Section 3-Byzantium Flashcards
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What were Justinian’s contributions?
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- passion in church and god
- rebuilt Hagia Sophia
- mosaics=colored fragments of glass and quarts embedded into plaster
- Justinian’s Code-4652 laws
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what is some Byzantine history and culture?
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- borders often changed
- Slavs. Bulgars. Persians. = enemies
- held together by Christianity
- Jews weren’t allowed to join city
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What do people mean by the “new empire”?
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-army regained parts of Spain. all of Italy. and North Africa
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What happened with Justinian’s new empire and Persia?
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- battled for control of Armenia, turkey, Syria, and Egypt
- Persians conquered Mesopotamia. Asia Minor. Jerusalem. and Egypt.
what happened after…
emperor Heraclitus defeated Persia.
-Persia had long lasting weakness
