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The Byzantines
Can you name the facts about the Eastern Roman and Byzantine Empires?
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Capital city of the Eastern Roman and Byzantine Empires...
...once the richest city in the world, now Istanbul
Greek Colony where Constantine would found this city...
...founded in 660 BCE, and a city that has lasted through 3 reincarnations over 2600 years
Emperor who first split the Roman Empire in two...
...who had a capital in Rome and one in Byzantium, and lived in...Croatia
Famously successful general of Emperor Justinian...
...brought the Roman empire to its greatest extent since Trajan
Once the largest Christian temple in the world...
...meaning holy wisdom, converted to a mosque after the fall of Constantinople
Justinian I's legal code...
...a compendium of every single law in the empire
Edict guaranteeing religious freedom throughout the Roman Empire...
...though this did not stop wars based mainly upon religion with the Arabs, Seljuk and Ottoman Turks
Battle at which Constantine defeated Maxentius to become Augustus of the West...
...where Maxentius burned a bridge, built a new one, which fell down, and then drowned
Name of the great walls of the city of Constantinople...
...a double line of walls encircling the whole city for almost 7km
Highly successful Imperial dynasty from c.1085-1185
...resulting in a partial renaissance of the Byzantine's former glory
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The force responsible for the sack and capture of Constantinople in 1203...
...despite the fact that they were allies
Wife of Emperor Justinian I...
...who once convinced her husband to massacre some 30 000 protestors at the hippodrome
Region in which the most important territories of Byzantium lay...
...most of which was lost after the catastrophic Battle of Manzikert in 1071
Emperor who reinstated pagan gods and worship in c.361
...who reportedly particularly enjoyed the sacrifices
Official religion of the Byzantine Empire after 372...
...making this the first Christian state in the world
The year considered the end of the Roman Empire and beginning of the Byzantine Empire...
...after Odoacer is crowned King of Italy and Romulus Augustulus deposed
Emperor who defeated the Persians at Nineveh...
...who returned the True Cross to Jerusalem, from where it is again stolen 10 years later
Flammable liquid used to defeat the Arab navies in the 7th century...
...essentially an early version of napalm, although the 'recipe' is still unknown
The final fall of Constantinople occured in...
...after which Mehmet II heard a sermon from an Imam at the newly converted Hagia Sophia
The vanquishers of the Byzantines and the inheritors of their Empire...
...who will themselves rule from Constantinople (now Istanbul) for the next 550 years
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