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7th grade The Byzantine Empire: Constantinople, Justinian's laws and saving Greek and Roman learning worksheet

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The Byzantine Empire: Constantinople, Justinian's laws and saving Greek and Roman learning

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Circle the best answer.

  1. Esme's chain has a blank: what passed through Constantinople because of where it stood?

    • A ring of high mountains
    • Trade by land and sea
    • The western parts of the empire
    • Farmers, and no traders

  2. Jun's chain has a blank: which language gradually replaced Latin for official use?

    • Greek
    • French
    • Arabic
    • Persian

  3. Kira's chain has a blank: what happened after the western parts were lost in the 400s?

    • Latin replaced Greek in the east
    • The eastern half carried on
    • Rome became the eastern capital
    • The whole empire ended at once

  4. Luz reads that Constantinople was the capital. What is a capital?

    • A kind of gold coin
    • The city a government is run from
    • A wall around a city
    • The biggest market in a town

  5. Why do books call it the Byzantine Empire, Milo asks?

    • Byzantine is Latin for gold
    • Its own people called themselves the Byzantines
    • An emperor was named Byzantine
    • Historians later named it after Byzantium

  6. Noah reads that Greek was used for official use. What does official mean here?

    • Kept secret
    • Spoken by no one
    • Used for songs and stories
    • Used by the government

  8. In which years was Constantinople the largest and wealthiest city in Europe, Ren asks?

    • From 1453 to today
    • From 324 to 330
    • The 900s, and no other time
    • Mid-400s to early 1200s

  9. Why would a city where land and sea routes meet grow wealthy, Zee asks?

    Use the picture in question 7.

    • Wealth grows out of the roads
    • Routes keep traders away from cities
    • Traders passing through bought and sold there
    • Ships cannot reach it

  11. Why might the eastern government switch to Greek, Ari asks?

    • Latin had been used nowhere
    • Greek was already widely used in the east
    • Greek had been invented that year
    • The western parts asked it to

  12. Bo's friend says the Roman Empire ended in the 400s. Which reply fits the chain?

    Use the picture in question 9.

    • Disagree: it lost no lands
    • Not quite: the eastern half carried on until 1453
    • Agree: it ended in the west and the east then
    • Agree: Greek replacing Latin ended it
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The Byzantine Empire: Constantinople, Justinian's laws and saving Greek learning. Every version has 10 questions, and the answer key prints on the second page.

What your child will learn

  • I can explain how the Roman Empire carried on in the east, why Constantinople's place on land and sea routes made it rich, and where the name Byzantine came from.
  • I can follow Justinian's laws from old Roman law to one body of law, read a line from the Institutes, and tell the date it was written from the date of its translation.
  • I can follow branching chains for Greek learning reaching Italy and for silk making in the empire.

Standard: D2.His.1.6-8

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