1. Rainbow Reading HA #6 VSC –6.0 Read to be informed & build meaning from text –4.0 Analyze the decisions that people made based upon resources and trade of goods and services 12/6/20151

2. 2 Byzantine Empire 10/09/12 Key ? Outcome What was daily life like in the Byzantine Empire? Use evidence to support your ideas. Use understandings from the reading during class discussion to answer social studies questions Warm-up Write a content sentence for the word icon Content Sentences: a sentence, word used, meaning & content correctly shown.

3. Agenda Small group discussion Jigsaw Notes (whole group) 12/6/20153

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5. 5 Constantinople Capital city of the Byzantine Empire

6. 12/6/20156 6.2 Constantinople Why was Constantinople ideally located to be the capital of the Byzantine Empire? –Easy to defend –Lay at the crossroads of many sea and land trade routes linking the east and the west

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8. 8 6.2 Constantinople 2. What were some of Constantinople’s main features? - peninsula - miles of walls with watchtowers & gates on the land side - large chain protecting the mouth of the harbor - sewer system - hospitals - homes for the elderly - orphanages

9. 12/6/20159 Places to live Cappadocian houses were made into the foot of the mountains. Rock was the only construction material for the region.

10. 12/6/201510 6.2 Constantinople 3. What was daily life like in Constantinople? - more advanced than in western Europe - language and culture were Greek - many languages spoken b/c they had traders and visitors fm many different places - most people lived in poverty - chariot races - emperor had the unemployed work on the public works project in exchange for bread

11. 12/6/201511 Emperor Justinian I

12. 12/6/201512 6.3 The reign of Justinian I 1. What event forced Justinian to start rebuilding parts of Constantinople? - large parts of the city were ruined when fighting in the Hippodrome spilled into the streets and escalated into a rebellion

13. 12/6/201513 Saint Sophia’s Largest enclosed space in the world for one thousand years.

14. 12/6/201514 6.3 The Reign of Justinian I 2. What were some of the improvements made to Constantinople as a result of Justinian’s public works project? Bridges Public baths Parks Roads Hospitals Hagia Sophia (grand cathedral)

15. 12/6/201515 6.3 The Reign of Justinian I 3. How has Justinian’s Code affected the modern world? - basis for many legal codes in the western world

16. 12/6/201516 Modern view Today’s Istanbul (formally Constantinople)

17. 12/6/201517 Eastern Orthodox Church

18. 12/6/201518 6.4 The Eastern Orthodox Church 1. What was the relationship between religion and government in the Byzantine Empire? - they were closely linked b/c the emperor was believed to be both the head of the government and the living representative of Jesus Christ - He held political and religious power

19. 12/6/201519 Interior of Hagia Sophia

20. 12/6/201520 6.4 The Eastern Orthodox Church How did the Eastern Orthodox Church play a central role in the daily life of Byzantines? –Most people attended church regularly & received sacraments at all stages of their lives –Monasteries and convents cared for the poor and the sick

21. 12/6/201521 Emperor Leo III

22. 12/6/201522 6.5 Conflict Between East and West 1. Why did Byzantine emperor Leo III forbid the use of icons in 730? How did the pope react to Leo’s order? - Leo III believed that people were wrongly worshiping the icons rather than God. - Pope Gregory III excommunicated the emperor!

23. 12/6/201523 Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne!

24. 12/6/201524 6.5 Conflict Between East & West 2. What event in 800 increased tensions between the east and west? - Leo III crowned Charlemagne, the king of the Franks, as Holy Roman emperor. This outraged the Byzantines, who felt they were the rightful rulers of the Roman Empire.

25. 12/6/201525 The Vatican & the Great Schism

26. 12/6/201526 6.5 Conflict Between East & West 3. How did the relationship between the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church change in 1054? - a schism, or formal division resulted in the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church becoming two separate Christian churches.