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Chapter 11 section 1: The Byzantine Empire
Do you think that Justinian was trying to control to much area?
Justinian’s code was a huge part of their government, do you think that it was effective?
Taking back Roman
In 533 Justinian sent Belisarius to recover North Africa from Germanic tribes
2 years later Belisarius seized Rome from the Ostrogoths
Ostrogoths
Eastern Germanic Tribe
Rose into power in the area of black sea
Rome
Raced many attacks by other germanic tribes
Rome changed hands six times over the next 16 years
Justinian's armies gained control of nearly all the territory that rome had ever ruled
Almost all of italy and parts of Spain
Byzantine Emperors
Ruled with absolute power
Headed state and church
Politics brutal and often deadly
Emperors were always at risk of assassination
29 of the 88 died violently
13 left to live in monasteries
Life in New Rome
Separate government between east and west
Most Byzantines spoke Greek
Justinian set up a panel of legal experts to regulate their complex society
Justinian Code
Contained nearly 5000 Roman laws
The Digest quoted and summarized opinions of Rome’s greatest legal thinkers about laws. COntained 50 volumes
The Institutes - told students how to use laws
The Novellae
Served as a based of laws for 900 years
Imperial Capital
Public building program
Greatest ever seen in the ROman world
Rebuilt Constantinople
Built a 14 mile stone wall along the city’s coastline
Justinian’s passion
Church buildings
Churches
Hagia Sophia means Holy Wisdom in Greek
In 532 a church of the same name was destroyed in a riot
Hagia Sophia was hailed as the most splendid church after it was rebuilt
Greco-Roman Culture
Valued education, especially classical learning
Studying greece and rome
Basic courses were on Greek and Latin grammar
Philosophy
Constantinople”s Hectic Pace
Main street- Mese
Nika Rebellion- Victory Rebellion
Hippodrome
The Plague of Justinian
Known as the Bubonic Plague
In year 542 the worst year of the plague 10000 people were dying everyday
The plague finally ended around year 700
Great Schism
Also known as the east and west Schism
Divided into the Western Catholic church and Eastern Orthodox church
Political interests and disputes lead to the split
Officially split in 1054
Key Questions
What was the plague called?
What was the great Schism?
What else was the Great Schism known as?
Schism
Why
Two empires
Did things differently
Patriarch and Pope excommunicated each other out of the church ( kicked out)
Religion drove everything
Bruns Key Questions
What impact did Justinian Have on Europe?
What was the great Schism and what impact does it have?
Why did the Byzantine Empire fall?
Outside invaders
Plague
Thursday
Chapter 11 section 2 Russian Empire
Russia’s Birth
West of the Ural mountains
South grasslands
north swampy
Slavs lived in forest
Vikings settled among them
Trade
Slavs and Vikings
Slavs elect Vicking to their their king
Created first major city Novgorod
Oleg moved to Kiev
Slavs and Vikings began to marry/ procreate
Kiev becomes Orthodox
Kievan Princess Olga publicly turned to christianity
Her son grew to power and resisted Christianity
Olga’s grandson rose to power and considered the religion
Only god created this beauty
989 Vladimir had a baptism for all citizens
Power of Kiev
From wooden forts to successful city
Vladimir expanded West into poland and North up to the Baltic sea
1019 Yaroslav The Wise rose
Created legal code that dealt with Crimes against property
Skillfullly married off daughter
Built first library
Decline of Kiev
1054 Yaroslav died made crucial error
Clashes between Christians and Muslims for Holy lands 1095
New threats soon emerged……….Mongols
Mongolian Background
Genghis Khan led the Mongolians out of Middle Asia
Khan means ruler in Mongol
Known for being people who rode horses
Ruthless people
Stretched from Baltic sea to Yellow sea
Mongolian Attack on Kiev
In 1240 Mongols totally destroyed Kiev
Bishop came through Kiev 5 years later
Mongols ruled southern Russia for the next 200 years
Khanate of the Golden Horde
Means kingdom of the Golden camp
Mongolian Rule
Continued their original customs
Absolute obedience and tributes
Catholic church trying together
Princes of city-state often crushed revolts
The Mongolian Curtain
Cut off Russia from rest of the world
Russia Breaks Free
Moscow’s location (Dnieper, Volga, Don)
Ivan I “Johnny Moneybags” Grand Prince
Patriarch of Kiev moves to Moscow
Enlargement of Territory
Rise of an Empire
Ivan III 45 year reign (Ivan the terrible)
Ivan IV took Czar Third Roman Empire
Grandson of Ivan the Great
Foreign Policy (baltic sea)
Death of First Wife (aftermath)
Drove him crazy no one was ruling Russia
Violence issues
Got his name after his death wife
Battle at Urga
Watched Crash Course World History Russia
Key Questions
Describe the rise of the Russian Empire
Friday
Chapter 11 Section 3: Turkish Empires Rise in Anatolia(Turkey)
Key Questions
How did the Seljuks come to power?
Why did the Seljuks confront the Crusaders and the Mongols?
Who is Genghis Khan and what did he accomplish?
Describe the impact the Seljuks had on History?
How did the Seljuks come to power?
Met in the battle of Manzikert
Defeated the byzantines
Victory for them
Took over most of the byzantine
The war was complete and still call it tukey
Why did the Seljuks confront the Crusaders and the Mongols?
Fighting over holyland
Pope Urban II - started it and called on all christians to fight
Who is Genghis Khan and what did he accomplish?
Leader of the Mongols
Conquered more than 12 million square miles
Means “great leader”
Caused over 40,000,000 deaths
His greatest generals were past enemies
Tolerant of all religion
Created one of the first international postal systems in the world
Mongols
Groups of nomadic clans
In the asian steppes
Leveled cities that tried to take them
Land empire
What are the crusades?
Wars between muslims and christians
Seljuks took over the byzantine empire
Abbasids were taken over by Seljuks
The great schism
Eastern orthodox and western catholic
Describe the impact the Seljuks had on History?
Took over turkey and constantinople
Which eventually led to the crusades
The byzantine and roman catholic church worked together to get rid of the muslims in turkey and jerusalem
Describe the impact the Seljuk Turks had on Asia/Europe
- Describe the impact that the Mongols had on Asia/Russia
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