Unit 5 - Christianity and the Byzantine Empire Crossword

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Across
  1. 5. Middle Eastern country where the official language is Hebrew
  2. 8. a Jewish house of worship
  3. 9. first five books in the Hebrew Bible, or Old Testament
  4. 10. strait (narrow passage of water) that forms a boundary between Asia and Europe and divides Turkey
  5. 11. tells the story of Jesus and his followers, as well as the beginnings of Christianity
  6. 12. Jewish homeland / mountainous region in the southern parts of modern Palestine and Israel
  7. 14. originally Saul of Tarsus / one of the leaders of the first generation of Christians
  8. 16. formerly known as Constantinople
  9. 17. belief in one god
  10. 19. language of administration in the Eastern Roman Empire and already widely spoken among the Eastern Mediterranean nations
  11. 20. land mass that constitutes most of modern Turkey / western-most extension of the Asian continent
Down
  1. 1. first Roman emperor to convert to Christianity in 312 CE / his reign marked the transition from the Classical Age to the Middle Ages
  2. 2. disciples of Jesus who helped spread Christianity in territories controlled by the Roman Empire
  3. 3. declared tolerance for Christianity in the Roman Empire
  4. 4. founder of the Church of Rome and first Pope
  5. 6. original language of the Romans that became the administrative language of the Western Roman Empire
  6. 7. what Byzantium was renamed when the city was dedicated to Constantine
  7. 13. language of the Bible, Jewish prayer, and a modern language spoken in Israel
  8. 14. Greek name for the entire region / Judea renamed ________ after Judean Revolt in 132-135 AD
  9. 15. someone who is persecuted for their faith
  10. 18. some historians theorize that this Roman emperor, as the first persecutor of Christians and the first creator of martyrs (including the apostles Peter and Paul), was the Antichrist referenced in the Bible