December 5th-9th
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Presentations
The Byzantine Empire -Gabes group
Questions
Describe Justinian's impact during this time
What is a code
Why did the two sides split and form new churches?
How did the plague start?
How did the Plague make the byzantine empire vulnerable to attacks?
The Start of the Byzantine Empire
The Roman Empire was split into East and West in 395 AD
The East became known as the Byzantine Empire
Capital was Byzantium
Then changed to Constantinople
Today’s Istanbul
Justinian
Uncle was Justin I, a past emperor of Constantinople
Became the new emperor in 518
Gained the Title of Caesar
Sent Belisarius to reclaim North Africa, and then later Rome
Belisarius
Took a small force to retake North Africa from the Vandals
His victory there made Justinian then send him to take back Rome and Italy from the Ostrogoths
After this, Rome charged hands 6 times in 16 years
Byzantine Empire
Their politics were brutal
Livef ni constant fear of assassination
Out of the 88 Byzantine Emperors
Life in the New Rome
Justinian set up a panel of legal experts to regulate Byzanium’s increasingly complex society
The panel went through 400 years of Roman law
Justinian code
After the Justinian code was completed the code contained four parts
A code is a general system of laws
Even though justinian himself died his code went on in the Empire for 900 years
Constaninople
Justinian rebuilt the crumbling fortifications of Constantinople, his workers constructed a 14-mile store wall
Constantinople was the capitol city of the empire
Also built a lot of churches and other big building (hospitals and schools)
The Church Divides
Split due to
Lack of communication
Political conflicts
Different Beliefs
Roman Catholic Church
Eastern Orthodox Church
The Great schism - when the catholic church split into 2
Roman catholic
Services were in latin
The pope has authority over bishops
The pope claims authority over kings and emperors
Priests may not marry
Divorce is not allowed
Eastern Orthodox
Services in Greek or local laungages
The patriarch and other bishops head of church
The emperor claims
Priest may marry
Slavs are a ethinic group in russia and they choose eastern europe
The Fall of the Empire
Lasted 100 years after rome fell
After Justinians death his successcors took over and were in big debt so they taxed the citizens badly
There were death riot on his death dealing with religion and politics
The also lost the holy land Syria to the muslim armies along with eygpt and north africa
The Plague
May have started from rat from India ships carrying the bubonic plague
Got to the point of where it was killing 10000 people a day
This made the Byzantine empire weak
Attacks on Byzantine EMpire
Some of the factors why they fell was the death of justinian, plague and invasions (russia, muslims, and many others)
Russia
Questions
Describe the Rise of the Russian Empire
Birth
Tribes of Slavic Farmers/Traders
No political unity
West Ural Mountains- seperation of Asia and europe
Swamps/Forest/and Plains
Dnieper, DOn, Volga river trade
800’s
Small groups of Varangians, or Rus
Down from North
Likely Vikings
Built forts along rivers
(Russia comes from “Rus”)
The Slavs invited the Viking chief Rurik to be their king
Novgorod first city
Valdimir
Vladimir Sviatoslavich
Considered change to Christianity
Sent groups to observe Religions
Islam, Judiasm, and Western Christianity
Religion
After being told of Byzantine Empire, he converted
All of subject also converted
Baptized in Dnieper River
Vladimir import it to his teachers and had control ove rht church
Klevs Power and Decline
Vladimir was the ruler and led the way to Kievs power
He expanded his state west into poland and north almost to baltic sea
He son came to power after his death
Built the first library in kiev
He married off his sisters and daughters to other princes of western Europe which help forge alliances and trade
With him spliting all his power to all of his son and that lead to the downfall of this city
The Crusades were took over and distrupting trade
The Mongol Invasions
Horsemen from Asia
Slashed their way to Russia
THey treated them well just said two things dont rebel and be useful
Russians started to rebel against each
Russia Breaks free
Moscow was first founded
Crude log walls
Had a great line of princes
Mongols gave Czar power then it back fire
Turkish Empire
Question
Describe the impact of the Seljuk Turks on Asia/Europe
Describe the impact that the mongols had on Asia/russia
By Turkey
Abbasids fall
Muslim empire that ruled Eypgt, Morocco, Thunsia, and parts of persia
Very powerful but they struggled to maintain control of their empire
Lost control of Eygpt after losing Morocco, Tunsia and parts of persia
Persian armies went to the Abbasid capitol and overthrew the Abbasid ruler (Caliph)
The Conquering Selijuks
Chinese said that there were these people called Tu-Kiu living west of their borders
They said that the Tu-Kui were the Turks
Towards the 20th century the turks began to convert to islam and moving to the weekended Abbasid Empire
Turkish groups were known as the Sejuks
The sejuks grew in number and strength
Tehe Turks secure persian support
Shortly after conquering the persian, sejuk rulers accepted the suport of the persian empire
Even formoer persian had lead roles in the turkish empire
The turk adopted persian as the laugngaage of culture and aadopted features of the persian way of life
The turks
tURKS- were nomads travel from place to find fresh pasture for their livestock
Rode horses and carried their goods on 2 humped camels
Herded goats and sheep
Turkish Slave Skills and Responsibilities
The abbbasids wanted the turks for their military skills
The addasids bought turkish childeren for slaves and to train for their soldier
The abbasids like the turk because of theis
Malik shah
Greasted leader for sejuk
The built the great masjid-i-Jame in isfahan
Could be cruel by blinding his brother for punishment
Supported architectures and artist
Seljuks and Crusaders
After malik died the empire split and east became more vulnerable and west became stronger and this led to crusades
9 major ccrusades all together first one won by the christians and the rest by the islams
It occured becasue the roman catholic church releasing the land to christianity
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