Starter quiz
- During which Roman Emperor's reign was the persecution of Christians ended?
- Nero
- Augustus
- Constantine ✓
- Hadrian
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- Constantine moved the capital of the Roman Empire eastwards to the city of ______, which he renamed Constantinople.
- 'Byzantium' ✓
- The name for the organisation that oversaw the Christian religion is the ...
- 'Church' ✓
- The Bishop of Rome is also called the ...
- 'pope' ✓
- Which statement best describes Christianity in Western and Eastern Europe during the Early Middle Ages?
- Christianity was broadly the same in the East and West, with some differences. ✓
- Christianity was exactly the same in the East and West, with no differences.
- Christianity was totally different in the East and West, with many differences.
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- The Byzantine Empire considered themselves to be ...
- Greek ✓
- Roman
- Egyptian
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Exit quiz
- In Western Europe the most important bishop was the Bishop of ...
- 'Rome' ✓
- In the east, important bishops were known as ...
- 'patriarchs' ✓
- Which of these best describes the way the Church was led?
- The pope controlled the Western Church himself. ✓
- In the west, the pope shared his power with other bishops.
- In the east, the patriarchs worked together. ✓
- In the east, there was one dominant patriarch.
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- In the 7th century only the Patriarch of __________ was left.
- Jerusalem
- Alexandria
- Antioch
- Constantinople ✓
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- Which of these statements is correct?
- The Eastern Church used Greek in its services. ✓
- The Eastern Church used Latin in its services.
- The Western Church used Greek in its services.
- The Western Church used Latin in its services. ✓
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- The formal splitting of the two Churches was known as the 'Great ______'.
- 'Schism' ✓
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Key learning points
- Some of the disputes resulted in the location and relative isolation of the two centres of Christianity.
- There were liturgical disputes between different members of the Church.
- One dispute concerned the nature of the Holy Spirit.
- These disputes resulted in the Church splitting into the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches.
- The 1054 Schism could be regarded as a transformational change.
Common misconception
Christianity is a single religion.
There are more than 45 000 different Christian denominations around the world today: although most of them believe the same fundamental things, there are stark differences between many of them.
Keywords
Church - the Church is the organisation of the Christian religion
Holy spirit - in Christianity, the Holy Spirit is the manifestation of God in the world
Liturgy - liturgy means the form in which worship is conducted
Schism - a schism is a split between strongly opposed parties
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