Idk Flashcards
Byzantine empire
Eastern Roman Empire
Inherited roman authority
Economic powerhouse
Sassanid empire
Major threat to Byzantine empire
Justinian
Important Byzantine emperor
Military campaign to win back lost roman lands (failure)
CODIFICATION OF ROMAN LAW
Hagia Sophia
Church of holy wisdom Christian architecture
Byzantine empire economic developments and social distinctions
Centrally controlled by bereaucracy in Constantinople
Big peasant class
Geography was ideal for controlling long distance trade and defending city
Woman confined to home (ruled empire equally)
Theodora
Empress had great influence over husband Justinian
Caesaropapism
The policy of political and religious power in hands of emporer
Emporer above law enhanced by large beuracy
Hanseatic league
Cities in N Germany and S Scandinavia formed it
To facilitate trade as more towns purchased charters
Ursury
The charging of interest for the use of money
Ghettos
Jews lived
Smaller urban areas
Pogroms
Anti Semitic mob actions that drove Jews from W TO eastern euro where they had less discrimination
Scholasticism
The attempt to reconcile the beliefs and values of Christianity w the logical reasoning of Greek philosophy
Vernacular languages
Started replace roman language
The Cyrillic writing system
Created to communicate w followers in native language
Adopted in the Eastern Orthodox countries
Hundred Years’ War
Between France and England for territories the english king controlled in francs
Impact of the crusades
Pop increases fueled expansion
Crusades
Series of attacks prompted by Byzantine emporer Alexius 1 needed help raising troops to resist Turkish invasions into his territory
Poor urban 11 called Christian knights to save Jerusalem
Saladin
Muslim general that took Jerusalem back then crusaders never got Jerusalem back again
Crusaders importance
Laid foundation for emergence of European countries in the next era
SAW CIVILIZATIONS NOW CHANGE IS INEVITABLE
Friction between King and popes.. Worked against centralized power and resistance of nobility
So much of Europe remained feudalistic such as
HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE established in charlemagnes crowning
Pope picked emporer showed pope had power
Limited gov
Magma carts
Limits power of ruler
King John forced to sign to guarantee rights to nobility
Parliament
Created to give nobility and clergy a voice in policy making
Battle of Hastings
English forces fought Normans
Guilds
Merchant guilds association of ppl that worked in same occupation
Later controlled trade and set high standards
Renaissance or rebirth
Where art and culture took place and later spread over Europe
