Byzantine Empire
Constantinople
Justinian
Art/Architecture
Culture
Church
LAW
ACHIEVEMENTS * Continued
EASTERN
* Codification of
* Inspiration
flourishing of
* Centered in
Roman law
provided by
Greco-Roman
Constantinople
(impact on
Christian religion
culture
* Close to seat of
European legal
and imperial power
* Used Greek
power after
codes): Justinian’s * Use of Icons
language as
Constantinople
Code
(religious images)
contrasted with
became capital
* Single, uniform
* Mosaics in public use of Latin in the * Use of Greek in
code of law
& religious
West
liturgy
containing 5
structures
* Greek Orthodox * Iconoclasts
books:
* Hagia Sophia: a
Christianity
* Orthodox
*The Code
Byzantine domed
* Greek & Roman * Patriarch
*The Digest
church: “Church of
knowledge
* Bishops celibate
*The Institutes
Holy Wisdom”
preserved in Lib.
* Priests could
*The Novellae
marry
ROLE
RECONQUEST
BYZANTINE
WESTERN
* Seat of the
* Expanded
* Centered in
LIBRARIES
Byzantine Empire Byzantine empire
* Students
Rome
until Ottoman
* Reconquered
memorized Homer * Farther from
conquest
former Roman
* Geometry from
seat of power after
* Preserved
territory including
Euclid
Constantinople
Influence on Eastern Europe
&from
Russia became capital
classical Greco- Byzantine
most of Spain
* History
Roman culture
* Best general
Herodotus
TRADE
CULTURE * Use of Latin in
Belisarius
*
Medicine
from
liturgy
* Trade routes b/t Black Sea and Baltic Sea
* Adoption of Orthodox
Christianity
Galen
* Use
Icons
* Slavs began trading with the people of
* Adoption of Greek alphabet to
the of
Slavic
* Catholic
Constantinople
languages by St. Cyril (Cyrillic Alphabet)
* Pope
* 1st unified region of Russia
* Russian is written with the Cyrillic Alphabet
* All clergy was
* Church architecture & religious art
celibate
Byzantine
civilizations
influenced
Russian
and
Eastern
European
TRADE EXPANSION
GREAT
* Establishedcivilizations
large market of trade
in
SCHISM
through its religion, culture, and TRADE!!!
middle of the city
* Battle b/t East &
* Constantinople centrally located
West
between the Middle East & Western
* Authority of
Europe
Pope accepted in
West
* Celibacy
accepted in West
* Controversy
over use of icon
* Pope &
Patriarch
Excommunicated
each other
* 1054 A.D. the
Christian church
split forever
LOCATION
* Located on
Bosporus Strait
* Fortified site on
a peninsula
bordering a natural
harbor
* Crossroads of
trade
* Distant from
Germanic
invasions in the
western empire