Byzantine Empire Word Search
This Byzantine Empire word search holds forty words from the eastern half of the Roman Empire, which outlived the western half by nearly a thousand years: Constantinople, Justinian and Theodora, the Hagia Sophia, Greek Fire and the icon.
Constantine moved the capital to the old Greek town of Byzantium in 330 and renamed it after himself. Its people never called themselves Byzantine; they spoke Greek but called themselves Romans. In 532 rival chariot fans, the Blues and the Greens of the Hippodrome, joined in the Nika riots and nearly drove Justinian from the throne. Theodora is said to have talked him into staying, and the general Belisarius trapped the rioters in the arena. Justinian then rebuilt the Hagia Sophia, finished in 537, and it was the largest church in the world for nearly a thousand years.
Greek Fire, a burning liquid sprayed from tubes on warships, saved the city from Arab fleets in the 670s, and its recipe was kept so secret that it is lost today. The Theodosian land walls held for a thousand years, until the Ottoman sultan Mehmed II broke them with giant cannons in 1453 and the empire ended.
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Puzzle Vocabulary Words
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- Basileus
- Belisarius
- Blues
- Bosporus
- Byzantium
- Cannon
- Chariot
- Constantine
- Constantinople
- Crusade
- Cyrillic
- Dome
- Eunuch
- Golden Horn
- Greek Fire
- Greens
- Hagia Sophia
- Heraclius
- Hippodrome
- Icon
- Justinian
- Komnenos
- Mehmed
- Monastery
- Mosaic
- Nika
- Orthodox
- Ottomans
- Patriarch
- Plague
- Purple
- Ravenna
- Schism
- Silk
- Solidus
- Theodora
- Theodosian
- Varangian
- Venice
- Walls