Monday, tuesday- work day
wednesday-
Byzantine empire-
Justinian
- Uncle was Justin 1st, a past emperor of Constantinople
- Became emperor in 518
- Gained title of caesar
- Sent belisarius to reclaim North Africa, and then later Rome
Belisarius's take back
- Small force to Africa from Vandals
- His victory made him go to take back Rome and Italy from Ostrogoths
- After this, rome changed hand 6 times in 16 years (keeping rome and losing it)
Byzantine emperors
- Politics were brutal
- Constant fear of assassination
- out of 88 emperor 29 died violently and 13 abandoned the throne to live in a monastery
Life in the new Rome
- Justinian set up a panel of legal experts to regulate byzantium's increasingly complex code
- The code is a general system of laws
- After he died, his code still lasted for 900 years
Constantinople
- Workers constructed a 14 mile stone wall are the capital city of the empire
- Justinian also built alot of churches and schools
The church divides
- Lack of communication-too far apart could not communicate about beliefs
- Political conflict-They started having different beliefs
- different beliefs
- Split into roman catholic, Eastern Orthodox
- In 1054 officially split
Fall of the empire
- lasted 1000 years after rome
- after Justinian's death his successors took over and were in debt
- there were riots
- there were fights about religion
- They had lots of foreign attacks like with the muslims
The plague
- May have started from a rat on a india ship carrying the bubonic plague
- got to the point where it killed 10,000 people a day
- took 150 years to end
Attacks
- Attacked by russians, muslims, turks and many others
QUestions
- Describe Justinian's impact during this time?
- why did the two side split?-
- What is a code?
- How did the plague start?
- How did the plague make the byzantine empire vulnerable to foreign attacks
thursday- we presented (russia)
Friday
Turkish empire-
Abbasids fall
- Muslim empire that ruled egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, and parts of persia
- Very powerful but struggled to maintain control of their empire
- Persian armies went to the abbasids capital and overthrew the abbasid ruler (caliph)
Conquering seljuks
- Chinese said that there were these people called Tu-Kiu living wet of their borders
- they sad that the Tu-Kiu were the Turks
The conquering Turks
- Turkish groups were known as the Seljuks
- The Seljuks grew in number and strength
- Towards the 20th century turks began to convert to islam and move to the weakened abbasid empire
The turks secre persian support
- Shortly after conquering the persian, seljuk rulers accepted the support of the persian empire
- Even former persian had lead roles in the turkish empire
- The Turks adopted Persians way of life
The Turks
- The turks were nomads- traveled from place to place to find food for their livestock
- Herded goats and sheep
- lived in tents
Turkish slaves
- The abbasid wanted the Turks for their military skills
- THe abbasids bought turkish children for slaves to train for their soldiers
- THe abbasids liked the Turks because of their skill and they were very loyal
Malik shah
- One of the greatest leaders of the seljuk
- He build the Great Masjid-I-Jame in isfahan
- Shah could be a very cruel man- blinded his brother as punishment
- Supported architects and artists
Seljuks and the Crusaders
- Malkic Shau died in 1092
- Seljuk Empire is broken up into small kingdoms
- western powers (roman catholic church) Grows stronger
The first crusade
- first crusade in 1095
- Pope urban 2 orders christians to drive turks out of anatolia
- the west launched a counterattack on the seljuk and other muslim empires
- THe military campaigns were known as the crusades
- The crusaders(Franks) control holy land until 1130 (muslims grow)
- Jihad (holy war)
- Back and forth attacking until muslims grew stronger
End of crusade
- Egypt defeats the mongols
- Turks and muslim forces siege Acre and drive out the crusaders out of the holy land
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