BYZANTINE EMPIRE

QUIZ

Period which dealt with a large-scale moving of peoples through Europe where Germanic & Slavic people invaded the Huns and moved west to threaten Roman Empire from 300 to 570 CE.

Migration Period

The name given to Eastern Empire after 485 CE

Byzantine Empire

Emperor of the Byzantines in the 6th Century whom helped the Byzantine empire reconquer the West

Justinian I

Established common civil law, recording and adherence to judicial precedents and formal training for students of law

Justinian Code

Began the lasting mass conversion of the surrounding hostile slavic peoples

Cyril and Methodius Missionaries

Caused military power to diminish from 602-628 CE ultimately leading to the Fall of the sassanids due to the impact from the war

Byzantine-Sassanid War

Period of significant cultural, artistic and intellectual advancements in the Byzantine Empire (Which was an exception)

Macedonian Renaissance

The ones who ended with the Byzantine empire after decades of invasions, wars, plagues internal strife and civil war (In 1453)

Muslim Ottoman Empire

Built an imperial city in Greek Byzantium naming it constantinople and he reinvigorated the empire through civil, economic and militaristic reforms

Emperor Constantine I

The Byzantine empire enhanced world trade through Silk Roads but this also brought forth plagues such as the Black plague and the plague of Justinian

How was the Byzantine Empire affected by trade?