Transcript Byzantine PPT

Constantinople
• Once called ________________
• Constantine renamed it _____ ______.
• Citizens renamed “City of Constantine,”
capital of the later Roman and Byzantine
Empires
• C__________- Roman Emperor 300s AD
– Stopped persecution of ___________. (Edict of
Milan*)
– Why?
– Moved capital from Rome to Constantinople
Key Location for T_______
Located on the __________ __________
– ______- narrow passage that links two bodies of water
– Links Europe and Asia
• Goods came into city from all directions
• Byzantines taxed all goods passing through city
(preventing from going to ___________)
• Became center of trade w/ rich diversity of people,
goods, and ideas
• As Constantinople thrives; Western Rome Falls
– 476- last Roman Emperor thrown out
Germanic/Barbaric chief takes power
The Age of Justinian
• Great Byzantine Emperor; came from poor family
• Named “Flavius Petrus Sabbatius Justinianus”
» (no you will not need to know how to spell that)
– Adopted by uncle, Emperor Justin
• Ruled 527- 565 AD
• Married a peasant –T____________
Empress T________
»Advised J_______ on major decisions
»Improved women’s rights and laws
protecting women
»Riots: Inspired Justinian to build the
___________ ____________
Empress T________
»Advised J_______
on major decisions
»Improved
women’s rights
and laws
protecting women
»Riots: Inspired
Justinian to build
the Hagia Sophia
Age of Justinian
• Justinian’s C_ _ _
• Organized collection & explanation of Roman
laws used by the Byzantine Empire
• Byzantine Culture
– Blended G_ _ _ _, R_ _ _ _, & C_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
influences
– Byzantines preserved works of Ancient Greece and
Rome that are used to spark Renaissance
• Empire declined after Justinian’s death
A Religious Dispute
• Most Byzantines were C___________
• Beliefs of Roman and Byzantine Christians grew apart
1. Rome: Pope
Constantinople: 4 Patriarchs
Byzantine Patriarch outlawed the use of Icons
I_____- paintings of saints and holy figures that
Christians prayed to
2. Pope Leo IX & Patriarch Michael Cerularius
excommunicated each other
3. Language
• West: L _ _ _ _
4. Geography
Why?
East: G _ _ _ _
Religious Disputes
• The Schism- split in the Christian Church
in 1054 that created 2 forms of Christianity
1. The Roman Catholic Church in the West
with the ________ as the leader
2. The Eastern Orthodox Church in the
East with the _____________ as the
leaders
A Second Golden Age
• (900-1000: Byzantines
experienced a final period of
greatness)
• Basil II– ruled at this time
– militant leader
– worked for the middle class citizens greatest leader since
Justinian
• (Trade was good, population increased,
strong period of creativity, Empire gained back some lost
territory)
The Fall of Constantinople
• 1100- Turks had taken Asia Minor
• 1171- Trade war w/ Venice
• 1200s- Christian Crusaders attacked and
ran the city
• 1261- Byzantines took control back
• 1453- Constantinople finally fell to the
Turks *******************