Transcript Today’s goal(s) and how it relates to your class goal.

Today’s goal(s) and how it
relates to your class goal.
Byzantium
 Characteristics
of Byzantium
Heirs of Roman imperial law and government.
 Fundamentally Greek in language and culture.
 Christian state
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Byzantium
 Political
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History
Roman Decadence
Constantine creates “Heaven on Earth”
Administration of the empire
Justinian expands Byzantine world power
Civil wars and concentration in the East.
Byzantium
 Threats
to the Empire
The Arab threat
 Slavic and Bulgar threats
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Byzantium
GOAL
 How
CHECKUP
well have I worked to achieve my goal
for today’s class?
 What can I do for the remainder of the
period to reach my goal(s) for today?
Byzantium
 Byzantine
Renaissance
Arabian civil wars
 Macedonian Warrior-Emperors
 Military Expansion
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Byzantium
 Fall
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of Byzantine Empire (1200-1453)
Corruption
Leadership decay
Economic difficulties (Arab expansion)
Military inferiority (lack of gunpowder)
Fall of Constantinople (29 May 1453)
Byzantium
 Eastern
Orthodox Christianity
Similar to Catholic Church except in its belief the
Patriarch of Constantinople was the leader of the
Church.
 Split with the Western Church (the schism) over
the supremacy of the Bishop of Rome in 1054
and other ecclesiastical issues.
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