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A Byzantine family would typically have two parents and two to three children.

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The Byzantine's often traded Oil, fish, sald, wine. Along with materials such as timber and wax. Manufactured items such as linens, cloth, and ceramics were also traded. As well as luxuries such as silks, perfumes, and spices. The Byzantine Empire was known as the richest empire in history. Since Byzantine was so wealthy, which makes its long period of stability and growth very impressive.

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One of the most important tourist spots in Istanbul is Little Hagia Sophia, which is at only a few minutes' walk from the great Blue Mosque. The building was originally built by the Emperor Justinian from the Byzantine era as the Church of Saints Sergius and Bacchus. The church was converted into a mosque in 1500. The building was part of UNESCO's watch list of endangered monuments, and a lot of hard work has been put into restoring the place. You will see that the place has a new interior and exterior that has been done in Ottoman style and bears no resemblance to the usual Byzantine architecture and design. The restoration work was done carefully, and Hagia Sophia still has certain elements from the 1500s. The place has a unique floor plan that takes the shape of an octagon, and has several columns that have carved marbles. Visitors can pay a visit to the tomb of Huseyin Aga, who was the founder of the mosque. The mosque has a beautiful courtyard that contains a fountain in the centre, and also has several madrassas (religious schools), lodges for dervishes and has shops that sell books, ceramics, and Ottoman manuscripts.

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Did you know that Constantinople is located on the Bosporus River? That means it lies on the edge of Asia and Europe. Since it is surrounded by water, it was easily accessible to other parts of the Roman Empire such as the Black Sea, Danube River, and the Mediterranean.

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5 advancements in Byzantine are musical organs, flamethrowers, hand grenades, water cisterns, and hydraulics. The Byzantines also built the Hagia Sophia. The Hagia Sophia was usually built as a Christian church during 532-537. They built it under the Byzantine Empire Justinian l.

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There was a flat tax on everyone. Farmers would have to pay additional tax depending on the size of their land and their production.

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This is a picture of a palace in Constantinople.(Modern)

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Constantinople was the capital of the Byzantine, Latin, Ottoman, and Roman empires. It was originally made in the seventh century B.C. The capital was later moved to Ankara, and was officially renamed as Istanbul. The original name was Byzantium.

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Churches in the Byzantine Empire often have domed ceilings. They also had marble columns, mosaics, and coffered gold ceilings. (A coffered ceiling is panels in the ceiling that are set back farther than the rest of it) Some churches are the Hagia Sophia, Western Roman Catholic Church, and the Eastern Orthodox Church.

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Did you know that this church in modern times is the second largest Christian church in the world? This church is beautiful, and it played a major role in the Byzantine Empire. Most people attended church a lot in the Byzantine Empire. The emperor had the power to settle manners in the Eastern Orthodox Church.

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360° panorama photo from Turkey by Mehmet Ozcan. In 1204, Byzantine emperor Alexius V Ducas Murtzouphlos fled Constantinople after crusaders invad...

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A typical Byzantine family would have two parents and two to three children.

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Byzantine woman would get married early and were considered the head of the family and the protector of the children even if she was a widow and her kids were still very young.

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The Byzantine Empire was located surrounding the Mediterranean Sea including Italy, Greece, and Turkey. Geography in the Byzantine Empire caused and provided food trade routes, protection from invaders, and transportation.

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The Byzantine Empire was sometimes attacked by the Persian Empire that the Slavs. The downfall of economics and internal political instability also made the powerful Empire destabilize. The Byzantine Empire ended when the Fall of Constantinople happened.

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The Byzantine Empire greatest achievement was creating textbooks. Their medical textbooks held the most knowledge that they had ever known. The idea of a hospital was made through Byzantine medicine.

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The Byzantine Empire's social structure is like most other social structures. The emperor/ king is at the top. Government officials, soldiers, and civil servants below them. Church leaders, wealthy people, merchants are kind of in the middle. Farmers, Shepards, labourers, and enslaved people were at the bottom.

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Icons were images of holy people. They were important to the Byzantine Christian Church, and were believed to have protective properties. In 726-787 CE and 814-843 CE, the Byzantine CHurch was moved by this thing called iconoclasm, which means the 'destruction of images'.

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This is a drawing of Byzantine people playing music. They played three different types of hymns, the troparion, kontakion and kanon. The major instruments they played were Byzantine lyras, bagpipes, organs. The Byzantines preserved traditions from greek and roman cultures like painting, decorating churches with frescoes, mosaics, and preserved ancient texts.

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The Byzantine Empire was known for their longest lasting medieval power and their influence in architecture, art and religion and the law of a lot of Western States, like Russia and Central Europe.

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The Byzantine Empire's capital is Constantinople . It was an ancient greek city and it is in Ankara, Turkey, and is called Istanbul today.

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the Justinian Code is a collection of laws made under the Byzantine Emperor Justinian l, though it did not form a new code. This code is made up of 4 books; Codex Constitutionum, Digesta, Institutiones, and Novellae Constitutiones Post Codicem. The Code of Justinian was written in Latin.

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The Byzantine Empire ended when the Ottomans captured the city. They surrounded Constantinople for 55 days, forcing them to surrender. The Byzantine forces totalled of 7,000 men, and the Ottoman forces consisted of 50,000-80,000 people.