1. Unit 3 An Age of Exchange and Encounter: 500 to A.D. 1500
World History
Unit 3
An Age of Exchange and Encounter:
500 to A.D. 1500

2. Chapter 11 Byzantines, Russians, and Turks Interact, 500 - 1500 A.D.
Section 2
Byzantium Becomes the New Rome

3. 11 Byzantines, Russians, and Turks Interact, 500–1500 Time Line 500
CHAPTER
Time Line
850s Byzantine culture spreads to Russia.
1240 Kiev destroyed by Mongols.
500
1500
527 Justinian becomes ruler of Byzantine Empire.
1054 Christianity splits into Roman Catholic and Orthodox branches.
1480 Ivan III ends Mongol control of Russia.

4. Byzantium Becomes the New Rome
Objectives
To describe Byzantine politics and the rise of Emperor Justinian.
To describe Justinian’s achievements, and life in Constantinople.
To characterize Byzantine education.
To identify the causes of the Byzantine Empire’s collapse
To explain why the Eastern and Western churches created two traditions.
Vocabulary: Justianian Code, Hagia Sophia, patriarch, icon, iconoclast, excommunication, schism, Cyrillic alphabet

5. The New Rome Capital Justinian - 527 AD New Rome Constantinople
Constantine AD
Justinian AD
Belisarius
recovered most of empire
‘New’ Caesar
ruled state and church
absolute power
New Rome
Greek not Latin
Justinian Code
single, uniform civil law code
4 parts
serves for 900 years

6. Life in Constantinople
Rebuilding a New Rome
rebuilt fortress-like city
palace
intensive church-building
church and state
Hagia Sophia
Christianity’s most splendid
law courts, schools, hospitals
Hippodrome
chariot races
riots (Theodora)
Education
Greek and Roman literature
Homer, Euclid, Herodotus
girls home schooled

7. Byzantine Decline Justinian’s Plague - 542 AD Attacks Fall
bubonic plague
8-12 years
10,000 deaths a day
Attacks
Germanic tribes in west
Crusades in 1204
Slavs in the north
Russians
Sassanid in east
Islam from the south
Fall
Ottoman Turks in 1453

8. A Church Divided Eastern Orthodox Roman Catholic Cyrillic alphabet
patriarch
heads church with bishops
icons
religious images; banned in east by Leo III
iconoclasts - icon-breakers
restored by Theodora
Roman Catholic
excommunication
Byzantine emperor over icons
1054
pope versus patriarch
schism
split in two churches
Cyrillic alphabet
Saints Methodius and Cyril

9. Byzantium Becomes the New Rome 1
Section 1
Assessment
1. Look at the graphic to help organize your thoughts. List Justinian’s accomplishments as emperor of the New Rome.
Justinian
Conquered most of Italy
and parts of Spain
Rebuilt Constantinople’s
fortifications
Built aqueducts, courts,
schools, hospitals
Rebuilt the Hagia Sophia
Established Justinian Code
Encouraged trade, education
Enlarged his palace

10. Chapter 11 Byzantines, Russians, and Turks Interact, 500 - 1500 A.D.
Section 2
Russians Adapt Byzantine Culture

11. Russians Adapt Byzantine Culture
Objectives
To summarize the Slavic, Greek, and Viking roots of Russia and Russian culture.
To describe the rise and fall of the principality of Kiev.
To explain how the Mongol invasions united Russia and empowered Moscow.
Vocabulary: Slavs, boyars, Olga, Vladimer, Yaroslav the Wise, Alexander Nevsky, czar

12. Slavic and Greek Cultures
Slavs
people from Black Sea forests
farmers and traders
Varangians (Rus)
Vikings from Scandanavia
boyars - nobles
Novgorod
1st important city
Kiev
trade with Byzantines
Christianity
Princess Olga
1st to convert
Vladimir - 989
Kievan Christian conversion

13. Kievan Russia Yaroslav the Wise - 1019-54 Kievan Decline
Vladimir’s son
legal code for property / commerce
Kievan Decline
division of empire
Crusade’s impact
Mongol Rise s
Genghis Khan
rule southern Russia 200 years
Khanate of the Golden Horde
Slavic obedience
massive tribute
Alexander Nevsky

14. Moscow Saint Alexander Nevsky Moscow Ivan III - 1462-1505
military hero; church defender
Moscow
founded 1100
Iine of Ivan princeships
Ivan III
1st czar; Caesar
married Byzantine princess
Ugra River
bloodless standoff

15. Russians Adapt Byzantine Culture 2
Section 2
Assessment
1. Look at the graphic to help organize your thoughts.
Explain the effects of Mongol rule in Russia.
Nobles
Church
People
Moscow Princes
Collected tribute;
put down revolts
Tolerated by
Mongols; acted
as link between
Mongols and
Russians
Paid high taxes;
developed a
devotion to icons
Became tax
collectors for
Mongols; gained
control of small
states around
Moscow

16. Chapter 11 Byzantines, Russians, and Turks Interact, 500 - 1500 A.D.
Section 3
Turkish Empires Rise in Anatolia

17. Turkish Empires Rise in Anatolia
Objectives
To describe the rise of the Seljuk Turks and their impact on Persian culture.
To explain how internal problems and foreign attack ended Seljuk power.
Vocabulary: mamelukes, Seljuks, vizier, Malik Shah

18. Rise of the Turks Turks Seljuks nomadic herders, horsemen mamelukes
fierce warriors
mamelukes
Turkish military slaves
Abbasid Empire (Persian)
after 945, religious leader only
Seljuks
migrated into Abbasid
Islamic conversion (Shi’a)
capture Baghdad
Anatolia
Battle of Manzikert (1071)
courting of Persians
strong support; influence

19. Seljuk Turks Malik Shah - (1055-1092) Crusades Mongols
last great Seljuk sultan
vizier
prime minister
collection of minor kingdoms
Crusades
1095 Edict
Pope Urban II
1099
capture Jerusalem
1187
Saladin recaptures Jerusalem
Mongols
1200 (Genghis Khan)

20. Turkish Empires Rise in Anatolia 3
Section
Assessment
1. Look at the graphic to help organize your thoughts. List several events in the last 200 years of the Abassid Empire.
756
Spain
breaks
away.
788
Morocco
breaks
away.
800
Tunisia
breaks
away.
809
Parts of
Persia
are lost.
868
Abbasids
lose control
of Egypt.
945
Baghdad
falls to
Persians.