The Byzantine Empire

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The Byzantine Empire

• Describe Byzantine politics the rise of Emperor
  Justinian.
• Identify causes of the Byzantine Empires
  collapse.
• Why did Eastern Western churches create two
  traditions?

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The Roman Empire Splits

• Eastern Empire Western Empire
• Justinian became Emperor of the Eastern part
  (Byzantine)
• Justinian attacked Rome took over most of Italy
• Justinian had absolute power (Govt. church)

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Justinians Code

• Contained nearly 5,000 laws that were considered
  useful
• The Digest quoted opinions of Romes greatest
  legal authorities
• The Institutes told law students how to use the
  laws
• The Novellae presented laws new legislation
• Code regulated marriage, slavery, property,
  inheritance, womens rights, criminal justice
  (900 years)

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Orthodox Icons
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Hagia Sophia
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Orthodox Churches
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The Empire Falls

• Bubonic plague hits Constantinople
• In one year it killed 10,000 people/day
• Attacked by the Lombards, Slavs, Persians, the
  Turks (Muslims)
• Empire shrank due to constant attacks
• Byzantines used bribes, diplomacy, political
  marriages
• Byzantines fall to the Ottoman Turks (1453)

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The Church Divides

• Western Rome supports the Pope
• Byzantines support the Patriarch (obeys the
  Emperor)
• Byzantines split in 1054 Converted the Slavic
  people to Eastern Orthodoxy
• Missionaries Cyril Methodius developed the
  Cyrillic alphabet
• Put Bible in Cyrillic so all could read it

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The Russian Empire

• Summarize the Slavic, Greek, Viking roots of
  Russia Russian culture.
• Describe the Kievan state.
• Describe Russias rise to independence.

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The Russian Empire