JEOPARDY

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JEOPARDY

• Byzantine/Mongols Civilization

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Categories
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200
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400
500
Geography
The Empire
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200
300
400
500
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200
300
400
500
People
200
300
500
100
400
Russia
300
200
400
500
100
The Mongols
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400
200
500
100
Vocabulary
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These are the three names throughout History used
for the capital city of the Byzantine Empire.
What are Istanbul, Constantinople,and Byzantium?
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These are the three bodies of water that protect
the city of Constantinople.
What are the Bosporus, the Golden Horn, and The
the Sea of Marmara?
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These were the two large bodies of water that met
at the capital of the Byzantine Empire.
What were the Black and Mediterranean Seas (
could also say Aegean Sea)?
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These are the three mountain ranges that border
the Russian or European steppe.
What are the Carpathian, Caucasus, and Ural
montains?
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These were the five cities, whos Bishops or
patriarchs governed the Christian Church until
600 A.D. and the rise of Islam.
What were Constantinople, Rome, Antioch,
Alexandria and Jerusalem?
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He was the great leader of the Byzantine Empire.
Who was Emperor Justinian I?
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This was the revolt that took place in
Constantinople and threatened to bring down the
reign of Justinian.
What was the Nika Rebellion?
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He was Justinians brilliant general, who with
the aid of Greek fire extended the empire to
almost the size of the old Roman Empire.
Who was Belisarius?
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These were the two brothers who extended
Byzantine and Greek Orthodox teaching into Slavic
Eastern and Central Europe.
Who were Methodius and Cyril?
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This was the huge church built by Justinian in
532 A.D. with a huge dome 165 feet high.
What was the Hagia Sophia?
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Dont Choke!
Daily Double
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He was the greatest ruler of Kievan Rus and ruled
from 1019-1054 A.D.
Who was Yaroslav the Wise?
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He was the first Mongol leader who organized the
various tribes of the eastern steppe into a
lethal fighting force.
Who was Genghis Khan?
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They were the Russian nobles.
Who were the boyars?
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She was Justinians brilliant wife, who many said
was the power behind the throne.
Who was Theodora?
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He was the first Russian Czar and earned several
nicknames for his harsh punishments and
autocratic style of government.
Who was Ivan IV or Ivan the Terrible or Ivan the
Awesome?
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He was the first Muscovite Prince to refuse to
pay taxes to the Mongols and overthrew Mongol
rule in 1480.
Who was Ivan III?
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He was the chief bishop of the Kievan church
chosen by the religious head of the Greek
Orthodox church.
Who was the metropolitan?
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This was the forest zone of northern Kievan Rus
frozen most of year with a limited four month
growing season.
What was the Taiga?
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This was the first Russian law code issued by
Yaroslav the Wise.
What was the Pravda Russkaia?
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These are the five important rivers of the
Russian steppe that begin with D and one with V
that empty into the Baltic or Black Seas.
What are the Dneiper, the Dvina, the Dniester,
the Don and the Vistula?
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Dont Choke!
Daily Double
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These were the two cities in Kievan Rus that
prospered along the Viking trade routes.
What were Novgorod and Kiev?
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This was the city that the Mongols were about to
attack before suddenly leaving and returning to
elect a new leader or Khan.
What was Vienna?
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This is the island kingdom that the Mongols twice
unsuccessfully tried to invade during the reign
of Kublai Khan.
What was Japan and the kamikaze or sacred winds
that blew apart both Mongol fleets?
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This was the capital of the Mongol empire before
they established the Yuan dynasty in China.
What was Samarkand?
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These were two innovations that the Mongols left
the Slavic people of eastern Europe.
What were well made roads and better systems of
taxation and communication?
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This is the term used for the wealth ( often
mandated) that a woman brought to a marriage.
What is a dowry?
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This is the term for the holy pictures of Jesus
and the Virgin Mary so important in the Greek
Orthodox Church.
What are icons?
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This is the act that split the Roman and Greek
Christian churches and caused a permanent
separation between the two.
What was the iconoclastic controversy?
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These are pictures or designs formed by inlaid
pieces of stone, glass, or enamel. (Also often
done in kindergarten with colored macaroni)
What are mosaics?
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This was the Byzantine preservation of Roman Law
sometimes called the Corpus Juris Civilis.
What was the Justinian Code?