1. The Mysteries Revealed
The Byzantine Empire
The Mysteries Revealed

2. Roman Empire Split (285 AD)

3. The “New Rome” Constantine Moved Capital to Byzantium (330 AD) Renamed
Constantinople
Impact:
Center of Empire (Trade,
Politics, Culture)
The Western Half, Rome
Collapse of Western Half (480)
1,100 years (400s-1400s)

4. The “New Rome”

5. Legalization of Christianity
Atheism
Polytheism
Emperor Constantine
Battle of Milvian Bridge (312 AD)
Edict of Milan (313 AD)
Religious toleration NOT
making it official

6. The Byzantine Empire (at its height)
Roman Byzantine

7. Same Old Rome? Some of same territory Carried on Roman culture,
gov’t, and religion
Called themselves Romans
Moved Capital
Spoke Greek, not Latin
Less dominant in the area

8. Key Figures Justinian the Great Empress Theodora Belisarius
Emperor (500s)
Empress Theodora
Wife of Justinian
Belisarius
Justinian’s General
John of Damascus
Monk who wrote in favor of icons
Cyril and Methodius
Spread Christianity to the Slavic peoples (800s)
Anna Comnena
Princess, Doctor, Historian (1000s-1100s)

9. Hagia Sophia Justinian (537 AD) Cathedral then Mosque Now Museum
Best example of Byzantine Architecture

10. Catholic Orthodox West, Latin East, Greek
Church Schism
Iconoclast Controversy (700s-800s)
Emperor Leo III
Destroying Icons
Separated East and West Churches more
Power of the Pope
Patriarch in Constantinople (under the Emperor)
Pope in Rome (under NO king)
The Great Schism (1054)
Catholic Orthodox
West, Latin East, Greek

11. Decline of the Byzantine Empire
Justinian’s Plague
500s, killed thousands
Attackers
Europeans: Barbarians and Crusaders
Muslims/ Ottoman Turks
Internal Politics
Civil Wars

12. The Rise of the Ottoman Empire
Turks
Muslim, Mongols
Conquest of Constantinople (1453)
Sultan
King of the Ottomans
Mehmet the Conqueror
Constantinople and parts of Europe
Suleiman the Magnificent
Powerful Sultan of the 1500s