Study Questions for Mango. Byzantium
Identification items
- Justinian
- Constantinople
- Asia Minor
- Aramaic
- Syriac
- monastery
- Alexandria
- Coptic
- Berber
- Armenians
Questions
1. What held the Byzantine state together, given its religious
controversies and linguistic diversity?
2. What were the relationships between language and religion, and
between religion and ethnicity in Byzantium?
3. What did it mean to be a "Roman"? Is there a difference between
"Roman" and "Byzantine"?