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 What section of the Roman Empire fell in 476 AD?  Who renamed ‘Byzantium’, the city of ‘Constantinople’?

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1  What section of the Roman Empire fell in 476 AD?  Who renamed ‘Byzantium’, the city of ‘Constantinople’?

2 Define the following vocabulary words on your index cards:  Byzantine Empire (p 347)  Justinian I (p 348)  Theodora (p 348)  Icon (p 350)  Orthodox Church (p 351)  Rus (p 357)

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4  Reigned 527-565 AD  Wanted to recreate Roman Empire  Re-conquered Italy and N. Africa  Faced down rebellion with wife Theodora  Justinian’s Code – organized old laws and added his own

5  Lost land after Justinian, kept Asia Minor & Constantinople  Emperor seen as chosen by God, spiritual and political power  Centered on Greek culture, Christianity  Iconoclast movement  1054 schism o East – Orthodox, west- Roman Catholic Church

6  Center for East-West trade until 12 th Cen.  Many beautiful buildings: palace, Hippodrome  Hagia Sophia – church built w/ dome on 4 pillars, many windows under dome, appeared to float  Invasions by Turks overwhelmed Byzantines  1096- European Christians went on a ‘crusade’ to help fight the Turks who were also Muslim…thus it became a HOLY WAR. (we will come back to this!!!!)  1453 – Constantinople falls to Ottoman Turks o Changes name to IstanbulIstanbul

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9 Using p. 350- 351 create a 2-column chart on the differences between the Orthodox Church and Roman Catholic Church Issue: Orthodox ChurchRoman Catholic Church

10  Read pages 357 – 360 and complete the graphic organizer.

11 Objective: Analyze how the Rus affected the early history of Kiev, the factors that helped establish Christianity in Russia, and what people groups attacked Russia.

12 Name:OlegYaroslav the Wise Cyril and Methodius Vlad 1 st Alexander Nevsky Who: What: Why: When/ Where:

13 Beginnings and Growth: (add all in yellow to notes)  Russian Primary Chronicle tells of the early Slavic peoples, written in 1100s, telling of the people in mid-800AD  Constant fighting, invited the Rus (northern Europeans) to govern  Oleg- 2 nd ruler o expanded territory south to Kiev o attacked Constantinople o successful trade union with Byzantines  Slavic regions become formal state- Kievan Rus  Yaroslav the Wise o had religious books translated from Greek into Slavic o Russian law was codified o Regained lost territory; but was crushed when attacked Constantinople o Good relations w/ Western Europe through daughters’ marriages

14  Early Slavic religion- polytheistic based on nature  863- Cyril and Methodius- o brothers and Greek monks who used the Slavic language to convert Slavs o Developed written alphabet for Slavonic language o Called Cyrillic alphabet o Based on Greek alphabet  Vladimir I- Grand Duke of Kiev converted, married sister of Byzantine emperor o Built libraries, schools, churches o 988- Vlad made Christianity state religion of Kievan Rus  After the Great Schism- o became semi-independent of Orthodox in Constantinople o “Russian Orthodox Church”

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16  State weakened internally from land-owning princes o New Grand Prince Andrew Bogolyubsky moves central city away from Kiev (places family in Kiev)  Power no longer centralized, easy to attack  Attacked by: o 1. Mongols(from east under Genghis Khan)- 1223 and were defeated. Kiev falls in 1240 to Mongols. Alexander Nevsky- encouraged Rus not to rebel against Mongols Mongols didn’t destroy as much as they did elsewhere as a result o 2. Swedes (from north) in 1240 for trade routes Alexander Nevsky- surprise attack on Swedes, Rus won! o 3. Teutonic Knights (Germanic military order)- wanted Rus to convert to Catholicism 1242- Alex. Nevsky saves Rus again by a “massacre on ice” o 4. The Tartars- ruled Rus after Mongols, until 1480 Central Asian nomads, spoke Turkish, were Muslims,

17  Comprehension Quiz on Byzantine Empire and Kievan Rus…short 6 question quiz.


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