Byzantine Empire Flashcards
(28 cards)
What trade routes connected the Byzantine Empire with Asia?
Silk Roads
Byzantine art is most famous for producing these tiled pictures?
Mosaics
What Russian leader first used the term Czar?
Ivan the Great
What disease weakened the Byzantine Empire during the 14th century?
The Black Death
What geographical landform of Russia made nomadic migrations much easier?
Steppe
What church was built in Constantinople and was later turned into a mosque?
Hagia Sophia
What were the Vikings called that gave Russia its name?
Rus
Much like the monasteries of Western Europe, the Byzantine Empire preserve what types of ancient knowledge and learning?
Roman and Greek
What Russian leader originally converted to Orthodox Christianity and set up a close relationship with the Byzantines?
Vladimir 1st
When Christianity split in 1054 CE, what two church were left?
Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox
Rivers links the Byzantine Empire with what other civilization?
Russia
Crusaders from what Italian trading city looted and sacked Constantinople during the $th Crusade?
Venice
The Orthodox Church believe in conducting services in the ______ of an area.
Languages
What alphabet is the basis for most Eastern European languages?
Cyrillic
What type of buildings were very common in the Byzantine Empire?
Domes
What Mongol leader untied them into one Empire?
Genghis Khan
What Byzantine emperor tried to reunify the entire Roman Empire?
Justinian
Where the RCC has a Pope in charge, the EOC has a _____ in charge?
Patriarch
What group of Muslims conquered the city of Constantinople in 1453?
Ottoman Turks
What set of laws eventually the basis from most European legal system?
Justinian Code
What Russain leader used cruelty to maintain control?
Ivan the Terrible
What Russian leader put them back under their own control after overthrowing the Mongols?
Ivan the Great
What period of European history did Russia miss out on due to being a tribute empire?
Renaissance
What was the official language of the Byzantine Empire?
Greek
