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| 11395471483 | silk | according to Porcopius, two sixth century Christian monks undertook an elaborate smuggling operation to provide Byzantium with the knowledge to produce? | 0 | |
| 11395471484 | Byzantine Empire | the only classical society that survived in the centuries after 400 CE was the? | 1 | |
| 11395471485 | its strategic position on the Bosporus | Byzantium's major advantage was? | 2 | |
| 11395471486 | it was built in an attempt to vitalize the impoverished eastern half of the Roman empire. | which of the following statements about Constantinople is NOT true? | 3 | |
| 11395471487 | Arabia | which part of the Mediterranean basin was never part of the Byzantine empire? | 4 | |
| 11395471488 | Sasanid emperors | up through the 8th century, the chief foreign threat to the eastern Roman Empire was? | 5 | |
| 11395471489 | its tightly centralized rule under a powerful emperor | the most important political feature of the Byzantine state was? | 6 | |
| 11395471490 | caesaropapism | the mixture of secular and religious authority that marked Constantine's reign as well as that of the Byzantine emperors is known as? | 7 | |
| 11395471491 | the system where the emperor has a mixture of political and religious authority | historians use the term caesaropapism to refer to? | 8 | |
| 11395471492 | unnecessary complexity and convolution | the adjective "byzantine" drawn from the government of Byzantium, stands for? | 9 | |
| 11395471493 | striptease artist | Theodora's career before marrying Justinian was as a? | 10 | |
| 11395471494 | the magnificent church at Constantinople | Hagia Sophia was? | 11 | |
| 11395471495 | his codification of Roman law Corpus iuris civilis (body of the civil law) | Justinian's most important and long-lasting political achievement was? | 12 | |
| 11395471496 | won recognition as the definitive codification of Roman law | justinian's issuance of the Corpus iuris civilis? | 13 | |
| 11395471497 | Belisarius (justinian's general) | Italy, Sicily, northwestern Africa, and southern Spain were brought back under imperial control by the military victories of? | 14 | |
| 11395471498 | Arabic forces | constantinople withstood seiges in 674-678 and 717-718 by | 15 | |
| 11395471499 | theme system | one of the causes of Byzantine resurgence was the political innovation wherein a general was given military and civil control over an imperial province or? | 16 | |
| 11395471500 | Basil II | the Byzantine ruler who led a resurgence of power in the 11th century by crushing the Bulgars was? | 17 | |
| 11395471501 | The Byzantine incendiary weapon | the term Greek "fire" refers to? | 18 | |
| 11395471502 | Kleidion | Basil II crushed the Bulgars in 1014 at the Battle of? | 19 | |
| 11395471503 | Theodora | the wife of Justinian, who proved to be an invaluable adviser, was? | 20 | |
| 11395471504 | Charlemagne | a direct challenge to the Byzantine emperor arose in the year 800 when the pope gave an imperial crown to the Frankish king, ? | 21 | |
| 11395471505 | Claimed to rule as emperor of the old western half of the Roman Empire | in the year 962, Otto of Saxony? | 22 | |
| 11395471506 | Made land available to the peasants in return for military service | the theme system? | 23 | |
| 11395471507 | silk | by the late 6th century, Byzantium became the Mediterranean world's leading producer of? | 24 | |
| 11395471508 | Was the Byzantine gold coin that became the standard currency in the Mediterranean basin | the bezant? | 25 | |
| 11395471509 | Greek | from the 6th century on, the official language of Constantinople was? | 26 | |
| 11395471510 | the Green and the Blues | the main factions during Justinian's time who contested in the Hippodrome and who occasionally fought in the streets were? | 27 | |
| 11395471511 | Basic literacy was widespread in Byzantine society | which of the following describes education in Byzantium? | 28 | |
| 11395471512 | Nicaea | in 325 CE, in an effort to answer the Arians, Constantine brought together leading churchmen at the Council of ? | 29 | |
| 11395471513 | Jesus had been a mortal human being | the Alexandrian priest, Arius, leader of the Arians, believed that? | 30 | |
| 11395471514 | iconoclasm | Emperor Leo III inaugurated the divisive ecclesiastical policy of? | 31 | |
| 11395471515 | St. Simeon Stylite | which of the following was the first and most famous of the "pillar saints"? | 32 | |
| 11395471516 | Played a key role in the rise of monasticism | St. Basil of Caesarea? | 33 | |
| 11395471517 | Mutually excommunicated each other | in 1054 the pope in Rome and the patriarch in Constantinople? | 34 | |
| 11395471518 | Sacked Constantinople and caused extreme harm to the Byzantine Empire | the Fourth Crusade, in early 1204, ? | 35 | |
| 11395471519 | Fourth Crusade | in a disaster from which the Byzantine Empire never really recovered, Constantinople was sacked in 1204 by the? | 36 | |
| 11395471520 | Saljuqs | in 1071, Byzantium lost the Battle of Manzikert and control over Anatolia to the? | 37 | |
| 11395471521 | Manzikert | the Byzantine Empire suffered a devastating loss to the Saljuq Turks in 1071 at the Battle of? | 38 | |
| 11395471522 | Ottoman Turks | Constantinople finally fell in 1453 to the? | 39 | |
| 11395471523 | Devised the Cyrillic alphabet | Saints Methodius and Cyril? | 40 | |
| 11395471524 | Kiev | What city, influenced heavily by Constantinople ,was most important in the early rise of Russia? | 41 | |
| 11395471525 | Prince Vladimir of Kiev | the rise of Orthodox Christianity in Russia was helped by the conversion in 989 of? | 42 | |
| 11395471526 | the third Rome | by the 16th century, Russians had begun to think of Moscow as? | 43 |
