The Byzantine Empire: Constantinople, Justinian's laws and saving Greek and Roman learning
Grade 7 Social Studies Worksheet - Building Confidence
Circle the best answer.
Esme's chain has a blank: what passed through Constantinople because of where it stood?
- Farmers, and no traders
- Trade by land and sea
- A ring of high mountains
- The western parts of the empire
Jun's chain has a blank: which language gradually replaced Latin for official use?
- Persian
- Arabic
- French
- Greek
Kira's chain has a blank: what happened after the western parts were lost in the 400s?
- Rome became the eastern capital
- Latin replaced Greek in the east
- The whole empire ended at once
- The eastern half carried on
Luz reads that Constantinople was the capital. What is a capital?
- A wall around a city
- A kind of gold coin
- The city a government is run from
- The biggest market in a town
Why do books call it the Byzantine Empire, Milo asks?
- Its own people called themselves the Byzantines
- Byzantine is Latin for gold
- Historians later named it after Byzantium
- An emperor was named Byzantine
Noah reads that Greek was used for official use. What does official mean here?
- Spoken by no one
- Used by the government
- Kept secret
- Used for songs and stories
In which years was Constantinople the largest and wealthiest city in Europe, Ren asks?
- Mid-400s to early 1200s
- From 1453 to today
- The 900s, and no other time
- From 324 to 330
What did the people of the eastern empire call themselves, Tala asks?
- Istanbulis
- Romans
- Byzantines
- Latins
Why would a city where land and sea routes meet grow wealthy, Zee asks?
- Ships cannot reach it
- Traders passing through bought and sold there
- Routes keep traders away from cities
- Wealth grows out of the roads
Bo's friend says the Roman Empire ended in the 400s. Which reply fits the chain?
- Disagree: it lost no lands
- Agree: it ended in the west and the east then
- Agree: Greek replacing Latin ended it
- Not quite: the eastern half carried on until 1453