Quiz 23/24

Question 1

Roman emperor who divided the empire into a West and an East section.

Answer 1

Diocletian

Question 2

Eastern half of the Roman Empire that survived the fall of the Western half.

Answer 2

Byzantine Empire/Eastern Roman

Question 3

Emperor of the Roman Empire who moved the capital to Constantinople. He eventually converted to Christianity as well.

Answer 3

Constantine

Question 4

Emperor of the Roman Empire who made Christianity the official religion of the empire.

Answer 4

Theodosius

Question 5

The wife of Justinian, she helped to improve the status of women in the Byzantine Empire and encouraged her husband to stay in Constantinople and fight the Nike Revolt

Answer 5

Theodora

Question 6

The Cathedral of Holy Wisdom in Constantinople, built by order of the Byzantine emperor Justinian

Answer 6

Hagia Sophia

Question 7

Byzantine empire’s greatest emperor.

Answer 7

Justinian

Question 8

The body of Roman civil law collected and organized by order of the Byzantine emperor Justinian around A.D. 534.

Answer 8

Justinian Code

Question 9

Capital of the Byzantine Empire

Answer 9

Constantinople

Question 10

The buying and selling of goods

Answer 10

commerce

Question 11

A.D. 1054 Split of Christian church, Roman Catholicism in the West and Orthodox Christianity in the East.

Answer 11

Great Schism (East-West Schism)

Question 12

Ottoman Turks conquered Constantinople in 1453 and invaded Eastern Europe and brought the end to Christian dominance in the East. (1453)

Answer 12

Fall of the Byzantine Empire