BYZANTINES, RUSSIANS, AND TURKS TEST XIII BYZANTINES, RUSSIANS, AND TURKS
DEFINE TERMS P301 GRECO-ROMAN * 527 AD, JUSTINIAN -Called the “Emperor who Never Sleeps.” -Was the new Caesar -Wife was THEODORA, who saved the empire in 532 *-Took Italy, n. Africa, and Spain from the Germans -CREATED THE JUSTINIAN CODES -USING 10 Scholars, coded the Roman Law -took 6 years Constantinople was the crossroads of TRADE
ISSUES Icons and Iconoclasts Rome vs Constantinople Council of Nicea Doctrine Lombards attack the Pope and Charlemagne comes to the rescue -AD 1054, Church Splits, called SCHISM
LIFE IN THE EMPIRE -Church is center of life -Silk -Art was religious -MOSAICS -Church supports education -literature is religious -MONKS SPENT THEIR SPARE TIME COPYING THE BIBLE MONASTERIES**
MONASTERY
MONKS WERE: 1) Separated 2) Bound to do good deeds 3) Always helping the poor 4) running hospitals 5) educating new missionaries 6) able to copy the Bible in different languages
BENEDICTINE MONKS Were different from Byzantine Monks A school was started by St. Benedict, Catholic Benedict introduced a book of rules Those monks who followed the rules were called Benedictine Monks.
FALL OF THE EMPIRE -Hagia Sophia=was main church
-Islam (OTTOMAN TURKS) destroys Christians and takes H. S -Islam (OTTOMAN TURKS) destroys Christians and takes H.S. the Christians tried to destroy it RUSSIA SLAVS were from forests beyond Black Sea VIKINGS settled among Slavs -Create 2 cities-Novgorod and Kiev -in 957 Princess Olga converts to Christianity -in 989, her grandson, King Vladimir converted also and made his subjects also convert to Eastern Orthodox
PRINCESS OLGA
KING VLADIMIR
-Now Russia is tied to Constantinople -Kiev rises under Vladimir and son YAROSLAV but falls under his 3 sons. *-Then came GENGHIS KHAN, AND THE MONGOLS
GENGIS KHAN
-but Christianity flourished with a new Bible printed with the CYRILLIC ALPHABET. Cyril and Methodius
TURKS -From Central Asia -became Mamelukes for their Abbasid masters in BAGHDAD -rebelled and became Muslims -Took Baghdad from Persia and Asia minor from the Byzantines -Mongols then take them from Turks -from this empire rose the Ottomans
THE FRANKS Location-France and western Germany @ 400 AD I) Clovis-AD 481 -Brutal -In 496, converted to Catholicism Brought Christianity to the Franks -by 596, Kingdom declined
FRANKISH EMPIRE
II) Charles Martel-AD 714. “Charles the Hammer” II) Charles Martel-AD 714 “Charles the Hammer” -drove out the MUSLIMS from France at the Battle of Tours III) Pepin the Short-AD 752 -Son of Charles -Annointed by Pope -Tied to Roman Catholic Church IV) Charlemagne-AD 771
CHARLEMAGNE
CHARLEMAGNE -Increased land to most of Europe, Largest Empire since the Roman called “Frankish Empire” or the “CAROLIGIAN EMPIRE” -Built schools and churches -Copied manuscripts into latin -Leo III (Pope) crowned him the new Roman Emperor, but he did not like it. Relied on Counts
CHARLEMAGNE -Died in AD 814 and the empire starts to collapse -Louis the Pious-son -3 grandsons -Charles the Bald-France -Louis the German-Germany -Lothair-Rhineland
INVADERS Vikings-from Norway Scandinavia Surprise attacks -quick retreats -great ships -Stole, burned, looted, no mercy
Vikings
Erik the Red
-Leif Erikson
Mongols-Genghis Khan
Muslims