2. Why was the capture of Constantinople, in 1453, significant for both the Ottoman Turks…
When Justinian became emperor in 527, he wanted to build a new Rome by incorporating the ancient Roman Empire. He made Constantinople the capital of the Byzantine Empire and kept the Roman culture along with the Greek culture for more than a thousand years. Justinian helped rebuild the Roman Empire by the many contributions he gave to the empire; he was able to rule a well-structured empire.…
It centers itself around the capital, Constantinople. The Byzantines continued to employ a traditional Roman style of government and law. Byzantine Emperor, Justinian attempted to restore the Roman Empire to its prior status by trying to recover the western portions of the Empire.…
Also, Basil strengthened the military and conquered regions in western Anatolia (now Turkey) and southern Italy. Indeed, the empire became almost as powerful as it had been under Justinian’s rule. 4. How did the Crusades affect the Byzantine Empire?…
How did the Byzantine empire differ from the Western Roman Empire? The Byzantine Empire was different in many ways from the Western Roman Empire, in that the leader of the Byzantine Empire has more power, not only does he rule the kingdom, he also was head of the church. Another difference between the two empires is, wile the western empire still spoke Latin, the peoples of the Byzantine Empire spoke Greek. There were many differences between the religious practices of both empires but the largest few being that they preached in Greek, the priests in the churches could also marry unlike the Western Empire. The churches in the Byzantine Empire additionally, created large mosaics that they used to convey their image of God.…
A major Macedonian building was the Hagia Sophia (Holy Wisdom), having many mosaics, which were the main form of Byzantine art. The Hagia Sophia was constructed in the 530s, and became the center of religious life in the empire. It still stands today in Istanbul, Turkey. A threat to the Byzantine Empire was the Bulgarian Empire, but they defeated this threat in 1014 CE. Constantinople was still an important city for religion everywhere, and the capital of the empire.” Cohn closed his statements and the interview by summarizing the fall of the empire. “The tax system was so efficient that the Empire lasted for over one thousand years. Despite this, the Byzantine Empire had a reputation for luxury and corruption. Westerns with different faiths could not be contained, as they were warriors and traders. The Byzantine Empire was not accepted as they had a different faith than most, so they became a target in the Crusades. The Crusaders looted Constantinople in 1204 CE. For a long time after that, the empire was ruled by monarchs. In 1243, they were defeated by the Moguls. Areas of their territory kept getting taken over and captured, leading to their slow…
Both Persia and Greece were very influential during 600 BCE-600 CE. They were both very similar and different in their political and economical areas, and they also had similarities in differences in their social life. Politically, Persia and Greece were very different in the way that Persia was ruled by a king while in Greece each polis was governed separately. Now economically, Greece depended on imported goods, and Persia was mainly an agriculture based economy. Their social lives also had similarities and differences, but one of the main similarities was the males role in daily life.…
The Byzantine Empire was basically the continuation of the Eastern part of the Roman Empire after the Western side collapsed. This civilization took everything from the Roman Empire to include traditions, institutions, and even called themselves “Romans” Which was located at Constantinople.it must be noted that this Empire continued its run for about a millennium, but would fall in 1453 after Constantinople was attack by the Ottoman Empire and conquered. However, before this collapsed, one might wonder how this civilization survive for this long and what were they most important achievements? In this paper I will try my best to answer these questions and shed a brighter light on this civilization known as the “Byzantium”.…
One day, in the far away land of Olympia, lived two gods named Zeus and Poseidon. Zeus and Poseidon are brothers, but Poseidon prefers not to be seen by other mortals or gods. Therefore, he was already mad Zeus for bringing him to Olympia, but little did they both know that it was about to all go down hill. Just before Zeus pulled Poseidon out of the ocean, he saw a mortal girl named Ara. Ara is a very beautiful woman and most people are attracted to her. Besides the fact that Zeus has already had three affairs, he had to win over the heart of Ara. That leaves us where we are now with Zeus and Poseidon. Poseidon is now out of the ocean and refused to go into town.…
Byzantine Empire : As the first Christian Emperor of Rome, Constantine claimed to have divine favor for his rule. He defined Christian practices and intervened in theological disputes. This policy came to be known as "caesaropapism", whereby the emperor ruled as both secular lord and religious leader. This tendency to exalt Byzantine emperors as absolute rulers of both state and church was reinforced by the appearance of Justinian in the 6th century. He was an energetic, capable ruler with an energetic, capable wife called Theodora, a very religious Christian.…
In the sacred text “In The Beginning: Genesis” Moses writes about Adam, Eve, God, and the serpent. The serpent tempts Adam and Eve to eat the fruit from the forbidden tree of knowledge that God told them not to eat from. In the epic poem “The Odyssey” Homer writes about Odysseus going to fight in the Trojan War and his twenty year journey to make it back home.When the characters got tempted, what they wanted looked good at the time, but when they pursued it, they turned out to have consequences.…
Before Justinian wrote Justinian’s Code, the Byzantine Empire followed all of the Roman laws. Over the years, so many laws had been made, some of them contradicting each other. Justinian got rid of all the unnecessary and confusing laws. The Byzantine Empire’s military was another notable part of their government. The majority of emperors who seized the throne by force did so by virtue of their skill in battle and were mostly outstanding military generals. The army consisted of mostly footmen, with some heavily armed highly skilled cavalry. Although the Byzantine Empire’s army was far from mediocre, the main reason Constantinople wasn’t conquered for such a long time was because of the massive fortifications around it, erected by Constantine I. Constantinople was surrounded by massive stone walls, with holes out of which the defenders could shoot arrows while remaining unharmed. Some other Byzantine cities had similar fortifications around them, but none were as impregnable as Constantinople. The Byzantine Empire also possessed an explosive liquid called Greek…
away to have a standing Army. In return the Empire needed to make a deal with the Normans whom were somewhat consequently always attacking Byzantium. This would have caused a problem in that in that the pact that Michael VII made had thinned the troops. The standing army that he had instituted during peace times sent these troops to other areas of the vast empire, areas of less importance. This left Constantinople unprotected and open for an outside attack to happen.…
treachery among the Gods that is so prevalent in the Iliad, is nowhere to be…
Greece & Turkey Two sides of a sea, as if the siblings. The two countries who eat dinner together with different foreign language. Two countries who lived together for centuries even the countries separate from each other their cultures their common heritage is their olive trees.…