Rome's Legacy: Byzantium, the Papacy, and the Roman Catholic Church Flashcards
Roman Bishop claimed supremacy over other bishops (Date)
c. A.D. 440
Roman bishop to claim supremacy over other bishops
Leo I
Great Schism Begins (Date)
A.D. 1054
Parties of the Great Schism
Eastern (Greek Orthodox) and Western (Roman Catholic) Churches
Eastern European city attacked as part of the 4th Crusade
Constantinople
Constantinople attacked as part of the 4th Crusade (Date)
A.D. 1204
Constantinople falls to the Ottoman Turks (Date)
A.D. 1453
Restoration of Icons in the Eastern Church
A.D. 843
Canonization
The definitive sentence by which the pope declares a particular dead person to have already entered into heavenly glory & ordains for the new “saint” a public cult through the Church
Ottoman Empire
Muslim empire of the Turks that would ultimately capture Constantinople (1453)
Where the Ottoman Empire was established
Northern Asia Minor
Founder of the Ottoman Empire
Osman I
Seljuk
A Turkish Dynasty that ruled parts of Asia Minor
Names of Byzantium (the city)
Byzantium, Constantinople, and Istanbul (in modern-day Turkey)
Advantage of Constantinople’s site
It was strategically located for commercial and political influence
Periods of Byzantine History
- Expansion - The reign of Justinian
- Peril - The Iconoclastic Controversy
- Recovery - Byzantium’s “Golden Age”
- Disintegration - The Byzantine Empire began to fall apart, culminating in the lost at Manzikert to the Muslim Seljuk Turks
Religion of the Seljuks
Islam
To whom the Byzantine Empire fell
The Seljuk Turks
Where the Byzantine Empire fell
Manzikert
Icons
Religious images used to foster worship, such as flat pictures or mosaics
Iconoclasts
People who tried to destroy all icons
Reasons for the Byzantine Empire’s Endurance
- Had a money economy rather than a barter economy
- Possessed advanced military science (such as Greek fire)
- Had a centralised administration
- Caesaropapism
Greek fire
Worked like napalm (a fire bomb or flame thrower)
Caesaropapism
A close church/state link between the Orthodox Church and the Byzantine Empire that enhanced unity and stability
Another name for the Greek Orthodox Church
Eastern Orthodox Church
The three main branches of Christianity
- Orthodox Church
- Catholicism
- Protestantism