1. BYZANTINES, RUSSIANS, AND TURKS
TEST XIII
BYZANTINES, RUSSIANS, AND TURKS

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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**

6. MONASTERY

7. 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

8. 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.

9. FALL OF THE EMPIRE
-Hagia Sophia=was main church

10. -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

11. PRINCESS OLGA

12. KING VLADIMIR

13. -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

14. GENGIS KHAN

15. -but Christianity flourished with a new Bible printed with the CYRILLIC ALPHABET. Cyril and Methodius

16. 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

17. THE FRANKS
Location-France and western 400 AD I) Clovis-AD Brutal -In 496, converted to Catholicism
Brought Christianity to the Franks -by 596, Kingdom declined

18. FRANKISH EMPIRE

19. 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 Son of Charles -Annointed by Pope -Tied to Roman Catholic Church
IV) Charlemagne-AD 771

20. CHARLEMAGNE

21. 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

22. 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

24. INVADERS Vikings-from Norway
Scandinavia Surprise attacks -quick retreats -great ships -Stole, burned, looted, no mercy

25. Vikings

26. Erik the Red

27. -Leif Erikson

28. Mongols-Genghis Khan

29. Muslims