The+Byzantine+Empire+(ag+and+az)

IMPORTANT VOCABULARY FOR THIS UNIT: **  **Excommunication:** the taking away of a persons rights of membership in a christian church. (basically, you're going to hell...)  **Justanian's Code: **  the body of Roman civil law collected and organized by order of the Byzantine emperor around 534  **Hagia Sophia:** the cathedral of Holy Wisdom in Constantinople built by the order of the Byzantine emperor Justanian.  **Patriarch:** a principle bishop in the eastern branch of Christianity.  **Icon:** <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: left; display: block;">a religious image used by eastern Christians. <span style="text-align: left; display: block; color: rgb(0, 183, 255);"> <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 135);">**Cyrillic Alphabet:** <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: left; display: block;">an alphabet for the writing of Slavic languages, devised in the ninth century AD by saints Cyril and Methodius. <span style="display: block; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: left;"> <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 135);">**Pope:** leader of Roman Catholic Church. <span style="text-align: center; display: block; color: rgb(0, 183, 255);"> <span style="text-align: left; display: block; color: rgb(0, 183, 255);">-AG :) <span style="text-align: center; display: block; color: rgb(0, 183, 255);"> <span style="text-align: left; display: block; color: rgb(0, 183, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 183, 255);">**IMPORTANT CONCEPTS FOR THIS UNIT:**
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 * <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 135);">(great) Schism: ** <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: left; display: block;"> a split or division - especially a formal split between the Christian Church. This happened because the pope and [[image:refugee:alph.jpeg width="233" height="210" align="right" caption="The Cyrillic Alphabet"]]the patriarch disagree on divorce and marriage of popes along with other issues <span style="text-align: left; display: block; color: rgb(0, 183, 255);">

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: left; display: block;">The rise of Eastern Orthodox Christianity and Roman Catholicism: <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 135);">-After Russian leaders learned of Christianity, they soon converted, becoming Orthodox Christian. This spread Christianity outside of the borders of the Byzantine Empire.

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: left; display: block;"> The pros and cons of the emperor Justinian <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 135);">-Justinian's poor leadership destroyed the economy of his empire and spread his forces too thin to defend his land. -Justinian also created a fierce empire for a short time which influenced new ideas.

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: left; display: block;"> The history of the Justinian Code and a little about its content <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 135);">-Justinian reformed the laws of the Roman Empire and consolidated them making it easier to understand. He published this code of law for all to see. Some of these concepts of law are still used today.

<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: left; display: block;"> The difference between the old Roman empire and the Byzantine Empire <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 135); text-align: left; display: block;">-The major difference between the old Roman Empire and the Byzantine empire was planned out success. The Roman empire was successful until the "fall" which was really just the moving of the roman empire, although Justinian was a good leader for a little while, he needed to possess more knowledge and leadership. <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: left; display: block;"> The reason for the decline of the Byzantine Empire <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 135);"> -There were many factors which lead to the decline and fall of the Byzantine empire, they were loss of territory, internal discord, and defeats by the crusaders There were also new enemies in this era—the Petcheneg and Seljuk Turks to the east and north, and the Normans and Slavs to the west

<span style="text-align: left; display: block; color: rgb(0, 183, 255);"> -AZ :) <span style="text-align: center; display: block; color: rgb(0, 183, 255);"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 183, 255); text-align: center; display: block;">**PRIMARY SOURCES:** <span style="display: block; text-align: left; color: rgb(0, 183, 255);"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: center; display: block;"> An Exerpt written by Procopius' "The Official History of Emperor Justinian" which explains the important things that Justinian did for his empire. <span style="color: rgb(0, 183, 255); text-align: left; display: block;"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 183, 255); text-align: center; display: block;">**MAP OF JUSTINIAN'S EMPIRE AS OF 550 AD: ** <span style="color: rgb(0, 183, 255); text-align: center; display: block;">-AG :) <span style="color: rgb(0, 183, 255); text-align: left; display: block;">

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1. The Byzantine Empire was created from the Eastern Section of the divided Roman Empire.

2. The Byzantine Emperors (Justinian being the most important) ruled with absolute power

3. the citizens belonged to the Eastern Branch of the Christian Church and shared Roman traditions, but spoke little Latin (instead, speaking Greek).

4. The Justinian Code was created by a panel of ten legal experts. It consisted of The Code, The Digest, The Institutes and The Novellae.

5. Justinian repaired and rebuilt many buildings and the city Constantinople. He also repaired churches, including the most famous Hagia Sophia.

6. In the Byzantine life, merchant stalls lined the streets, which products from all sorts of countries passed through.

7. Empress Theodora saved her husband Justinian with a fiery speech that stopped him from fleeing during the Nika Rebellion.

8. Byzantine families valued education with the basic classes being Greek and Latin grammar, philosophy rhetoric, geometry, history and medicine.

9. After Justinian died of a mysterious plague, the Byzantine empire died down mainly because of attacks from eastern and western enemies.

10. Missionaries from the Orthodox Church traveled north and converted the Slavs which resulted in the present-day Cyrillic Alphabet, which was a way for Slavs to read the Bible.