Unit three chapter 13. Traditions and Encounters.
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| 574865461 | Golden Horne | Natural harbor. | |
| 574865462 | Bosporus | Strait of water leading form the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmara and beyond to the Dardanelles, Aegean Sea, and the Mediterranean. | |
| 574865463 | Byzantion site of | New capital, Constantinople, "city of Constantine." Built becaues the eastern Med was wealthier and more productive of the Roman empire because of relocation being able ot watch of the Sasanid empire in Persia, and Germanic peoples by Danube R. | |
| 574865464 | Constantinople fell into who in 1453 | Ottoman Turks, who renamed it Istanbul. | |
| 574865465 | The seventh and eigth centuries the southern regoing fell into | Arab Muslim | |
| 574865466 | Challenges for the eastern half of the Roman empire were | The Sasanid dynasty in Persia and invasions frrom migratory peoples from north and east. Migratory peoples like Germanics were big threats because the empire did not have resources to respond strong. | |
| 574865467 | Used what kind of rule | Tightly centralized, concentrating power on the emperor. | |
| 574865468 | Caesaropapism | Whereby the emperor rules as secular lord but also played active and prominenet role in ecclesiastical affairs. | |
| 574865469 | Justinian was known as | The sleepless emperor, with his wife theodora to be a sagacious advisor, offering advice. | |
| 574865470 | Hagia Sophia was | Church that became a museum an example of CHristian architecture. Thought to have made cures to help the ill. | |
| 574865471 | Corpus iuris civilis | Body of the Civil Law, Roman law. Which was Justinian's code. | |
| 574865472 | In 533 | Justinian sent Belisarius to milimtary campaigns reconstituting most of the classical Roman empire. | |
| 574865473 | Justinian withdrew because | He devoted his attention to the western Mediterranean, while the Sasanids threatened Byzantium from the east, adn Slavic from the north. | |
| 574865474 | By the mid- seventh century | Arab peoples because of their Islamic faith conq the Sasanid empire adn overran some of Byzantine empire, gotten under Islamic rule. | |
| 574865475 | Used the weapon | Greek fire made of sulphur, lime, and petroleum. | |
| 574865476 | Theme system placed | An imperial province under the jurisdiction of a general, who had responsiblityfor its military defense and civil administration. It enabled forces to moblize quickly and resist further Islamic advances. | |
| 574865477 | Basil II known as | Basil the BulgarSlayer made the kingdom of Balkans. | |
| 574865478 | Largest city in Europe | Constantinople. | |
| 574865479 | Strongest economy and society when | The empire supported large class of free peasants who owned small plots of land. | |
| 574865480 | Most important addiction to the economy was | Silk. | |
| 574865481 | Bezant | Gold coin. | |
| 574865482 | Silk and porcelain came from | China. | |
| 574865483 | Spices from | India and sw Asia. | |
| 574865484 | Most famous sculpture | Gold fountain in the shape of a pineapple that spouted wine. | |
| 574865485 | Housing in Constantinople | Women lived in sperate apartments and had no male visitors, not go to parties. | |
| 574865486 | Hippodrome had | Chariot races, the Greens and the Blues had rivalry taht also fought in streets, faded when messed with Justinian. | |
| 574865487 | The language changed from | Latin to Greek. | |
| 574865488 | Drew inspiration from | New Testament composed in Greek, and the philosphy and literature of classical Greece than Rome. | |
| 574865489 | Scholars concentrated on | Humaninites like literature, history, and philosophy. | |
| 574865490 | Council of Nicea | Made by COnstantine that brought together bishops, spokesmen, and leaders form Christian churches to consiter views of Arians. | |
| 574865491 | Alexandria or Arius believed | That Jesus had been a mortal human being, and was a creation of God. | |
| 574865492 | Iconoclasm by Emperor Leo III | Breaking of the icons, destroying religious things prohibited in churches. | |
| 574865493 | Christianity came form | Jewish sources. | |
| 574865494 | St. Basil of Caesarea | Patriarch of Constantinople during the mid-fourth century urged some to adopt reforms that enhanced their effectiveness in asceticism, going to great depths to worship. | |
| 574865495 | Mt. Athos | Site of monasteries, off limit for females. | |
| 574865496 | Issues dividing Christain communities of Constantinople and Rome | Iconoclatic comm were religious and theological, they regarded religious images as perfectly appropriate aids to devotion. | |
| 574865497 | Schism | Relations between partiarch and pope split. | |
| 574865498 | Byzantines called themselves | Romaioi, Romans. | |
| 574865499 | In the eleventh century challenges came from | Normans, Scandinavian people who seized Normandy, and later controlled southern Italy and got Byzantine authorities. | |
| 574865500 | In the twelfth and thirteenth centuries | Normans made crusades, mililtary campaigns to recapture Jerusalem from Muslims. | |
| 574865501 | Saljuqs defeated Byzantine where | Battle of Manzikert. | |
| 574865502 | Loss of Anatolia to Saljuqs meant | Loss of grain, wealth, and military forces. | |
| 574865503 | Saints Cyril and Methodius | Brothers from Thessaloniki in greece. They conducted misssions in Bulgaria and Moravia devising alphabet, the Cyrillic alphabet. | |
| 574865504 | Orthodoz Christianity influenced | Slavic peoples because it helped to explain Christian scriptures and rituals. | |
| 574865505 | Kiev was | Main trade route linking Scandinavia and Byzantium, wealthy and powerful center. | |
| 574865506 | Inspiration of Orthodox church by | Byzantine legal tradition and written law code. |
