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How did Empress Theodora influence the Byzantine Empire, particularly in terms of women's rights and the Nika Riots?

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How did Empress Theodora influence the Byzantine Empire, particularly in terms of women's rights and the Nika Riots?

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What was the Great Schism, and what were the main causes of the division between the Catholic and Orthodox Churches?

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What was the Great Schism, and what were the main causes of the division between the Catholic and Orthodox Churches?

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What was Justinian’s Code, and how did it impact future legal systems?

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What was Justinian’s Code, and how did it impact future legal systems?

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What were some of Emperor Justinian’s most important accomplishments?

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What were some of Emperor Justinian’s most important accomplishments?

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What was iconoclasm, and why did it cause controversy within the Byzantine Empire?

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What was iconoclasm, and why did it cause controversy within the Byzantine Empire?

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What role did Constantine play in the spread of Christianity, and why was Constantinople significant?

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What role did Constantine play in the spread of Christianity, and why was Constantinople significant?

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Why was Constantinople an ideal location for the capital of the Byzantine Empire?

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Why was Constantinople an ideal location for the capital of the Byzantine Empire?

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Constantine made Christianity legal and supported and rewarded people who converted to christianity. He moved the capital to Constantinople and made it a more Christian city.

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he made christianity the prime religeion of Rome and moved the capital to constantinople because that is were the christians were.

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Constantine was the first emperor who became Christian and supported it too. He let other Christians do religious activities without fear of getting persecuted. Constantinople was significant because it became the capital of the Christian-Roman empire, and had the famous Hagia-Sophia Church people came from far away to visit.

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it was on a peninsula and it being on the golden horn allowed them to control the flow of trade which gave them more resource through taxing travelers and made trade more organized.

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Constantinople was a peninsula which made it easier to defend. It's location next to the Bosphorus straight allowed them to control lots of trade routes. And because it was built on a hill, they could see all incoming ships and invaders.

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Constantinople was an ideal location because it was a peninsula, meaning it was naturally guarded and it was near asia and europe which gave them access to diffrent materials and food.

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the hagia sophia and writing the justinian code which were a set of laws that helped stabalize the empire.

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It was a set of laws that helped stabalize the empire and gave roman rights.

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Justinian made the Justinian code which influenced law systems for centuries. He also built the Hagia Sophia, a massive church still standing today, and regained old Roman territory.

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The idea that there should be no praying to icons but to gods.

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Justinian code which made Rome more stable. He also built a lot of buildings like the Hagia Sophia.

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It organized and codified existing Roman legal laws. It helped lay out future law systems especially in Europe.

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It was the divide between greek orthodox and cathlioc christian which was caused by cultural diffrences.

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The Justinian code was a law system made by Justinian that simplified and reformed Roman law. It impacted many future law systems because of its somewhat equal rights and it was simplified Roman law.

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The destruction of images or icons. It started contaverty because some people thought that the pictures were a helpful visual representation of faith and others thougut that they could end up worshiping the image and not the person they were supposed to be worshiping to.

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Justinian had many important accomplishments such as building the Hagia Sophia, took over most of the Roman Empire's territory, North Africa, Italy, and parts of Spain, and he wrote the Justinian code with his wife, Empress Theodora.

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she had Justinian change laws and gave more rights to woman and in the Nika riots she convinced the army to fight rather then surrendor.

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The Great Schism was caused by the conflict over iconoclasm.  The Roman Catholic Church was against Iconoclasm because icons were an important part of their worship. The Eastern Orthodox Church believes that icons are against the Bible. The Byzantine emperors wanted to show their power over the church practices, including the use of icons.

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Iconoclasm is being against icons, destroying icons, and prosecuting people who worshipped icons. It caused controversy because many emperors such as Leo III did not like icons, but the Pope did. This caused tension between the Pope and the Emperor.

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Empress Theodora advanced women’s rights during the Byzantine empire by creating laws to protect women from forced prostitution, she granted women to own property, protected women against forced marriages and provided more rights with inheritance for widows, and she supported female convents and gave nuns a place in religious life.

Also, During the Nika Riots, while her husband, Emperor Justinian was ready to flee, Empress Theodora counseled the generals to brutally suppress the rioters. Her decisive action resulted in the deaths of thousands of protectors, but also kept her husband from abandoning his rule. She showed strength and courage in the face of a crisis.

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Iconoclasm is when a religion believes that you should not praise icons. It caused controversy in the Empire because it sparked a big religious disagreement over the praise of icons,with some of them believing that honoring icons was like praying against the commandment, while others argued that icons were valuable for showing dedication.

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The Great Schism was the division of Christianity into Eastern Orthodox and Western Catholic. Some reasons for the split were language, Iconoclasm, and who the supreme figure was.