world byzantine empire Flashcards
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| 251691635 | Emperor Constantine | established the Byzantine Empire when the capital of Rome was declining | 0 | |
| 251691636 | Roman empire of the West | fell in 476 CE with the invasion of the Huns under the leadership of Attila | 1 | |
| 251691637 | Capital city | named Constaninople after Constantine and the creation of of the Byzantine Empire | 2 | |
| 251691638 | Geographic location of Byzantine Empire | favorable, made Constantinople rich connected asia and europe through trade aegean sea and black sea connected by the bosporus straits and the dardenelle straits | 3 | |
| 251691639 | Emperor Justinian | ruled from 527 to 565 son of a poor farmer, nephew of Emperor Justin led the Byzantines to revive the glory and power of Roman Empire | 4 | |
| 251691640 | Theodora | supporter of emperor justinian wife and advisor of justinian, daughter of bearkeeper, mistress before wife, influenced justinian(womans rights), made justinian stay in cons. during nika revolt | 5 | |
| 251691641 | Belisarius | justinians most trusted general in the byzantine army and friend contributed in making the byzantine army one of the best | 6 | |
| 251691642 | Nika Revolt | civil war between justinians supporters and those who opposed him in 532 belisarius won the revolt for justinian; j became more respected emperor | 7 | |
| 251691643 | Code of Justinian | one of justinians legacys divided into four sections; two most important= the corpus juris civilis, the digestt | 8 | |
| 251691644 | The Corpus Juris Civilis | section of code of justinian combo of some laws from the twelve tables and new laws made by j. including rights for women: inheritance of propert and retention of children in widowhood | 9 | |
| 251691645 | The Digestt | section of code of justinian an interpretation of the corpus juris civilis by legal experts | 10 | |
| 251691646 | Strong Centralized Form of Gov't w/ Working Bureaucracy | regardless of a strong or weak emperor at the head, the gov't would continue to function due to the bureaucracy(civial gov't workers) | 11 | |
| 251691647 | Use of Diplomact to Avoid War | marriage alliances:marrying of daughters to his enemies entourage made up of secret spies byzantine tactics:getting one's enemies to fight each other and then when the time was right, have the byzantine army join side the b. emperor wanted to win | 12 | |
| 251691648 | Strong Military System | Army: use training books to explain how to fight in war and how to use different types of military straigies during a battle inheritance of land after service navy: greek-fire unique military weapon | 13 | |
| 251691649 | Trade Empire | at the crossroads between europe and asia glabalization of products cultural diffusion | 14 | |
| 251691650 | Iconoclastic Controversy of 787 | major problen within the byzantine empire the display of icons in churches or was it idol worship | 15 | |
| 251691651 | Authority of the Pope of Rome vs. the Patriarch of Constantinople | major problem within the byzantine empire split of the roman catholic church | 16 | |
| 251691652 | Segregation of Jews in Constantinople | major problem within the byzantine empire first time in history due to death of jesus christ and many being bankers | 17 | |
| 251691653 | Invasion by the Seljuk Turks(Muslims) | major problem within the byzantine empire | 18 | |
| 251691654 | Cyrillic Alphabet | byzantine culture created by saints cyril and methodius help preach the word of god to the slavic people | 19 | |
| 251691655 | Mosaics | byzantine culture artwork | 20 | |
| 251691656 | Hagia Sophia | byzantine culture means holy wisdom,bulit during time of justinian first a catholic church and an outstanding architectural achievement became a mosque-today a museum | 21 |