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The Byzantine Empire – Quiz

Directions: Select the best possible answer from the given options.

ANSWER KEY

1. What city served as the capital of the Byzantine 6. What was the state religion of the Eastern Roman
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Empire? Empire circa 1300?

a. Adrianople a. Eastern Orthodoxy
b. Ankara b. Hasidic Judaism
c. Constantinople c. Roman Catholicism
d. Nicodemia d. Shi’ite Islam
2. Which of the following modern countries was not 7. The city of Constantinople is now called
part of the Byzantine Empire? __________.
a. Bulgaria a. Athens
b. Egypt b. Byzantium
c. France c. Istanbul
d. Germany d. Sarajevo
3. What Eastern Roman emperor assumed the 8. Which of the following was not a Byzantine
throne in 527 C.E.? invention?
a. Anastasius I a. cannon
b. Justinian I b. flamethrower
c. Romulus Augustus c. grenade
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d. Theodoric the Great d. hand-trebuchet

4. A Byzantine-made version of the ancient Roman 9. What was the state language of the Eastern
legal code became known as the __________. Roman Empire after the 7th century?
a. Byzantine Constitution a. Arabic
b. Justinian Code b. Greek
c. Ten Commandments c. Latin
d. Twelve Tables d. Russian
5. What group conquered Constantinople in 1453? 10. What renowned church was built by Emperor
a. Bulgarians Justinian in the sixth century?
b. Greco-Romans a. Canterbury Cathedral
c. Kievan Rus b. Hagia Sophia
d. Ottomans c. Notre Dame
d. St. Peter’s Basilica

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