December 5-9

Monday

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Tuesday

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Wednesday

  • Start Presentations

  • 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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