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|Byzantine Empire |

|Constantinople |Justinian |Art/Architecture |Culture |Church |

|LOCATION |LAW |ACHIEVEMENTS |* Continued flourishing of |EASTERN |

|* Located on Bosporus Strait |* Codification of Roman law |* Inspiration provided by |Greco-Roman culture |* Centered in Constantinople |

|* Fortified site on a |(impact on European legal |Christian religion and imperial |* Used Greek language as |* Close to seat of power |

|peninsula bordering a natural |codes): Justinian’s Code |power |contrasted with use of Latin |after Constantinople became |

|harbor |* Single, uniform code of law |* Use of Icons (religious |in the West |capital |

|* Crossroads of trade |containing 5 books: |images) |* Greek Orthodox Christianity|* Use of Greek in liturgy |

|* Distant from Germanic |*The Code |* Mosaics in public & religious | |* Iconoclasts |

|invasions in the western |*The Digest |structures |* Greek & Roman knowledge |* Orthodox |

|empire |*The Institutes |* Hagia Sophia: a Byzantine |preserved in Lib. |* Patriarch |

| |*The Novellae |domed church: “Church of Holy | |* Bishops celibate |

| | |Wisdom” | |* Priests could marry |

|ROLE |RECONQUEST | |BYZANTINE LIBRARIES |WESTERN |

|* Seat of the Byzantine Empire|* Expanded Byzantine empire | |* Students memorized Homer |* Centered in Rome |

|until Ottoman conquest |* Reconquered former Roman | |* Geometry from Euclid |* Farther from seat of power |

|* Preserved classical |territory including most of | |* History from Herodotus |after Constantinople became |

|Greco-Roman culture |Spain | |* Medicine from Galen |capital |

| |* Best general Belisarius | | |* Use of Latin in liturgy |

| | | | |* Use of Icons |

| | | | |* Catholic |

| | | | |* Pope |

| | | | |* All clergy was celibate |

|TRADE EXPANSION | | |GREAT SCHISM |

|* Established large market of trade in middle of the city | | |* Battle b/t East & West |

|* Constantinople centrally located between the Middle East & | | |* Authority of Pope accepted |

|Western Europe | | |in West |

| | | |* Celibacy accepted in West |

| | | |* Controversy over use of |

| | | |icon |

| | | |* Pope & Patriarch |

| | | |Excommunicated each other |

| | | |* 1054 A.D. the Christian |

| | | |church split forever |

|Byzantine Influence on Eastern Europe & Russia |

|TRADE |CULTURE |

|* Trade routes b/t Black Sea and Baltic Sea |* Adoption of Orthodox Christianity |

|* Slavs began trading with the people of Constantinople |* Adoption of Greek alphabet to the Slavic languages by St. Cyril (Cyrillic |

|* 1st unified region of Russia |Alphabet) |

| |* Russian is written with the Cyrillic Alphabet |

| |* Church architecture & religious art |

|Byzantine civilizations influenced Russian and Eastern European civilizations through its religion, culture, and TRADE!!! |

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