The Worlds Of Christendom Flashcards
The Byzantine Empire was one of the most
Sophisticated and powerful Christan empire
While civilizations were contracted in Western Europe as the Roman Empire collapsed by 1200…
A civilization combines the Greco-Roman-Christan past with the Germanic and Celtic people
Byzantium was a continutation of
The Roman Empire
The Byzantium sought to preserve thr
Legacy of classical Greco-Roman civilization
Constantinople
Capital of Byzantium
Emperor claimed to be the
Sole rule of the world and it had a very centralized government
Caesaropapism
A political-religious system In where the secular ruler is also head of the religious establishment, as in the Byzantine Empire
The emperor treated church as a
Government
Eastern Orthodox Christianity legitimated that the ruler was the
God anointed ruler
The Roman church and the Eastern Orthodox Christianity claimed each other to be not
Genuine Christian
The Crusades is an attack by the
Catholic pope against forces of Islam (1095)
Orthodox Christianity spread to (what city)
Rus in 1200
Rus is a society of
Slaves,Freemen, Privileged people,commoners,dominant men, and subordinate women
Price Vladimir of Kiev affiliated with the Eastern Orthodox faith because of
Trying to unify the diverse people of his region while linking Rus into wider networks of communication and exchange
Rus borrowed many things from Byzantine as they took
The Byzantine architectural styles, the Cyrillic alphabet based on the Greek counterpart, use of religious images (icons), and political ideas of imperial control of the church
The Byzantine area weaken by Catholic Crusaders and Turkic Muslim invaders so the end came in
1453 when the Ottoman Empire took hold of Constantinople
Western Christianson
West Christianity
Western Europe made the political unity
Difficult