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 The Trade Between the East and the West

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 The Trade Between the East and the West

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They traded a lot in the Byzantine Empire but they mostly traded olive oil, wine, wheat, honey, and fish sauce. Because of its location between Asia and Europe the East and the West had great trading.

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The Social Classes were a very important part of the Byzantine Empire. The Empire was always the most important and highest ranked people in the social life. All of government officials were the second highest ranked of the people in the Byzantine Empire because they assisted in making the military, financial decisions, and laws. Next are the soldiers. They were important because they protected the Byzantine Empire. Right in the middle were the merchants. They made all of the goods that people traded and some of the clothes that people wore in the Byzantine Empire. Next were the artisans. They were important because they made weapons, jewelry, pottery, glass, and helped with leather. One more down were the farmers. They made and harvested all of the food that everyone ate. Lastly, were the slaves. They were treated horribly and they did most of the work at their owner's house.

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The Byzantine empire specialized in building domes and all different kinds of religious buildings they loved building with gold and built most of their ceilings with gold. They built many vaults and had some of the most skilled builders in the world.

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Constantinople was the capital of the Byzantine Empire and it was in the modern day area called of Turkey. The Constantinople time was about from 330 AD to 1453 AD. When Constantinople caught on fire on June 5 1870 killing about 2,000 people. Soon after they built it back up.

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The Byzantine empire's religion was mostly Orthodox Christianity. The law against law praying icons was that Images of holy figures and icons were not allowed to be created. Many popes were chosen by the apocrisarii.

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The land was mostly surrounded by the Mediterranean sea. They got most food from the Mediterranean.

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The Byzantine Empire was very wealthy which meant that they had lots of valuable materials. A lot of their wealth came from trade, taxation, war, and art. A very suffeciful leader was Emperor Justinian I. He very powerful because the Byzantine Empire was the richest and most powerful empire's at that time.

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Taxes were very important in Byzantine Empire because that's how they made money for their military and things like that. The Byzantine Empire was very rich so most likely the taxes were pretty high but manageable.

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Do you think that taxes should be more or less money

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The Woman in the Byzantine Empire were usually towards the upper class. Their main jobs were that they were expected to take care of kids, clean, and cook. They would do all of these jobs when the men were working out in the fields. Although most women did not some woman took some responsibility with doing some male jobs.

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Do you think that it was right for woman to do some male jobs

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The fall of Constantinople happened on May 29 1493 the fall of Constantinople happened after 55 days of fighting in between the Byzantine Empire and the Ottoman Empire this battle sent the Byzantine Empire into a downwards spiral.

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The Byzantine empire crusaders were some of the most powerful people in the world. They dealt a devastating blow to the Byzantine Empire by making them lose territory, wealth, and man power which lead up to the eventual down fall of the empire.

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Byzantine Empire Crusaders Primary source

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The Aegean Sea is part of the mediterranean sea. They used the sea for the Byzantine navy.

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The eastern Orthodox church was the biggest Christian church. It is also known as the Greek Orthodox church.

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The Catholic church is known as the Roman church. The Byzantines mostly used a Catholic church rather than an Orthodox church.

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Byzantines mostly relied on garden vegetables Lettuce, leeks, turnips, and cabbage. Grapes were a major part in their life especially for wine.

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This building is very important to the Byzantine empire, because it is the main religious and sacred place that existed in the Byzantine Empire. This is also where all the Byzantine Greeks did their worshiping and this is were most of the empires political debates would be solved it took 5 years and 10 months to build this structure.

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Constantine was a very powerful Greek ruler