Starter quiz
- Cleopatra was the queen of ...
- 'Egypt' ✓
- Match the name of the person to their title.
- Romulus⇔king ✓
- Julius Caesar⇔dictator ✓
- Augustus⇔emperor ✓
- Why was Julius Caesar referred to as a dictator?
- he was a weak leader
- he had complete power and control over Rome ✓
- he liked to talk a lot
- he had to share power with the Senate
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- A war between different groups of people from the same country is known as a ______ war.
- civil ✓
- uncivil
- world
- cold
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- Match the keyword to its definition.
- republic⇔leaders are elected by the people living in the country ✓
- empire⇔a large area ruled by an emperor ✓
- kingdom⇔a country ruled by a king or queen ✓
- How did a Roman leader show that they were strong and powerful?
- by building hospitals and libraries in the Roman Empire
- by making sure everyone in the Roman Empire had enough food
- by invading other territories to make the Roman Empire larger ✓
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Exit quiz
- Why did Diocletian believe that the Roman Empire was in crisis?
- It had become too big to be ruled by just one emperor ✓
- There were not enough people living in the Empire
- Some provinces started to act independently of the Empire ✓
- It was too small and looked weak compared to other empires
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- What did Diocletian do in 286 CE?
- he conquered more territories
- he split the Roman Empire in two ✓
- he stopped being the emperor
- he asked for help from another empire
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- Constantinople, the new capital of the Eastern Roman Empire, was named in honour of Emperor ...
- Augustus
- Diocletian
- Julius Caesar
- Constantine ✓
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- Match the empire to its capital.
- Byzantine Empire⇔Constantinople ✓
- Western Roman Empire⇔Rome ✓
- Eastern Roman Empire⇔Constantinople ✓
- Some historians believe that the Byzantine Empire’s main legacy is that it helped spread which religion?
- Christianity ✓
- Islam
- Judaism
- Hinduism
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- The main language of the Byzantine people changed from Latin to ...
- Greek ✓
- Byzantine
- Roman
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Key learning points
- The Emperor Diocletian thought that the Roman Empire had too many problems and that it should be split in two.
- Emperor Constantine fought to reunite the empire; he created a new capital called Constantinople in 330 CE.
- The reunited Roman Empire was only temporary and it separated permanently in 395 CE.
- The Western Roman Empire fell in 476 CE; the Eastern Roman Empire became the Byzantine Empire.
- The Byzantine Empire was still thought of as Roman but over time the culture and traditions changed.
Common misconception
People in Byzantine times never called themselves Byzantium.
People in Byzantine times always called themselves Roman.
Keywords
Legacy - a legacy is something from the past that affected history and left a lasting impact on the world
Constantinople - Constantinople was the capital of the Byzantine Empire
Temporary - temporary means something that will disappear over time
Byzantine empire - the Byzantine Empire is the name given by historians to the eastern half of the Roman Empire
Permanent - when something lasts a long time or forever, it is permanent
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