Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Medieval
- The Byzantine Empire
- Constantine and His New Rome
- Around 330 AD,
he moved to East
Rome to new city
- City known as
Byzantium/Constanople
- City located/founded in an old Greek city &
had the perfect geographic location to
become a great commercial city because of
the water access
- Constantinople was strategically
important because its location was
good for fighting off Europe's
enemy invasions
- Justanian, 527-565 AD
- He was a transitional figure from
Ancient world to Medieval World
- Military Campaigns, he wanted to take back
the west and to some degree he was
successful
- Corpus Juris Civilis, the body of civil law. It had a
major impact on laws of W. Europe and religious
laws
- Hagia Sophia, one of the
largest/beautiful/important church of
its day.
- It had a huge dome. 1st time
Byzantine Engineers had been
able to put a round dome over
a rectangular building
- There is symbolism in it. It
looks very eastern because
it reflects eastward drift of
Byzantine/Roman Empire
- Theodora
- Queen alongside Justine
- If not for her, Justine may not
have been able to accomplish
the things he did.
- NIKE REVOLT, 531 AD, Justine was frightened by this revolt. Procorpious says
Theodora gave him a pep talk and convinced him not to leave and fight for his
empire. He then put down the revolt, because of Theodora.
- Procopius, 531 AD, wrote books about
history. He didn't like Theodora and Justinian
and was very critical of them. He wrote,
Secret History, a book about them both that
says Theodora came from the lower class
and was not a noble woman and she was a
prostitute.
- The Fall of
Constantinople, 1453
- The Monarchy (an absolute
monarchy), Governed Byzantine
Empire. A bueracacey. They were
Unichs.
- The Byzantine Church, it was a state
church. Closely allied with policies in
Monarch
- Byzantine Army and Navy, best organized, best
led, most discipline of they day. Used best
weaponry, such as 'Greek Fire'.
- The Byzantines put emphasis on education and preserved the learning of
old and passed on to other civilizations, such as Mohammedan World