Unit 2 C Vocab. The Fall of Rome

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Most famous Byzantine architecture, built under Justinian I.

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Hagia Sophia

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A religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus

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Christianity

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Pictures made with colored stone or glass

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Mosaics

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Byzantine emperor in the 6th century who initiated a major building program and a new legal code.

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Justinian

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Body of water linking Black Sea & Mediterranean; site of Constantinople

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Bosporus Strait

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Intersection of trade routes

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Crossroads

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Capital of the Byzantine Empire

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Constantinople

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Eastern half of the Roman Empire that survived the fall of the Western half.

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Byzantine Empire

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Franks, Vandals, and Visigoths attacked and ended the Western Roman Empire.

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Germanic barbarians

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Decay of values

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Corruption