Byzantines

(Becomes the New Rome)

(500-1500)

A New Rome in a New Setting

We see their are of the eastern Roman Empire Diocletian split the empire with the emperor in the west
and east and the west will weaken and fall and the east will stay in tact and keep up the culture of the
Roman Empire for the next 1,000 years Justinian wants to bring about a new Roman Empire after him
we see some built changes coming to the empire under him we see a l;anger empire were we see him
conquer parts of Italy Spain and this is the largest the empire is going to be

In 527, a Byzantine
Nobleman named
Justinian became
emperor of the
Eastern Empire
_______________
Justinian
A New Line of

Caesars

The empire was

officially

divided in 395

but the east

continued to

see themselves

as Roman

Justinian retook

Italy, Africa, and

Spain under one

empire

The Absolute Power of

the Emperors
These emperors ruled with
absolute power controlling the
state and Church
Building the New Rome
-They separated from Rome:
they spoke Greek and set up
the Greek Orthodox Church
-Between 528-533, a body of
civil law was set up known as
Justinian code
___________________________
-This code answered legal
questions such as marriage,
slavery, property, inheritance,
womens rights and crime. It
served the empire for 900 years
They start focusing on the language of the territory around the them which is Greek this is were we see the rise to the Greek Orthodox Church and
the Greek Orthodox religion they spoke Greek around this time he will create a new law code known as th ejsutian code this is not anything new a
lot of the same law dea that we have seen in the past the most important hing about it is this will remain the law code until the end of the Roman
Empire

Creating an Imperial Capital

-Built the Church of

Hagia Sophia
________________
Holy Wisdom
Building
fortifications to the
city including 70
feet tall walls and
moats
He also built baths,
aqueducts, law
courts, schools and
hospitals

This is one of the most modern and buetiful cites in the

world this is one of the church's here and today it is
actually a mosc this was one of the most modernized
cities in the nown world

Preservation of
Learning

The dark ages need to be thankful for the Byzantine merrier because there
was no learning or developing of education there was not learning the west
but in the eas t this is were we start to see a development in the language
the student will start to learn math science and other thing s the east will
also go through problems and the east will have the bubonic plague this
makes them weak

-Students study basic

courses in Greek and
Latin. They also
memorized Homer
Mysterious Plague of
Justinian
-In 542, a plague arrived
killing an estimated
10,000 people a day
-It probably arrived on a
rat infested trip from
India
-The decrease in
population led them to
be exposed to their
enemies

-The
Byzantine used bribes,

diplomacy,
and political marriages

This I were we see the true split between the Easton and western empires
they were rally dierent before this this will be the symbolic split were
they will hate each other after this the schism occurred in 1054

to prevent them from declining

The Church Divides
The split b/w Rome and
Constantinople
In 730, Emperor Leo III banned
the use of icons and the army
broke into Churchs and
Iconoclasts
destroyed icons (___________)
The Pope ordered the
Excommunication
__________________________
(outcast from church) of the
Byzantine Emperor
In 1054, matters b/w the pope
and patriarch excommunicated
Schism
and caused a _____________=
or split between Roman
Catholic (West) and Orthodox
Church (East)