Constinople Flashcards
Which empire continued
Eastern empire into Byzantium empire with Constinople
Justinian
- Compiled textbook of legal principles (corpus luris)
- mistress: Theodora
- strengthened Christianity
Nika riots
Caused much of Constantinople to be burned
-was stopped by Justinianas commander Belisarius bribing one aside and massacring the other.
Hagria Sophia
Impressive church build by Justinian
Work and women’s lives in Constantinople
Work: artists, mint workers, silk makers, merchants, farmers
Women: home, male escorts, covered with veils (elite), poor worked in shops
Who did Belisarius conquer
Vandals and Italy
Plague
Caused 5000-10000 to die a day
Black swellings appeared then coma
Theodora dies
Theodora
Tried to eliminate prostitution by giving poor women dowries
Sassanian empire
Persian nobleman overthrew Parthian king and created Sassanian empire where Christians, Jews, and Manichaeans lived, but plague made them weak too.
Who brought the true cross back to Jerusalem
Heraclius
Silk Road
4000 mile trade route from China and India to Constantinople and Rome.
Bedouin
Migrants of the desert (shepherds)
Muhammad
- merchant who got visions in a cave
- spoke to polytheists of Mecca’s and Allah
- people threatened him and followers and he went to Medina
- built shrine in Medina
- supported polygamy
- Qu’ran and Hadith
Five pillars of Islam (voluntary submission to God)
- Acknowledge God as supreme
- Pray 5x a day
- Charity
- Fast during Ramadan
- Pilgrimage to Mecca
Two groups that emerged out of Islam
Shiite’s- only relatives should succeed
Sunni’s -appointed by census should succeed
Who is Jesus in Islam
A prophet but not God
Iconoclasm
Destruction of images done by emperor Leo the isaurian
Done of the rock location
Site of Jewish second temple
Christian holy wisdom location
Theodoric
Led eastern branch of Goths to recapture Italy
- agreed to split Italy
- Arian
- didn’t force religion
- treaty with vandals broke and Visigoths asserted dominance
Lombards
(Germanic people) who conquered Milan
- Romans feared them
- starved out Tuscany
- rifled churches
- became romanized
- arians
Benedict
Monistic life with choir
-sister started community of nuns
Some abbesses claimed to be able to do what
Grant absolution
Gregory
- born in Roman aristocratic family
- became monk
- became pope
- helped feed poor and build hospitals
- sent missionaries to angles and Saxon’s
Franks
Germanic warriors who controlled northern Gaul
-Clovis defeats visigoths, Ostrogoths and burgundians then converts to Christianity
Charlemagne
- tall guy and Christian warrior
- conquered saxons and lombards
- pope Leo 3 makes him emperor
- creates Fealty where a lesser nobleman (vassal) swears oath to master.
Carolingian Renaissance
First of three medical Renaissance’s
-increase of literatures, writing, arts, architecture, scriptural studies etc.
