History Activity: Byzantine Empire

History activity, aimed at students in the ninth year of elementary school, with questions developed about the Byzantine Empire.

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SCHOOL: DATE:

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Byzantine Empire

1) The Byzantine sovereign was involved with religion and had a good relationship with the priests. Analyzing the Byzantine governments of medieval times, it is clear:
a) the outdated power of the aristocracy, inhibiting the sovereign.
b) strong bureaucratic inspection performance.
c) the divine character of the sovereign, omnipotent to all.
d) political decentralization in business.
e) the exclusive participation of priests in the economy.

2) The one known as the Schism of the East, which occurred in 1054, implied:

a) in the separation of the Roman Empire into two parts.
b) in the advance of the Arabs on the lands of Europe, undoing the agreement that demarcated the borders that divided Christians and Muslims.
c) the division of the Empire of Charlemagne giving rise to France and Germany.
d) the division of the Catholic Church with the rise of the Orthodox Church in Constantinople.
e) the formation of Christian kingdoms in Palestine detached from the Church of Rome.

3) Several causes explain the survival of the Roman Empire in the East, until the middle of the 15th century, one of them is:
a) political capacity of the Byzantines to maintain control over their territory, subordinated to a Despotic and Theocratic Monarchy;
b) economic autonomy of the Ottoman city-states
c) essential ruralization of society to protect itself from disintegrated migrations;
d) capacity of Sultan Mohammed II who maintained the Ottoman unity of the Byzantine Empire;
e) decentralized policy, a consequence of Greek and Roman migrations.

4) About the Byzantine Empire, it is incorrect to state that:
a) It had among its rulers the Emperor Justinian, under whom the compilation of Roman law was made, later incorporated into modern Western systems of law;
b) It had its capital in ancient Greek Byzantium, transformed into Constantinople by the Roman emperor Constantine;
c) It was the only ancient empire that resisted Roman rule;
d) It was governed by a centralized and despotic imperial power;
e) The main heresies observed there were those of the
monophysitists and iconoclasts.

5) What was the Nika Revolt that took place in the Byzantine Empire in 532 d. Ç.
a) A movement against Emperor Justinian, provoked by his political enemies, the legitimist aristocrats.
b) A cultural movement that took place in Europe to spread the Old Testament.
c) An attempted invasion by the barbarians of what was left of the western Roman empire.
d) An attempt to seize power from Emperor Augustus by a part of the Roman army.
e) A set of prescriptions of the Roman Catholic Church against the barbarians who invaded Rome.

Per Camila Farias.

At answers are in the link above the header.

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