Question

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Drag and drop key elements of culture to match the old Roman empire, before its split, and the Byzantine empire. Some answers may be used twice.

Roman empire | Byzantine empire

Answer choices for both are:

capital at rome

capitol at constantinople

finally conquered by ottoman turks

finally conquered by german barbarians

relied heavily on trade

used conquest to expand

greek as official language

latin as official language

Answer 1

1. ROMAN empire: CAPITAL AT ROME and FINALLY CONQUERED BY GERMAN BARBARIANS. BYZANTINE empire: CAPITAL AT CONSTANTINOPLE and FINNALY CANQUERED BY OTTOMAN TURKS

Answer 2

Roman Empire

• Capital at Rome Rome was the Capital of the Roman Empire between 27 BC and 330. Constantinople was Capital of Roman Empire for a short period of time in the Constantine Dynasty.

• Latin as official language Latin was the language of the Romans and the main language of the Empire but there was a lot of languages that used people of the different nations inside the empire territories.

• Greek as official language Greek was another official language because a lot of provinces spoke it as a lingua franca as they were part of the Empire conquered by Alejandro Magno.

• Used conquest to expand The Roman Empire acquired by conquest a lot of territories. They had got an extraordinary army and navy absolutely superior than their enemies.

• Relied heavily on trade The economies were based in agriculture, slavery work and mainly by international commerce. The commerce was the source of economic support of their great military power.

• Finally conquered by Germanic barbarians When the Empire was in a severe crisis in the institutional, moral and economic ways, the Germanic tribes invaded and destroyed the West Roman Empire. Among the invading Germanic peoples we find the Goths, divided into Visigoths in the West and the Ostrogoths in the East. The Franks, the Swabians, the Burgundians, the Angles, the Saxons and the Jutes, the Vandals, the Frisians, the Alans (Iranians) and the Alamanni were the rest of the peoples.

Byzantine empire

• Capital at Constantinople Constantinople was the Capital of Byzantine Empire from 395 to 1453.

• Greek as official language Greek was the main language of the Byzantine Empire between 620 and 1453).

• Latin as official language Latin was the main language of the Byzantine Empire between 395 and 620).

• Relied heavily on trade The geographical site of the Byzantine Empire was specially estrategic because it was in the middle between Asian and European Commercial Routes. They based their power mainly in commerce.

• Used conquest to expand They had the army mainly for defense, but in some periods of time they made a lot of conquest to recover lost territories.

• Finally conquered by Ottoman Turks In 1453 was the final fall of Constantinople in hands of Ottoman Turks.