1. AP World History October 19, 2015

2. Warm Up – October 19, 2015 What year did the Roman Empire fall? A. 300 CE B. 420 CE C. 476 CE D. 500 CE

3. Agenda Intro to the Rus & the Byzantines Reminders : Chapter 9 Guided Reading due Wednesday, Chapter 10 due Friday HW – Chapter 9 & 10 Guided Reading

4. Essential Question Why do people break up?

5. AP World History Chapter 9 Civilization in Eastern Europe: Byzantium and Orthodox Europe

7. The Byzantine Empire Once Western Rome fell, the eastern half becomes the Byzantine Empire. Capital of Constantinople Emperor Justinian built the Hagia Sophia and simplified the Roman legal code (Justinian’s Code).

12. Church and State The emperor was considered to be ordained by God. He was head of the church as well as state. Women could and did serve as emperor. They had an elaborate bureaucracy to administer the government.

14. The Great Schism In 1054 a longstanding disagreement came to a head, and the Christian church split into two groups: Western or Roman Catholic Church: Services conducted in Latin Pope is supreme religious authority Priests required to be celibate Divorce not permitted Eastern or Greek Orthodox Church: Services in Greek or local language Patriarch is head of church Under emperor’s authority Priests can marry Divorce allowed under certain conditions

17. Missionaries Eastern Orthodox missionaries spread northward into Russia and the Balkans, and created a new alphabet for Slavic languages, Cyrillic. Cyril and Methodius are the two most famous of the missionaries.

18. Kievan Rus’ Kiev began as a city along the trade route between Scandinavia and Constantinople. One of the early leaders of the city, Vladimir converted to Orthodox Christianity around 1000 A.D. The City State soon developed its own version of Russian Orthodox Christianity.

20. The Emergence of Kievan Rus' Trade with Byzantines Trade with Northerners (Scandinavians) c. 855, monarchy created under Rurik Vladimir I (980-1015) Converts to Orthodoxy Controls church

21. Yaroslav I Issued a unifying code of laws, while not as advanced as Constantinople, it still had nobles called Boyars.

22. The Tartars The Russian name for the Mongols. The Invasion of Russia by Mongols, and the destruction of Constantinople by Muslims, isolated Russia. The region was cut off from western contacts, stifling economic, political, and cultural sophistication.