early byzantine

Question 1

what was byzattium named after

Answer 1

byzantion

• modest market town and fishing village
• strategic location (natural harbor)
• Golden Horn Harbor, Black Sea, Sea of Marmara…
• access and trade routes to anatolia

Question 2

why did Constantine make Byzation the capital

Answer 2

(AKA constantinople)
–E mediterranean was wealthier
–keep watch over the Sasanids in Persia and the Germanic Tribes in lower Danube R.
(they didn’t have enough resources to take care of entire state so they focused on east)
–important commercial center

Question 3

what happened to constantinople when it fell to the ottoman turks?

Answer 3

changed name to Istanbul

Question 4

principal challenge of early byzantine

Answer 4

consolidation of sasanid empire in persia

–invasion of migratory people from the N and E

Question 5

the byzantine rule

Answer 5

centralized

• -most power in one highly exalted emperor
• -lavish capital for ruler

Question 6

constantine religiously

Answer 6

• -couldnt claim divinity since he was christian
• -claimed divine favor and sanction for his rule instead
• -settled theological disputes
• -caesaropapism (where the emperor rules secularly and ecclesiastically at the same time)

Question 7

caesaropapism

Answer 7

where the emperor rules secularly and ecclesiastically at the same time

Question 8

byzantine emperors

Answer 8

–were above the law
–could wield absolute authority over all maters
political military judicial financial religious
–they were way too cool

Question 9

the most important early byzantine emperor

Answer 9

Justinian

“the sleepless emperor”

Question 10

Justinian’s advisor

Answer 10

his wife, theodora

Question 11

how was the Haiga Sophia made

Answer 11

• -after riots broke out due to high taxes,
• -theodora convinced justinian to send the army
• -he rebuilt the city and built the haifa Sophia

Question 12

whats the haifa sophia

Answer 12

• -pretty church
• -later a mosque
• -huge dome and pretty stones

Question 13

justinian’s most significant political contribution

Answer 13

his codification of Roman law

• -made the Body of Civil Law
• -AKA Justinian’s Code

Question 14

justinian’s military venture

Answer 14

to take back some of the W Roman empire

• -he sent general Belisarius on military campaigns
• but it was hard to support them

Question 15

Western Rome capital

Answer 15

Ravenna

Italy

Question 16

what happened to the reconquered W Roman Empire

Answer 16

• -Justinian’s successors had to withdraw because

- -when they focused on the W, sasanids threatened byzantium from the the E and slavics threatened from the N