1. Civilization in Eastern Europe: Byzantium and Orthodox Europe9
Civilization in Eastern Europe: Byzantium and Orthodox Europe

2. Civilization in Eastern Europe : Byzantium and Orthodox Europe
The Byzantine Empire
The Split Between Eastern and Western Christianity
The Spread of Civilization in Eastern Europe
The Emergence of Kievan Rus

3. Civilization in Eastern Europe: Byzantium and Orthodox Europe

4. The Byzantine Empire The Power of the Byzantine Empire
Emperor Constantine
4th century C.E., Constantinople
Empire divided
Capitals at Rome and Constantinople
Greek language official from 6th century

5. The Byzantine Empire under Justinian

6. Justinian's Achievements
Attempts reconquest of Italy
Slavs, Persians attack from east
Building projects
Hagia Sophia
Legal codification

7. Arab Pressure and the Empire's Defenses
Center of empire shifts to east
Constant external threats
Arab Muslims
Bulgars
Defeated by Basil II, 11th century

8. Byzantine Society and Politics
Emperors resemble Chinese rulers
Court ritual
Head of church and state
Sophisticated bureaucracy
Open to all classes
Provincial governors

9. Byzantine Society and Politics
Economic control
Regulation of food prices, trade
Silk production
Trade network
Asia, Russia, Scandinavia, Europe, Africa
Arts
Creativity in architecture

10. The Split Between Eastern and Western Christianity
The Schism
Separate paths
Patriarch Michael
1054, attacks Catholic practice
Mutual excommunication

11. The Empire's Decline Period of decline from 11th century Seljuk Turks
Take most of Asian provinces
1071, Manzikert
Byzantine defeat
Slavic states emerge

12. The Empire's Decline Appeal to West brings crusaders
1204, Venetian crusaders sack Constantinople
1453, Constantinople taken by Ottoman Turks
1461, empire gone

13. The Byzantine Empire,

14. The Spread of Civilization in Eastern Europe
Influence through conquest, conversion, trade
Cyril, Methodius, to Slavs
Cyrillic script

15. The East Central Borderlands
Competition from Catholics and Orthodox Greeks
Catholics
Czechs, Hungary, Poland
Regional monarchies prevail
Jews from western Europe

16. The Emergence of Kievan Rus'
New Patterns of Trade
Slavs from Asia
Iron working, extend agriculture
Mix with earlier populations
Family tribes, villages
Kingdoms
Animistic

17. The Emergence of Kievan Rus'
New Patterns of Trade
6th, 7th centuries
Scandinavian merchants
Trade between Byzantines and the North
c. 855, monarchy under Rurik
Center at Kiev
Vladimir I ( )
Converts to Orthodoxy
Controls church

18. East European Kingdoms and Slavic Expansion, c. 1000

19. Institutions and Culture in Kievan Rus'
Influenced by Byzantine patterns
Orthodox influence
Ornate churches
Icons
Monasticism
Art, literature dominated by religion, royalty
Free farmers predominant

20. Institutions and Culture in Kievan Rus'
Boyars, landlords
Less powerful than in the West

21. Kievan Decline Decline from 12th century Asian conquerors
Rival governments
Succession struggles
Asian conquerors
Mongols (Tartars)
13th century, take territory
Traditional culture survives

22. The End of an Era in Eastern Europe
Mongol invasions usher in new period
East and West further separated

23. Global Connections: Eastern Europe and the World
Byzantine Empire differed from Russia
Byzantium a link in long-distance trade
Russia turned towards the West
Dependent on Byzantium
Decline of Byzantium leads to isolation for Russia