Ap World History Chapter 13 Flashcards

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