Byzantine Empire

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It was on a major trade route between Europe and Asia.

The unifying force in the Byzantine empire was the church . In the church the priests were the hiqhest class & this was also true in their society. The peasants were their worshippers. The church was a way to get the lower class to follow the government by connecting it to the leader . Social classes in church apply to the government .

Women were expected to stay home and take care of their families.

The Byzantine Empire was a continuation of the Roman Empire. Its citizens even called themselves Romans. Two dates-A.D. 330 and A.D. 476-are given for the formation of the Byzantine Empire, which often had shifting boundaries and was centered in Asia Minor (a peninsula in the western part of Asia) and the Balkan Peninsula (in southeast Europe). The 476 date is calculated according to the death of the last Roman emperor Theodosius the Great (347-395) in 395. At that time the Roman Empire was divided into two parts, East and West. Rome, the former capital of the Roman Empire, was located in the West Roman Empire, which came under repeated attacks from nomadic barbarian groups (wandering tribes noted for their brutality). Rome finally fell in 476, and the East Roman Empire survived as the Byzantine Empire. Much of the West Roman Empire was then absorbed into the Byzantine Empire.

The Byzantine Empire was one of the original large Empires of the world. It was also one of the most stable. The stability came from understanding how to expand under control as well as having a stable government in control.

1. seek new trade routes to East Asia

Answer: The Roman Christian Church and its doctrines were created for political reasons (to support a failing Roman Empire) around 300 A.D.. Its descendants, the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Protestant Church were all created for political reasons. These political creations upheld the "divine right of kings" and stripped people of what we now call "civil liberties" for centuries. Answer: there is always a relationship between government and religion.

There were actually 3 churches. It is said that Constantius II commissioned the first church, but there is also a claim that Constantine the Great did. It was burned down in a riot. The second church was commissioned by Theodosius II. This, too, was burned down in a riot. The third church was commissioned by Justinian I

The greatest threat to the Byzantine Empire is said to have come from Muslims, though the Roman Catholics from Western Europe very nearly destroyed them at one point, and it is easy to imagine they might have survived if they had not got "help" from the crusaders.

Kiev, and the rest of the Ukraine, was under control by all of these groups at one point or another throughout its history. Their influences have in large part created Ukrainian culture and indelibly impacted Ukrainian history.

The Emperors Justinian and Basil II

Because Christians are untrustworthy in the first place.

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If by the term 'orthodoxy' you mean 'correct in teaching' then the answer is simply no Roman Emperor did as they changed the traditional teachings and ways of the Apostolic Church - some referred to it as the 'primitive' church period of Jesus and His Apostles. The Western or Roman Empire no longer existed as previously known (Charlemagne in 800 AD is said to have begun the 'Holy Roman Empire' a combine of Church and State). Theodora ruled in the Byzantine Empire during the 1054 AD schism.

They thought that God wanted them to preverve and spread Christianity.

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The so-called "Byzantine Empire" was a continuation of the Roman Empire. The term Byzantine was coined by a German historian in the 16th century in relation to the history of the eastern part of the Roman Empire after the fall of the western part of this empire (Historia Byzantina). The western part of the Roman empire fell under the strain of the invasions by the Germanic peoples. The eastern part was not affected by these invasions and continued to exist for nearly 1,000 years. The terms Byzantine and Byzantine Empire became common in Western Europe in the 19th century. The people in question did not know these terms and called their empire Roman Empire or Empire of the Romans (Imperium Romanum or Imperium Romanorum in Latin and Basileia ton Rhomaion or Arche ton Rhomaion in Greek), or Roman Realm (Romania in Latin and Rhomania in Greek).

The term Byzantine is derived from Byzantium, the Greek city which was redeveloped, turned into Constantine the Great's imperial capital and renamed after himself as Constantinople (City of Constantine) in 330. It is used to indicate the fact that not long after the fall of the west, this empire became centred on Greece and Greek in character after it lost most of its non-Greek territories. Greek replaced Latin as the official language of this empire in 620, some 150 years after the fall of the west.

The law code and the Hagia Sophie (super important) ^_^

Chinese silk trade

Jesus Christ. Although "Christianity" was far more Jewish in A.D. 30. It wasn't called Christianity either, it was called "The Way". Simply put: Yeshua (that's Jesus' name in Hebrew and what you would have heard it called back then) was a Jewish prophet and teacher who was controversial because people were split on if he was the Jewish Messiah or not.

He continued and continues to be controversial today. Josephus Flavius, an ancient Jewish historian who didn't believe in the Messiah-ship of Jesus, wrote of the tension before the fall of Jerusalem (70 A.D.) over believers in Jesus. He wrote briefly on the martyrdom of Jesus' brother in Jerusalem and on Jesus' death.

A letter sent by General Trajan (dated around 100 A.D.) talks about how he hated "Christians" and found out about their worship practices through torturing two deaconesses who were formally slaves. He wrote about how he hated the fact that they worshiped a man who was formally executed by crucifixion and believed he rose from the grave.

Originally, The Way was an extension of Judaism, although when it became the official religion of Rome several centuries later, all the Jewishness was taken out of the faith due to the anti-Semitic stance of the Roman Empire at the time.

Theodora participated in Justinian's legal reforms. She became a champion of women's rights by banning forced prostitution, closing brothels, creating a convent which was a refuge for ex-prostitutes, instituting the death penalty for rape, improving the property rights of women and their rights in divorce, giving women the right of guardianship over their children and forbidding the killing of adulterous wives.

Theodora disagreed with her husband on religious matters. Whilst he supported mainstream Christianity, she supported the Miaphysite dissident doctrine. She founded a monastery which was a shelter for the leaders of this sect who had been excommunicated or exiled by her husband. She outmanoeuvred him and had a Miaphysite enthroned as the Patriarch of Alexandria and Coptic Pope (Justinian had him exiled later). Theodora was accused of supporting heresy and thus undermined the unity of Christianity.

Esentially similar- but some changes or alterations in Liturgy. stately and indeed panoramic- like stages are s.o.p. During a wedding service the partners orbit the church, excuse me Major Gagarin, but the term fits- making three complete cycles on the panoramic stage. I cannot help think this may have inspired some of the lyrics in one of Ronnie Spector"s famous songs- For every kiss you give me, I"ll give you three. ( by the way there is a Russian compass-orientation manuever based on three complete circles also- as contrasted with the USN 720 degrees ( if done right you will hit your own shock wave!) so it goes.

The "Byzantine Empire" was the continuation of the Roman Empire. Byzantine Empire is a term which has been coined by historians to indicate the eastern part of the Roman Empire after the fall of the western part (in continued to exist for nearly 1,000 years). The so-called "Byzantines" did not even know this term. They called their empire Imperium Romanum , Imperium Romanorum (Empire of the Romans) , or Romania in Latin or or Basileia Rhōmaiōn, Archē tōn Rhōmaiōn or Rhomania , which were the same terms in Greek. The Term Romania was not related to the country which was later called Romania .it means land of the Romans). All the peoples who lived the Roman Empire saw themselves as Romans. They had been granted Roman citizenship by the emperor Caracalla in 215.

The term Byzantine was chosen by a German historian in the 16th century as a derivation from Byzantium, a Greek city which evolved into a Roman city under Roman rule and which was then redeveloped, turned into an imperial capital and renamed Constantinople (City of Constantine) by the Roman emperor Constantine the Great in 330. It is used to indicate the fact that not long after the fall of the western part of the Roman Empire, this part of the empire became centred on Greece and Greek in character after it lost most of its non-Greek territories. Greek replaced Latin as the official language of this empire in 620, some 150 years after the fall of the western part. Both the terms Byzantine and Byzantine Empire became common in Western Europe in the 19th century.

None, they were two totally different empires.