Byzantine Empire

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No, Rome was split by Emperor Constantine. The East, and the West. The Byzantine empire was in the west. After the fall of Rome, the Byzantine Empire never held much western real estate due to the constant warring and eventual invention of cannons. They had a good run though, and particularly impressive defensive capabilities around Constantinople (Istanbul today)....but I digress.

Basically, if you read the wikipedia article you will have a pretty good answer to your question. Pretty simple stuff.

The form of Christianity based on Greek heritage practiced in the Byzantine Empire is Eastern Orthodox.

After Jesus life and death and after He rose from the dead, many people came to believe. Today Christians are many.


It became a religion because Jesus was Born in Bethlehem

North Africa and Italy.

There were many causes to the fall of the western part of the Roman Empire. In a recent study in Germany, they found 210 reasons for its fall. It has been argued that the actual fall of the empire was preceded by a period of decline caused by a variety of factors and which had weakened it. All sorts of factors have been argued for, ranging from lead poisoning to a failing economy to a weakened military. The concept of long decline of the Roman Empire has been challenged by recent historians who question the old view of a long decline or at least the extent it has been thought to have reached. It could be that the empire was in as bad a shape as in the "traditional" view.

The fall of the western part of the Roman Empire was precipitated by the invasions by the Germanic peoples. This part of the empire lost political cohesion. There were usurpers and a lot of infighting among the Romans, who were unable to respond to these invasions. Some invaders (the Vandals, Sueves and Aland) entered into Gaul and moved to Spain and then northwest Africa; others (the Burgundians) took over eastern France and (the Alemanni) north-eastern France and Switzerland. These invaders were migrating peoples in search for new lands. Two other Germanic peoples who had been allowed to settle in parts of the empire took advantage of the situation. The Visigoths took over Spain and the Franks expanded from northern Gaul into most of Gaul. The Germanic peoples also took sides in the disputes among the Romans and this further weakened them. In addition to this, faced with difficulties in recruiting enough soldiers, the Romans relied on Germanic mercenaries and Germanic allies to help their army. Some of these soldiers became commanders-in- chief of the Roman Army in the west. One of them, Ricimer set up three puppet emperors and held the real political power. Eventually, the last emperor of the western part of the Roman Empire was deposed by Germanic soldiers in Italy who were unhappy with the refusal to grant them plots of land in Italy.

The eastern part of the Roman Empire was not affected by these invasions and continued to exist for nearly 1,000 years.

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In recorded history,1600BC - 1911(from Sang dynasty to Qing dynasty).

In legend,2070BC-1911(from Xia dynasty to Qing dynasty).

A lot of people think 221BC,the begining of Qin dynasty, is the begining of China civilization.That is wrong.The king of Qin conqured other six kingdoms, and created the first centralized government in chinese history,and became the first emperor of China. Before the Qin dynasty, China was similar to the medieval Europe.They were not same, just similar.You could use a royal family and seven lords to understand it.(Remerber they were not same, just similar! Qin shihuang was one of the seven lords, he defeated the royal family and other six lords.) Before China became a whole centralized country, the civilization had last for almost two thousand years.

The Iconoclast Controversy, which erupted in the 8th century, had profound effects on the Byzantine Empire, leading to deep divisions within society and the church. It sparked intense theological debates over the use of religious icons, resulting in periods of iconoclasm where images were destroyed and those who venerated them faced persecution. This conflict weakened the unity of the empire, contributing to political instability and strife between different factions, including the clergy and the laity. Ultimately, the controversy shaped Byzantine identity and influenced its relations with both Western Christendom and Islamic states.

Most Byzantine women were homemakers. Some also became educated.

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The co-emperors Gratian, Theodosius I and Valentinian II declared mainstream Christianity the sole legitimate religion of the empire in the Edict of Thessalonica of 380. This was restricted the Latin (western) and Greek (eastern) Christianity (these later came to be called Catholic and Orthodox respectively). The purpose of the edict was to ban the other versions and sects of Christianity, particularly Arian Christianity, which was popular around the empire. These other versions and sects of Christianity were branded heretic and their persecution started soon after the edict.

The term the fall of Rome refers to the fall of the western part of the Roman Empire, rather than the city itself, which was never conquered.

This was a process which took several decades. The process was determined by several factors. It was precipitated by the invasions by the Germanic peoples (the Vandals, the Sueves) and the Alans (who were Iranian speakers) who invaded the empire and took over north-western Africa and part of Spain, the Alemanni who took over Switzerland and northwester France and the Burgundians who settled in east France. The loss of the agricultural rich territory in Africa lead to a significant loss in revenue for the Roman government.

The Visigoths, another Germanic people, who had been allowed to settle in the eastern part of the Roman Empire and then moved to southwestern France, took advantage of the situation to take over Hispania (Spain and Portugal).

The Romans lost political unity. There were usurpations and infighting which made it difficult to respond to the invasions effectively. There was also a failure by the combined fleet of the western and eastern part of the Roman Empire to dislodge the Vandals from Africa. It ended in disaster and was very costly.

The Roman army became reliant on Germanic soldiers and two Germanic commanders-in chief of the Roman army installed puppet emperors (three by Ricimer, one by Gundobad and one by Orestes). Amidst this political instability, the reign of the last emperors was short.

The Ottomans had skilled soldiers, so over time they would conquer different parts slowly, and once they had defeated the last of the Byzantine Empire, the Ottoman Empire was now a large empire. The Ottoman Empire started off as a little community, but kept growing into a large empire, lead by a man named Osman.

Emperor Theodosius declared Christianity the state religion in 380 or 381, and then in 391 banned the public worship of the pagan gods although probably more than half the population were still pagans.

Theodora died Justinian was distraught. Justinian and Theodora were very close. Theodora was a close adviser and the two of them collaborated on many things. Theodora had saved Justinian's rule by arguing for refusing to flee during a riot. However they differed on matters of religion. Justinian supported mainstream Orthodox Christianity, while she supported a dissident doctrine. This created conflict on these matters and Justinian often obstructed Theodora. However, her influence was so strong that when she died, Justinian worked on reconciling the two doctrines and kept his promise to protect the monastery Theodora built as a refuge for the dissident Christians.

The reign of Justinian I is seen as a distinct period of Byzantine history by historians. It was a period of conquest, splendour, great prosperity and important public works, and administrative and religious reforms andimperialunity.

Justinian I wanted to ‘restore’ the Roman Empire by reconquering the lands lost by the Western Roman Empire as a result of the Germanic invasions. He succeeded in defeating the Vandals in Africa, retaking this area, the Ostrogoths, retaking Italy, Sicily and Dalmatia (on the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea) and the Visigoths in Spain, retaking southern Spain. This gave him control of the western Mediterranean. The large state revenues the conquests generated (they increased by 20%) helped him with an ambitious programme of church building and public works. He rebuilt the damaged Church of the Holy Apostles and the Hagia Sophia church in Constantinople, which were both badly damaged, and built the church of San Vitale in Ravenna (the centre of Byzantine rule in Italy). He built underground cisterns to secure water supply for Constantinople, including the massive Basilica Cistern (453 by 212 feet and 30 ft. high)). He built a dam is southwestern Turkey to prevent flood and the Sangiarius bridge in northwestern Turkey to secure a supply route to the east for the army. He built border fortifications from Africa to the East. Justinian restored towns damaged by an earthquake and built a new city, Justiniana Prima, as the new capital of the province of Illyria. He built a massive granary on an island near Constantinople to make the grain traffic form Egypt more efficient. He also established diplomatic relations with Ethiopia to bypass the land Silk Road through Persia because there were wars with Persia and managed to establish a local production of silk.

Justinian I took measures to tackle corruption in the provinces and made tax collection more efficient by increasing its professionalization. He protected the purity of the official church and persecuted dissident Christian sects and paganism. He secured the rights of the church and the clergy and protected and expanded the monastic orders. He granted the monks the right to inherit property from private individuals and to receive annual gits for the state of from taxes and banned the confiscation of monastic property. He gave the canons of the church legal force and issued laws regarding the administration of church property, the elections and rights and obligations of the clergy, the conduct of service and episcopal jurisdiction. Justinian I was one of the most important emperors in the history of the Orthodox Church. He described as a ‘nursing father’ of the church and put it on a more solid footing, and redefined its structure. Justinian’s rule was quite despotic. He regulated everything in administration, law and religion tightly. It was said that the church could do nothing contrary to his will.

Justinian I’s most enduring legacy was his commissioning of the Corpus Juris Civilis (Body of Civil law) which was later called the Justinian Code. This was a digest of centuries of Roman civil law and gave a uniform organisation this law, scrapped obsolete enactments and redefined obscure passages. It also included a collection of essays by famous jurists and a student textbook. The Corpus Juiris Civilis has provided the basis of the civil law of many modern countries.

Towards the end of his reign, the splendour and prosperity of his reign was undone by the outbreak of a major plague which decimated the population of the empire. Its impact has been compared to that of the Black Death in the Middle Ages.

Theodora, she was the wife of Justinian I.

Constantinople, was the political capital of the Byzantine Empire. It was also the religious center being the see of the Orthodox Patriarch of Constantinople.

Byzantine Empire is a term historians use for the Eastern Roman Empire after the fall of the Western Roman Empire. The term is used to indicate the fact that when this empire lost most of its non-Greek territories as a result of invasions by the Arabs and Slavs, it became centred on Greece and Greek in Character. Greek replaced Latin as the official language of this empire in 620. This was only about 150 years after the fall of the west. The term Byzantine is derived from Byzantium, the originally Greek city which was redeveloped and renamed Constantinople.

The Byzantines are famous for their art. Byzantine art influenced western European, and especially Italian, art before the Renaissance. The art of this period was based on Byzantine icons. The Byzantines also spread Orthodox Christianity to part of eastern Europe and to Russia.

The term Byzantine Empire has been coined by historians to indicate the eastern part of the Roman Empire after the fall of the western part of this empire. The 'east' continued to exist for nearly 1,000 years after the fall of the 'west.' The people in question did not even know the term "Byzantine" and called their empire Roman Empire. In other words, the so-called Byzantine Empire was the continuation of the Roman Empire. The so-called Byzantines saw themselves as Romans.

The religion of the eastern part of the Roman Empire had developed before the fall of the western part of this empire. It was called Greek or Eastern Christianity, and it was the main form of Christianity in this part of the empire. The main form of Christianity in the western part of the empire was called Latin or Western Christianity. Later, they came to be called Orthodox and Catholic respectively.

How were lands that were once part of the Byzantine Empire added to the Islamic world?

Possibly the empress Theodora could be considered the greatest empress of the Byzantine empire, but if not the greatest, the one who is the most well known.

Possibly the empress Theodora could be considered the greatest empress of the Byzantine empire, but if not the greatest, the one who is the most well known.

Possibly the empress Theodora could be considered the greatest empress of the Byzantine empire, but if not the greatest, the one who is the most well known.

Possibly the empress Theodora could be considered the greatest empress of the Byzantine empire, but if not the greatest, the one who is the most well known.

Possibly the empress Theodora could be considered the greatest empress of the Byzantine empire, but if not the greatest, the one who is the most well known.

Possibly the empress Theodora could be considered the greatest empress of the Byzantine empire, but if not the greatest, the one who is the most well known.

Possibly the empress Theodora could be considered the greatest empress of the Byzantine empire, but if not the greatest, the one who is the most well known.

Possibly the empress Theodora could be considered the greatest empress of the Byzantine empire, but if not the greatest, the one who is the most well known.

Possibly the empress Theodora could be considered the greatest empress of the Byzantine empire, but if not the greatest, the one who is the most well known.

The western part of the Roman Empire disintegrated under the wight of the Germanic invasion. The eastern part of the empire was distant from these areas of invasions and was not affected by it.

Byzantine Empire is a term which has been coined by historians. The Romans called it Roman Empire. The term refers to the eastern part of the empire after the fall of the western part. It is used to indicate the fact that after it lost most of its non Greek territories (because of invasions by Arabs and Slavs) it became centred on Greece and Greek in character. Greek replaced Latin as the official language of the empire in 620.

The term Byzantine is derived from Byzantium, the name of the Greek city which was redeveloped and turned into the capital of the eastern part of the empire and renamed Constantinople.