This is all extremely cool. I'm not entirely sure about the logic of having an Orthodox Christian civilisation building the Temple of Artemis and the Statue of Zeus, but there you go. Remember also that "Greek Orthodox" is a misnomer - there's nothing Greek about the Russian church, for example. Better to call them "Eastern Orthodox". If you want more civs to make Orthodox, you could do worse than consider the Hittites, Babylonians, and Sumerians - obviously they had all vanished by the time Orthodoxy came along, but the Middle Eastern churches are essentally the same as the Orthodox (although techically heretical and in schism with Orthodoxy).
Not sure about the idea of the Schism of Justinian, since he didn't do any schism. You might like to think about the Acacian Schism or the Photian Schism, since these were the first times there was official schism between eastern and western Christianity - or if you want an Emperor, you could make it the Schism of Irene (she called the Second Council of Nicaea in 787, which was condemned in the West at the Council of Frankfurt of 794 - or was it 796?). It's a moot point though, because the two churches simply drifted apart rather than offically splitting. The usual date given for the official split is 1054, which is when the Papal envoys deposited a Bull of Excommunication on the altar of Hagia Sophia, thereby excommunicating the entire eastern church.
Hope this helps. Sorry to nit-pick!
Not sure about the idea of the Schism of Justinian, since he didn't do any schism. You might like to think about the Acacian Schism or the Photian Schism, since these were the first times there was official schism between eastern and western Christianity - or if you want an Emperor, you could make it the Schism of Irene (she called the Second Council of Nicaea in 787, which was condemned in the West at the Council of Frankfurt of 794 - or was it 796?). It's a moot point though, because the two churches simply drifted apart rather than offically splitting. The usual date given for the official split is 1054, which is when the Papal envoys deposited a Bull of Excommunication on the altar of Hagia Sophia, thereby excommunicating the entire eastern church.
Hope this helps. Sorry to nit-pick!
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