Answer: The answers are:
1-What did the Byzantines call themselves? Romans (romanties)
2-Where did the term "Byzantine" come from? old roman village that was invented from the byzantine.
3-What city was the historic capital city of the Byzantine Empire?-Constantinople
4-What was the Romanitas Period in Byzantine history? -development of roman-style educational system.
5- Why was it called that?
6-Which Emperor tried to literally recreate the Roman Empire? Justinian I; initiated legal and religious reforms; constructed costly buildings in constantinople.
7-What was the Hagia Sophia? It was The Church of the Holy Wisdom built at Constantinople.
8-What were the levels of education in the Byzantine Empire? Primary, Secondary, Imperial
9-What was the highest level school in the empire?-- imperial; only located in capital (one existed); important fields doctors, lawyers, philosophers
10-Which Byzantine Emperor officially ended the Romanitas Period?--Emperor Heraklius I
11-What changes did that very same emperor make for the empire?
changes school curriculum from learning latin grammer to greek; changes state language to greek; changes title of emperor to basileus (greek for king)
12-What was the outcome of the Sassanid-Byzantine War between 602 and 628.--Jerusalem is sacked by the persians; in retaliation Ctesiphon is sacked by byzantine troops; cripples the byzantine/persian empire
Explanation:
1-The Byzantine Empire was a vast and powerful civilization.Roman emperor Constantine I dedicated a “New Rome” on the site of the ancient Greek colony of Byzantium.
2-The term “Byzantine” derives from Byzantium, an ancient Greek colony founded by a man named Byzas.
3-Roman Emperor Constantine chose Byzantium as the site of a “New Rome” with an eponymous capital city.
4-Byzantines developed their own political systems, religious practices, art and architecture, which, although significantly influenced by the Greco-Roman cultural tradition.
5- Because of the sense of Roman Identity
6-Justinian had a goal of re-uniting the Roman Empire.
7-Many great monuments of the empire would be built under Justinian, including the spectacular domed Church of Holy Wisdom.
8-There were three stages of education.
9-There was a school under the control of the patriarch of Constantinople
10- Heraclious favored the Greel and considered the Latin a thing of the past.
11-He reorganized and strengthened the imperial administration and the imperial armies.
12-The Sasanians, capturing and sacking a number of cities as part of a larger goal of exacting tribute and land from the Romans.
