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World Civilizations
The Global Experience
Sixth Edition
Chapter
14
Civilization in Eastern
Europe: Byzantium and
Orthodox Europe
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Civilization in Eastern Europe
I. The Byzantine Empire
II. The Split Between Eastern and Western
Christianity
III. The Spread of Civilization in Eastern
Europe
IV. The Emergence of Kievan Rus
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The Byzantine Empire
• The Power of the Byzantine Empire
– Emperor Constantine
 4th century C.E., Constantinople
 Empire divided
• Capitals at Rome and Constantinople
 Greek language official from 6th century
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The Byzantine Empire under
Justinian
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Justinian's Achievements
• Justinian
– Attempts reconquest of Italy
– Slavs, Persians attack from east
– Building projects
 Hagia Sophia
– Legal codification
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Arab Pressure and the Empire's
Defenses
• Center of empire shifts to east
• Constant external threats
– Arab Muslims
– Bulgars
 Defeated by Basil II, 11th century
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Byzantine Society and Politics
• Emperors resemble Chinese rulers
– Court ritual
– Head of church and state
• Sophisticated bureaucracy
– Open to all classes
• Provincial governors
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Byzantine Society and Politics
• Economic control
– Regulation of food prices, trade
– Silk production
• Trade network
– Asia, Russia, Scandinavia, Europe, Africa
• Arts
– Creativity in architecture
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The Split Between Eastern and
Western Christianity
• The Schism
– Separate paths
– Patriarch Michael
 1054, attacks Catholic practice
– Mutual excommunication
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The Empire's Decline
• Period of decline from 11th century
• Seljuk Turks
– Take most of Asian provinces
– 1071, Manzikert
 Byzantine defeat
• Slavic states emerge
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The Empire's Decline
• Appeal to West brings crusaders
– 1204, Venetian crusaders sack
Constantinople
• 1453, Constantinople taken by Ottoman
Turks
– 1461, empire gone
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The Byzantine Empire, 1000-1100
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The Spread of Civilization in
Eastern Europe
• Influence through conquest, conversion,
trade
• Cyril, Methodius, to Slavs
– Cyrillic script
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The East Central Borderlands
• Competition from Catholics and Orthodox
Greeks
• Catholics
– Czechs, Hungary, Poland
– Regional monarchies prevail
• Jews from western Europe
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The Emergence of Kievan Rus'
• New Patterns of Trade
– Slavs from Asia
 Iron working, extend agriculture
 Mix with earlier populations
 Family tribes, villages
 Kingdoms
 Animistic
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The Emergence of Kievan Rus'
• New Patterns of Trade
– 6th, 7th centuries
 Scandinavian merchants
 Trade between Byzantines and the North
– c. 855, monarchy under Rurik
 Center at Kiev
– Vladimir I (980-1015)
 Converts to Orthodoxy
 Controls church
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East European Kingdoms and Slavic
Expansion, c. 1000
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Institutions and Culture in
Kievan Rus'
• Influenced by Byzantine patterns
• Orthodox influence
– Ornate churches
– Icons
– Monasticism
• Art, literature dominated by religion,
royalty
• Free farmers predominant
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Institutions and Culture in
Kievan Rus'
• Boyars, landlords
– Less powerful than in the West
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Kievan Decline
• Decline from 12th century
– Rival governments
– Succession struggles
• Asian conquerors
• Mongols (Tartars)
– 13th century, take territory
– Traditional culture survives
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The End of an Era in
Eastern Europe
• Mongol invasions usher in new period
• East and West further separated
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