1. The Byzantine Empire, Russia and Eastern Europe
How can you tell this is Byzantine architecture?

2. Medieval Times
The time between the fall of Rome in the West and the Renaissance 1000 years)
Byzantine Empire: advanced and prosperous
Western Europe: state of decline and war

3. Constantine
Moved the capital of the Roman Empire to Byzantium (present-day Istanbul, Turkey)
Renamed it Constantinople
Legalized Christianity
The Eastern Roman Empire became the Byzantine Empire
This is the guy that paved the way for the Byzantine Empire, and he did it by-
Who was he?

4. Why was Constantinople chosen as the capital?
center of trade due to its location on a strait between the Black and Mediterranean Seas
And the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire Byzantine Empire and then the Byzantine Empire was?
Why did it become the capital of the Eastern Roman empire and Empire and how did it survive for 1000 years after the Western Empire fell.

5. built on a peninsula fortified with land and sea walls and protected by the Eastern frontier

6. distant from Germanic invasions in West

7. Justinian Conquered many former Roman territories Expanded trade
The most famous Byzantine Emperor revived the idea of a Roman Empire by …What was his name?

8. Codified Roman laws “Justinian’s Code”
These law codes were later adopted by European kings

9. Byzantine Culture Greco-Roman traditions continued to flourish.
Greek was the official language (as contrasted to Latin in the west)

10. Byzantine Art and Architecture
Architecture - domed buildings like the Hagia Sophia (Christian Church)

11. Mosaics: Pictures made up of thousands of tiny glass, ceramic, and stone tiles
Byzantines are also famous for these types of pictures(which can also be Icons) What are they called?

12. Icons: Religious images
Paintings and mosaics often used gold paint; the pictures seemed to glow.
Byzantine art was often painted with gold; the pictures seem to glow

13. Libraries:
Byzantine monks copied and illustrated ancient Greek and Roman works, preserving them for future generations.
How did the Byzantine Empire help to preserve Greco-Roman culture? Like their Western counterparts

15. Schism
Cultural and political differences between the East and the West caused the Christian Church to divide (schism).

16. Western Church Centered in Rome
Latin used in the liturgy (church service)
Pope eventually accepted as the leader
Practices such as celibacy eventually accepted (priests could not marry).
Became known as the Roman Catholic Church

17. Eastern Church Centered in Constantinople Used Greek in the liturgy
Headed by Patriarch
Priests continued to be allowed to marry.
Became known as the Eastern Orthodox Church (Greek Orthodox Church)
During this period of time the Christian church split into two churches. What were they? And the one in East was called - How was this church different fro the church of Rome?

18. Crusades
In 1093, Byzantine emperor Alexis I sent a letter to the West asking for help against the Muslim Turks (Seljuks) who were threatening Constantinople and attacking Christian Pilgrims on their way to Jerusalem.
Alexis I

19. Crusades
Pope Urban (of Rome) called for a crusade or holy war to regain control of the Holy Lands (holy sites in and around Jerusalem).

20. Crusaders Attack
In 1204 Constantinople (a Christian city) was sacked (attacked, burned, and looted) by Christian Crusaders from the West.
The Crusades weakened the Byzantine Empire, but did not put an end to it.
Who’s attacking the walls of Constantionople? But they were Christian. How could this happen?
Did the Crusades put an end to the Byzantine Empire?
What did finally put an end to the Byzantine Empire?
n the years at the beginning of the 13th century the Byzantine Empire, centered at Constantinople, was roiled by still another of its recurring dynastic struggles. Emperor Isaac II Angelus, a somewhat dotty ruler, had been deposed and imprisoned by his brother, who ruled as Alexius III. Dotty though he might be, Isaac II had nonetheless managed to arrange the marriage of his daughter to Philip, King of the German state of Swabia. Following the coup d'etat at Constantinople, Isaac II's son, also named Alexius, fled to the sanctuary of his German brother-in-law. There he and King Philip devised a fateful plan which they submitted formally to the wayward forces of the Fourth Crusade that were wintering at Zara. The proposal had two major elements. If the Crusaders would transport young Alexius to Constantinople, depose his usurping uncle, and install young Alexius as emperor, the new emperor would use his imperial powers to finance the Crusade in its conquest of Egypt. In addition, he would return the Eastern Orthodox Church at Constantinople to the authority of the Pope at Rome. The Crusaders--perhaps motivated as well by an unspoken third incentive, the possibility of plunder--agreed with only token defections. The mighty fleet arrived at Constantinople in June 1203, anchored at the Asian shore across the Bosporus from the Byzantine capital, and demanded that young Alexius be placed on the throne immediately.

21. Ottoman Conquest
Ottoman Turks (Muslims) conquered what remained of the Byzantine Empire in 1453.

22. Constantinople was renamed Istanbul and became capital of the Ottoman Empire
What is Constantinople today?

23. Influence of Byzantine Empire on Russia and Eastern Europe
Russia and Eastern Europe were influenced by the Byzantine Empire through trade and Christian missionaries.
Due to a lack of geographic barriers, they were frequently invaded by nomadic groups

24. Orthodox Christianity Art (icons) and architecture (onion domes).
Cyrillic Alphabet
1. How did the Byzantine Empire influence Russia and Eastern Europe?

25. Saint Cyril
Missionary who adapted the Greek alphabet to Slavic languages of Eastern Europe and Russia (so that they could read the Bible).
Who is this fellow?

26. Cyrillic Alphabet
The Cyrillic alphabet gave the Slavs a written language and helped spread Christianity in Russia and Eastern Europe.

27. Invaders of Russia and Eastern Europe
Vikings
Magyars
Mongols
Ottoman Turks

28. Seafaring invaders from Scandinavia who settled in Russia
Vikings
Seafaring invaders from Scandinavia who settled in Russia
At first they made slaves of the local people (Slavs), but eventually adopted slavic culture.
Now we’re going to play name that invader.

29. set up trade routes along rivers between the Black and Baltic Seas.
sailed to from the Baltic to Constantinople and trading amber and other goods.

30. Magyars Nomadic herders from Central Asia who invaded Europe
Settled in Hungary
How about these guys?

31. Mongols Fierce nomads from Central Asia
Invaded Russia, China, and Eastern Europe and Southwest Asia.
Now who were these invaders?

32. Mongol Empire
Created an Empire

33. Ivan the Great Ivan the Great Freed Moscow from the Mongols
United and expanded the Russian Nation

34. Took the title of “Tsar” (from “Caesar”) Ruled with absolute power
Who is this great leader?

35. Ivan the Great
Appointed himself protector of the Orthodox Church