Byzantine Influence

The Byzantine Empire was one of the leading civilizations in the world. In 324, Constantine, the first Christian emperor, became the single ruler of the Roman Empire. He set up his Eastern headquarters at the ancient Greek colony of Byzantium in 330. This city, later renamed Constantinople, was also known as "new Rome." It became the capital of the Byzantines after the Roman Empire was divided. The empire made a significant impact on several civilizations with its use of the Greek language and education that extended on for great wealth and the codification of Roman laws along with its imperial system. The Byzantine sect of Christianity, Eastern Orthodox converted numerous Slavic people and promoted the creation of the new art devoted for
Yaroslav, who later became Yaroslav the wise built Churches. Justinian I, the emperor of the Byzantines also created churches such as the famous cathedral, the Hagia Sofia which is meant commemorate St. Sofia and God’s wisdom.Moscow is the center of the Eastern Orthodox church after Constantinople/The Byzantine Empire fell. Constantinople was known as the creator and center of the Eastern Orthodox sect of Christianity because of the conflict between the use of icons, the Orthodox was created due to their use of images for the illiterates, or the people who can’t read or write. Byzantine architects arrived in Kiev to build stone churches with magnificent domes. In the Byzantine empire, churches were commonly built with materials such as stone and were commonly created in a dome shape Early Russia’s religion was influenced by the Byzantine Empire through the spread of Eastern Orthodox
The Russian culture was influenced through the adaption of other cultures such as the Greeks and Romans that the Byzantine’s adapted. The religion was influenced through the spread of Eastern Orthodox Christianity which was created in the Byzantine Empire due to its conflict between the use of icons to illustrate famous stories. The government was influenced by Justinian’s Code which was created to organize the Roman set of laws, the government structure of the Byzantine empire in which is ruled by a monarchy, and its political issues such as foreign invasions from neighboring societies. Although, Russia has numerous qualities that are similar to the Byzantine empire, the establishment has a unique qualities of its own such as being compiled of several ethnic groups such as the Western Slavs, who lived in the marshlands, plains, mountains of east-central-europe. Their cultural ties are with western Europe and their religious ties are with the Roman Catholic Church. Their descendants are the Polish, Czech Slovakian, and the Slovaks. Another group is the South Slavs which are settled in the balkan peninsula. Their descendants are the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, whose language and cultures were both the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox. The Last group