1. Maintaining the Legacy of Rome
The Byzantine Empire
Maintaining the Legacy of Rome

2. Centered in Constantinople

3. Justinian Tried to piece together the remnants of the old Roman Empire
Held absolute power over both church and state (definitely more political)
Drained treasury with excessive building such as churches, baths, aqueducts, & walls
Put down the Nika Rebellion by slaughtering over 30,000 rebels in the hippodrome (chariot race track)

4. Hagia Sophia

5. Inside the Hagia Sophia

6. Justinian Code The Code The Digest The Institutes The Novellae
5000 Roman laws that were applicable
The Digest
50 volumes of legal thinkers’ opinions
The Institutes
Textbook for law students on its application
The Novellae
New laws written after 534

7. Turmoil around the Empire
General Turmoil
Riots, religious quarrels, corruption
Plague in the mid-6th century
Predecessor of Bubonic Plague
Up to 10,000 a day were killed
Cycled every 7-12 years until about AD 700
Attacks from outsiders gradually decreased their territory and power

8. Split in the Church Roman Catholic Eastern Orthodox
Based in Rome
Spoke Latin in services
Pope
Struggle between authority of the Pope and that of kings
Based in Constantinople
Spoke Greek in services
Patriarch
Patriarch was always below the ruler (caesaropapism)