Byzantine+Empire

=__Byzantine Empire__=

Location of constantipnople

 * Protection of the eastern frontier
 * Distance from Grmanic invasions in westernepire
 * Crossroads of trade
 * Easly fortified site on a peninsula bordering natural habor

Role of constantipnople

 * Seat of the Byzantine Empire until ottoman conquest
 * Preserved classical Gre co-Roman culture
 * Council of Micaea in 325

Byzantine Emperor Justinian

 * A codifcation of roma law
 * Reconquest of fomer roman territories
 * Expansion of trade

Art and Architerture

 * Inspiration provieded by christain religion and imperial power
 * Icons- religious images
 * Mosores in public and religious structures
 * Hagia Sophia- a Byzantine domed church

Byzantine Culture

 * Cre co- Rome tradition
 * Greek language
 * Greek Orthodox christiaity
 * Byzanine libraries

Great Schism 1054

 * Wester chruch
 * centered in Rome
 * language latin
 * Easter church
 * centered in Constatinople
 * language Greek

Division wetern and eastern churches

 * Athority of the pope eventually accepted iin the west
 * Practices sush as celibacy eventually accepted in the west

Influence on Eastern Europe and Russia
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 * Trade with teh Kiev
 * Adoption of Orthodox Christianity
 * Adoption of greek alphalpet to the slovic laguages
 * St. cysit (cyrillic aphabet)

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 * Byzantine Empire Hangman Game**

THE GROWTH OF THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE many leaders of the byzantine empire hoped to recieve the glory and power of the Roman Empire. The emperor Justinian, who ruled from A.D. 527 to A.D. 565, led the Byzantines in this revial Justians accomplishments made this one of the greatest periods in Byzantine history

The Justian Code: One of the Byzantine's greatest contributions to civilization was the preservation od Roman law. In about A.D. 528 Justian ordered his scholars to collect the laws of the Roman Empire. This collection was known as the Justian Code.



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 * Byzantine Empire Pics**


 * By : Ronnie Bynum**