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Rome & The Byzantine Empire Flashcards

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Pax Romana

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Peaceful time in Roman Empire
Allowed for the safe spreading of ideas
When ended => persecution of Christians

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Justinian’s code

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Decided legal qs like marriage slavery property inheritance women’s rights and criminal justice
4 works: the code, the digest, the institutes, and the novellae (new laws)
Made when east and west reunified
Created new laws to regulate society

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Ottoman Turks

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Took over Constantinople ending the Byzantine empire

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Icon

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Painting sculpture thing that has a religious meaning

They were destroyed during the iconoclastic movement

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Scapegoats

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Someone that is blamed for another person’s mistake

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Inflation

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In the economy, the value of money lessens so it’s not worth as much

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Bosporus

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A strait where Constantinople was located

Strategic for defense and trade

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Hagia Sophia

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Built by Justinian

Church

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Eastern Orthodox

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From Byzantine empire

Patriarchs

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Excommunication

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Pope & patriarch excommunicated each other

Don’t acknowledge the other

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Constantine

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An emperor of Rome
Made Christianity a legit religion
Ended the persecution of Christians

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Germanic tribes

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Invaded the Roman Empire a lot

Visigoths, Ostrogoths, vandals, franks etc.

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Constantinople

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Made capital of Roman Empire by Constantine

Became big trading place in Byzantine empire

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Hippodrome

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Built by Justinian

Offered entertainment for anyone of any class

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Roman Catholic

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West

Pope

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Schism

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When the church split in 1054

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Hierarchy

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Church set-up for Roman Catholic

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Justinian

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Emperor of Byzantine empire
Reunited almost all of Roman Empire as it was before
Had the Justinian code

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Theodora

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Justinian’s wife

Convinced him to stay and rule when rebellion

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Patriarch

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Highest level in Eastern Orthodox Church

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City of God

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Book written by Augustine

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Diocletian

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Restored order in Roman Empire w limited freedoms
Good military and controlled inflation
Split the empire into east and west

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Procopius

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Witnessed Nika riots

Writer

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Paul

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Wasn't a believer but then became one
Helped spread Christianity 
Apostle
Large influence on the religion
Believed Christians didn't have to follow Jewish law
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Byzantine empire

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Eastern Orthodox
Better trade, agriculture, silk production
Urban

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West

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Invasions messed everything up ex: economy

Roman Catholic

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