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The Byzantine Empire
Byzantine Empire Webquest
Use the internet
or
your textbook to find the following questions. If some of the links are broken (don’t work), try to find the answer elsewhere).
What was the original name of Constantinople?
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/87186/Byzantine-Empire
It becomes the capital city of which part of the Roman Empire? That empire becomes known as what?
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/87186/Byzantine-Empire
For whom is the city renamed?
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/87186/Byzantine-Empire
How was the geographic location of Constantinople good for defense?
http://www.metmuseum.org/explore/byzantium/byz_3.html
How was geographic location of Constantinople good for trade?
http://www.icsd.k12.ny.us/legacy/highschool/socstud/global2_review/byzantine_empire.htm
How did Justinian build an empire that included much of the original Roman Empire?
http://www.crystalinks.com/byzantine.html
(starts at “Justinian’s conquests in the West began in 533…”)
Look at the map, which territories did the Byzantine Empire include at its height?
http://www.crystalinks.com/byzantine.html
What did Justinian do to make those laws more uniform and what is that code of laws called?
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/MA/BYZ.HTM
What is the Hagia Sophia and why is it a “big” deal?
http://www.crystalinks.com/byzantine.html
(scroll down to Hagia Sophia)
How did the Byzantines preserve Greco-Roman (Classical) culture?
http://www.icsd.k12.ny.us/legacy/highschool/socstud/global2_review/byzantine_empire.htm
Who was Theodora?
http://womenshistory.about.com/od/medbyzantempress/a/theodora.htm