1. BELL
What are the benefits and drawbacks of a military conquest?
Why might a ruler use diplomacy or intermarriage with an outside ruling family?

2. The Byzantine Empire, the Mongols, Tang and Song China
Chapters 11 &12 AD

3. A New Rome in a New Setting Byzantium – the Eastern half
Justinian AD
Regains Italy
A new Caesar?
Absolute Power
Empire & Church
Brutal Politics
Often assassinated
½ died or fled

5. Life in the New Rome Byzantine’s own Character
Share tradition; spoke Greek
Legal experts
Regulate complex society

6. Justinian Code 400 yrs. of Roman Law
CODE Roman laws
DIGEST- quotes and summaries of Rome’s legal thinkers.
INSTITUTES- told students how to use the laws
NOVELLAE- new laws made after 534 AD

7. Life in the New Rome (Cont.)
Rebuilding the capital
Hagia Sophia
Copied Rome
Baths, aqueducts, law schools/courts, hospitals
Preserves Greco-Roman culture

8. Merchants, street musicians, acrobats
“Middle Way”
Merchants, street musicians, acrobats
Entertainment
Hippodrome

10. Fall of the Empire Plague of Justinian 10,000 die per day Attacks
Death of Justinian
From East & West
Bribes to hold strong
Marriage alliances, bribes, military power

11. More Results of the Fall
Empire continues to shrink
By 1453 falls to Ottoman Turks

12. Christian Church Divides
Eastern Orthodox
Roman Catholic
Latin
Pope is authority in church but not state
Priests cannot marry
Divorce not permitted
Greek or local lingo
Patriarchs and Bishops work together but emperor is final authority
Priests may marry
Divorce is allowed under certain conditions
Icons banned

13. Cyrillic Alphabet Orthodox missionaries converted Slavs.
New alphabet in local languages to enable the reading of Christian Bible.
Where is it still used today?

14. Enrichment opportunity
Research the Cyrillic alphabet and translate your name- 5pts on next test

15. Russian Empire Yaroslav the Wise- 1019- Kiev (Modern Ukraine)
Marriage alliances
Legal code- commerce
Divided empire among his sons
Bad move

16. Bell In your opinion, was Justinian a great leader? Why or why not?
Why do you think the Justinian Code lasted so long?

18. Bell What makes an era a “golden Age”
What Chinese invention (past or present) do you consider to be the most valuable to the world? Explain your choice

19. Sui and Tang China Sui- short lived- 40 years Wendi- Grand Canal
1000 miles of watery trade
High death toll caused revolts

20. Tang Wu Zhao- Korean Empress
“secondary wife” of Emperor Tang at age 13
Expansion and scholar officials
High taxes to maintain empire

21. The Song Dynasty Restores China
Unites Southern China
Most populous country in world
100 million people
Most advanced country
Science/Technology
Agriculture
Trade

22. Chinese Advances Inventions
Movable type, gunpowder, mechanical clock, paper money
Rice ripening from Vietnam
Ocean Trade
Magnetic compass
Trading colonies
Chinese culture spreads
Religion

23. Changes in Chinese Society
Chinese painting
Natural landscapes
Social Mobility
Gentry: education and civil service- not landownership
Easy to move up in society

24. Binding the feet “lilly foot” Shows status of male
Status of Women
Binding the feet “lilly foot”
Shows status of male

26. Mongol Invasions Ghengis Khan
“A man's greatest work is to break his enemies, to drive them before him, to take from them all the things that have been theirs, to hear the weeping of those who cherished them."

27. The Mongol Empire Largest unified land empire in history
China to Poland
Khanates
Great Khan (Mongolia/China)
Chagatai (Central Asia)
Ilkanate (Persia)
Golden Horde (Russia)

30. Marco Polo Foreigners in China Silk Road merchant
Brings Chinese culture to Europe
Thought to be lies
What else might he have brought back to Europe?

31. Khandate of the Golden Horde
Batu- grandson made it all the way to Kiev
Demanded complete obedience and massive tribute
“scourge of Europe”

32. Russian Freedom
Ivan III- The Great
Prince of Moscow
Challenged Mongol rule
First CZAR- Caesar

33. The Mongol Empire Kublai Khan United all of China Yuan Dynasty
Preserved Chinese government/culture
Set up capital in modern day Beijing
Control of Asia
Greater contacts and trade
Desire for Japan
150,000 warriors to Japan
Typhoon and Kamikaze

35. End of Mongol Rule Kublai’s too ambitious
Expansion conquests; humiliation
Loss of lives and money
Kublai dies
Family fights over who should lead

36. Rebellion
Resentment of Mongols
Disease, famine, lack of money, and political corruption
Legacy
Other khanates slowly declined
Influenced E. Europe and Asia
Failed to conquer Japan
Chinese culture spreads

37. Feudal Japan Borrowing from the Chinese Painting lifestyle Government
writing
Painting
lifestyle
Government
Shinto- “way of the Gods”
Respect nature
Ancestor worship

38. The Samurai “One who serves”
Hired by rival lords as bodyguards
Bushido
Way of the warrior
Code of behavior
Shoguns- military dictator generals

39. Southeast Asia
Khmer Empire- Cambodia
Angkor Wat