What was Justinian's Code?

Question 1 options:

rules for the behavior of government officials

a secret military code used by Justinian's armies

a single, consistent set of laws for the Byzantine Empire

the laws that governed trade in the Byzantine Empire

Question 2

Which describes what Theodora achieved as Justinian's most trusted adviser?

Question 2 options:

designing new aqueducts, granaries, theaters, and forums

convincing the Byzantine government to fund the construction of the Hagia Sophia

preventing the spread of the bubonic plague throughout Constantinople

getting laws passed to give married women more rights and to protect divorced women

Question 3

What caused the Christian church to divide into two branches—the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Catholic Church?

Question 3 options:

differences in language, liturgy, and views on religious icons

the rise of the Byzantine Empire in the East

disagreements by church leaders on interpreting the scriptures

the fall of the Western Roman Empire

Question 4

What was a result of the work done by the monks Cyril and Methodius?
Question 4 options:

Latin replaced Greek as the language of the Eastern Orthodox Church.

Orthodox Christianity spread to Slavic cultures.

The eastern and western branches of Christianity were reunited.

Christianity became the official religion of Russia.

Question 5

Which is true about Byzantine culture?
Question 5 options:

It created spectacular works of art, including mosaics and frescoes.

It was completely unlike Greek and Roman culture.

It was just like Persian culture.

It was not influenced by religion.

Question 6

Which was not a major accomplishment of Byzantine culture?
Question 6 options:

spectacular mosaics

the reconstruction of Moscow

the Hagia Sophia

Justinian's Code

Question 7

Which group invaded the Slavic homeland beginning in the ninth century?
Question 7 options:

Mongols

Tatars

Persians

Varangians

Question 8

What did Vladimir, prince of Kiev, do in 988 to help unify his people?

Question 8 options:

He converted to Orthodox Christianity.

He ended his war against the Byzantine Empire.

He waged war against the Byzantine Empire.

He converted to Roman Catholicism.

Question 9

Which describes what happened to Islam after the death of Muhammad?
Question 9 options:

It spread only to the east, toward India and China.

It spread rapidly, quickly covering an area from Spain to India.

It eventually died out as a religion.

It was practiced by only a few people in small parts of the world.

The Justinian´s Code was a set of laws written and sponsored by order of the emperor Justinian I of the Byzantine Empire, now they are studied as a fundamental work on jurisprudence and it unified the laws and statutes of the Byzantine Empire.

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Answer:

1)a single, consistent set of laws for the Byzantine Empire - this code was developed by legal scholars closed to Justinian and influenced not only byzantine law, but also ottoman law.

2)convincing the Byzantine government to fund the construction of the Hagia Sophia - the construction of the Hagia Sophia is in fact considered her greatest achievement.

3)disagreements by church leaders on interpreting the scriptures - The differences between greek-oriented churches in the east and roman-oriented churches in the west were vary deep and developed throughout the previous years.

4)Orthodox Christianity spread to Slavic cultures - these monks are in fact known the "Apostles of the Slavs", because they spread christianity among the slavic peoples.

5)It created spectacular works of art, including mosaics and frescoes. Byzantine culture was famous for its art, precisely for its mosaics and frescoes, but also for the architecture. Constantinople was at the time one of the biggest cities in the world.

6)The reconstruction of Moscow - Moscow was never part of the lands dominated by the Byzantine Empire.

7)The Varangians - "Varangians" is the slavic name for "Vikings". The Vikings began to invade slavic lands in the 9th century. They in fact founded cities such as Kiev and Novgorod, which still exist to this day.

8)He converted to Orthodox Christianity. - He in fact, analyzed various religious to decide to which to convert. He disliked Islam because of its prohibition to eat pork and drink alcohol. He decided that the loss of Jerusalem proved that God had abandoned the Jewish people. He sent emissaires to Germany to take a look at catholics churches but they were unimpressed and found no beauty in them. Finally, his emissaires went to Constantinople and impressed Vladimir with their accounts to the beauty of Hagia Sophia and the ceremonies that took place there.

9)t spread rapidly, quickly covering an area from Spain to India. Muhammad died in 632, and by the time of the Umayyad Caliphate, a century later, Islam had conquered most of the Iberian Peninsula (Portugal and Spain), and had also spread to the Indus Valley (modern Pakistan and India).