A famous Eastern missionary who, along with Saint Methodius, Christianized Slavic peoples and created a written form of their languages so that they could read the Bible.
  13. 25. This Germanic people had captured Rome when a Byzantine general took it back from them in 535.
  14. 27. This language became increasingly less frequently spoken in the East.
  15. 28. The primary language spoken in the Byzantine Empire.
  16. 29. This revolt began as a dispute between Byzantine sports fans and ended with the deaths of roughly 30,000 people.
  17. 30. This important figure in Eastern Christianity wrote about rules for appropriate behavior for Christian monks.
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  1. 1. This occurred in 1054 when the heads of the Christian Churches of both the East and the West cast each other out.
  2. 2. Emperor of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire from
  3. 3. Justinian's best general. He experienced much military success against invading Germanic tribes.
  4. 5. This people captured the city of Constantinople in 1453, marking the end of the Roman Empire in both the East and the West, but also according to some historians, the end of the Middle Ages.
  5. 6. These religious images used by Eastern Christians to aid their devotions were sometimes considered to be idol worship, which the Bible forbids.
  6. 7. This was the name of a famous stadium where one could see chariot races and other acts.
  7. 8. This crisis was the result of a terrible infectious illness that spread toward the end of Justinian's time as emperor.
  8. 11. The official name for the act of casting someone out of the Christian Church.
  9. 12. Originally a threat to Byzantine security in the north of the empire, these people were eventually converted to Christianity.
  10. 15. This Byzantine emperor attempted to reform the empire by organizing it in a military fashion.
  11. 18. The new name for the capital of the Roman Empire after it was moved by Constantine in 330 AD.
  12. 24. The name for the official head of the Western (Roman Catholic) Church.
  13. 26. Byzantine empress and wife of Justinian. She proved herself to be very capable and determined diplomatic, political, and religious matters in the Byzantine Empire.