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    American Mosaic

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    American Mosaic Mosaic is a decorative art form that creates new images from many small pieces of dissimilarly colored materials. Through creative arrangement of different jumbled pieces‚ Mosaic artists can achieve a brand-new image that delivers greater beauty and more meaningful than the sum of all the pieces that makes up the mosaic. Similar to mosaic‚ many countries are consists of citizens with different racial and cultural backgrounds. As most people known that the most unique country is

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    Justinian I and His Codification of Roman Law Justinain I‚ whose full name was Flavius Justinianus in Latin‚ was the Byzantine Emperor from 527 to 565. He is commonly known as Justinian the Great‚ who had spent all his reign restoring the greatness of the Byzantine Empire and trying to reconquer the western half of the Roman Empire. His achievements could be seen in the Roman law‚ the administrative system of the Empire‚ religion‚ literature‚ architecture and some other fields‚ enough to prove his

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    amplitudes. The relationship between the church and the wall paintings and mosaics are infinitely intertwined. Frescoes were often made during the late Medieval Period and the Renaissance‚ particularly in Italy. Frescoes (wall or ceiling paintings done on wet plaster) are found frequently in the catacombs. Most depict biblical subjects that reflect the Christian hope of salvation and eternal life (Cunningham‚ Reich 141). Mosaics on the other hand‚ consist of many small pieces of colored glass assembled

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    to Study the Byzantines? The Byzantine Empire and its capital city of Constantinople thrived for more than one thousand years and helped shape the history of the modern world. The Byzantines have been largely ignored in classrooms across the nation. Key reasons to study the Byzantine are their religious influence‚ preservation of literature‚ and defense tactics. The question as stated is‚ what is the Primary Reason to Study the Byzantine? The primary reason to study the Byzantine is their political

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    Circa 1000 C.E‚ the Catholic Kingdoms‚ Byzantine Empire‚ and Islamic Caliphates kept their own beliefs and ideas for land to strive successfully. What lied in Western Europe was the properties of the Catholic Kingdom. For the Church and existing Christians‚ the most important thing was to get as many people to convert and become part of the religion. Families all over and the people of the villages were focused strongly on God and their everyday lives based off the teachings of the Church (Ellis

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    This is an extract from: Byzantine Garden Culture edited by Antony Littlewood‚ Henry Maguire‚ and Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn published by Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection Washington‚ D.C. © 2002 Dumbarton Oaks Trustees for Harvard University Washington‚ D.C. Printed in the United States of America www.doaks.org/etexts.html The Vienna Dioskorides and Anicia Juliana Leslie Brubaker Dioskorides of Anazarbos‚ a physician and pharmacologist‚ wrote the Materia medica

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    The Dark Ages: The Justinian Code The Corpus Juris Civilis referred as the Code of Justinian was issued from 529 to 534 to the order of Justinian I‚ Eastern Roman Emperor. The work had three parts which was the Code‚ the Digest or Pandects‚ and the Institutes. The Code was a compilation that was selection of enactments to date. The Digest or Pandects ‚ is an encyclopedia which is basically based on mostly extracts from the writing of the Roman Jurists. The third part was the Institutes

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    The Etruscan‚ Roman and Byzantine Utilized Art Since the beginning of the first human civilization‚ we see how early human put emphasis on historical events‚ especially those moments that were important for their life. During the paleolithic era‚ primitive people used to paint cave after a productive and successful hunting in order to immortalize the memory of such great even. Thousands of years later new and different civilizations like the Etruscan‚ Roman‚ and Byzantine with more complex and developed

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    The Byzantine Empire’s government was a dynastic monarchy‚ although occasionally an usurper would seize the throne. They called their ruler the basileus (a Greek word meaning emperor). Christianity was the official religion. Religion was closely tied to the government‚ as the basileus was often believed to be god’s representative on Earth and religious leaders had a lot of power. The emperor was in fact crowned by the Patriarch of the church. The Byzantine Empire was divided into sections called

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    Byzantine Empire vs. Roman Empire After the split of the Roman Empire‚ the Byzantine Empire bloomed in the east. Its greatest ruler‚ Justinian‚ made it his main goal to regain the lost territory and power of Rome. Although the Byzantine Empire was initially a part of the Roman Empire‚ there are many similarities and differences found in their creation‚ their interpretations of Christian beliefs‚ and their decline. Rome was supposedly founded in 753 BC by the twins Romulus and Remus in Italy

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