Answer the following questions:
Why was Constantinople established as the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire?
Using the cluster below: show Justinian’s accomplishments as emperor of the New
Rome (Byzantine Empire).
Justinian
Answer the following questions:
What were the contributions of Byzantine art and architecture?
How did Greek and Roman culture survive within the Byzantine Empire?
Fill in the chart below: describe the differences between the Eastern and Western
Christian Traditions.
ROMAN CATHOLIC
EASTERN ORTHODOX
What factors produced the division known as the “Great Schism”
to occur in the Christian Church?
Fill in the chart below: show the effects of the Byzantine influence on Eastern Europe
and Russia.
Trade
Culture
Know the following people:
Olga:
Vladimir:
Yaroslav the Wise:
Alexander Nevsky:
Religion
Writing
Art/Architecture