1.
After the fall of the Roman Empire, Western Europe continued to follow the Roman
Catholicism while Eastern Europe adopted a new form of Christianity known as what?
2.
What made the eastern half of the old Roman Empire thrive while the western half declined?
3.
What greatly influenced the religion and culture of Eastern Europe?
4.
The Byzantine Empire’s ability to survive was because of what things?
5.
Who was the emperor during the time that Byzantine flourished?
6.
What standardized system did the emperor in question #5 create?
7.
What was it that the Byzantine emperor was ordained by GOD to be/do?
8.
The official split in the church was called what?
9.
Unlike the current United States, the Byzantines did not follow the idea of what?
10.
What things were adopted by the Muslims, but practiced by the Byzantines first?
11.
Why did the schism in the church occur?
12.
What group of people were basically used as spies to keep the government of the
Byzantine Empire informed?

13.
Who influenced Byzantine art and architecture?
14.
Who were the Byzantines primarily concerned with as being threats for invasions?
15.
What caused the decline of the Byzantine Empire?
16.
Why wasn’t a merchant class able to develop in the Byzantine Empire?
17.
What were the elements of Byzantine art?