Byzantine Empire by Jillian Knehans

Women of Byzantine

30jknehans — 2024-02-08 15:31:15 UTC

There were a few women rulers, some of which were Theodora and Irene of Athens.
Most women in Byzantine were in the upper classes.
Women were expected to care for the children, marry, and supervise the family home.

Art and Music

30jknehans — 2024-02-08 15:41:54 UTC

Byzantine people used architecture, sculptures, metalwork, and mosaics throughout their art.

A song that represented Byzantine was the "Byzantine Chant"

Roads

30jknehans — 2024-02-12 15:23:48 UTC

The Byzantines inherited the Roman roads. As quoted from oup.com the Byzantines "only rarely built new roads" so they used the ones they had for trade and supplies. They used chariots and palanquins. A palanquin is a box carried on horizontal poles that people may ride in.

30jknehans — 2024-02-12 15:25:58 UTC

The Byzantine Empire is also known as the the Eastern Roman Empire

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this is the banks of the black sea in Bulgaria.

2024-02-12 15:26:15 UTC

Byzantine Justinian code

30gdixon — 2024-02-12 15:31:27 UTC

The Justinian code is a law that helped everything for over 900 years and was created by the roman byzantine empire

Byzantine tax

30gdixon — 2024-02-12 15:35:37 UTC

The byzantine tax is also referred to the Aoporos. The Aporos are like the justinian code just a different kind of law. These taxes are kinda like the taxes we have today.

what they did for fun

30rely — 2024-02-12 15:36:08 UTC

Residents of the empire's capital city, Byzantium, enjoyed watching chariot races, plays and religious processions in the Hippodrome. The carnival Apokreas, in which residents attended torchlight processions in disguise, was very popular.

this is the Aegean Sea,

2024-02-12 15:37:50 UTC

how the Byzantine empire was made

30rely — 2024-02-12 17:03:39 UTC

the roman empire when they got destroyed they split into two different groups one of them was the Byzantine empire. and they were thar for a long time it is a capital city too it came in to power on 306CE.

what the fall Constantinople signafied

30rely — 2024-02-13 15:16:54 UTC

the fall of Constantinople marks the end of the medieval period and the beginning of the early modern period. The city's fall also stood as a turning point in military history!

Hagia Sophia

30jknehans — 2024-02-13 15:20:50 UTC

The Byzantine structure, Hagia Sophia, was one of the greatest monuments in the world. It was built between 532-537 CE, and originally built as a church. Inside, there is beautiful artwork and many mosaics.

30gdixon — 2024-02-13 15:20:56 UTC

Click the link -> (https://www.360cities.net/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&query=Byzantine+trade+between+east+and+west)

This link will lead you to the website 360 cities. The website will show more about the trade of the east and west of byzantine. Some things it will show you are what it looks like where they traded and what they traded

how the the fall of Constantinople affect Christianity

30rely — 2024-02-13 15:22:11 UTC

The Fall of Constantinople resulted in Islam replacing Christianity in this city, and later in larger parts of Europe where the Ottomans invaded. It also resulted in further fighting among Muslim and Christian countries over the following centuries.

Aqueducts

30jknehans — 2024-02-13 15:27:36 UTC

The aqueducts were a series of channels, canals, and bridges that brought water into Byzantine from another city. It was important for them to have a clean water source.

what happened to the people in the fall of Constantinople

30rely — 2024-02-13 15:28:14 UTC

The fall of the city removed what was once a powerful defense for Christian Europe against Muslim invasion, allowing for uninterrupted Ottoman expansion into eastern Europe.

red church

2024-02-13 15:28:33 UTC

",Originally, the church near Perushtitsa had the name of the Virgin, but in time memories faded and the local people started to call it simply the Red Church",. from: Ryan Mueller

how the fall of Constantinople affect people

30rely — 2024-02-13 15:29:53 UTC

a turning point for Western history as it is seen as the end to the Middle Ages and the start of the Renaissance. Scholars fled the city and brought their knowledge to the West [1]. Trade also changed as it severed some of the European trade links with Asia were severed.

icons

2024-02-13 15:35:03 UTC

Architecture

30jknehans — 2024-02-13 17:42:34 UTC

The picture above is of the architecture of the Byzantine Empire.
Architecture was a style of building/designing.
As quoted from Study.com, The architecture was focused mainly on "religious structures that utilize domes, pendentives, composite order capitals, mosaics, an apse, clerestories, and a central-plan design."

why they make the city of Constantinople

30rely — 2024-02-13 20:19:47 UTC

they put the city of constantinople in a pacific location on a harder area it was on the side of a ochin so thay got a lot resources from other countries and so thay got this part of land because it had good soil so thay had crops.

Constantine was fames the reason for that is

30rely — 2024-02-13 20:25:40 UTC

he was the one to introduce christianity and that made a lot of people follow a god and he was famous for that because then thay had something to worship and defend

the fall of constaupl

30rely — 2024-02-13 20:32:33 UTC

the fall of constantinople aloud for Muslim to come and invade and allowing for uninterrupted Ottoman expansion into eastern Europe.

the reason why the Fall of Constantinople is religious is

30rely — 2024-02-13 20:51:55 UTC

the reason Fall of Constantinople is religious is because it the biggest christian capital in the world

Byzantine Army

30gdixon — 2024-02-13 21:15:09 UTC

The byzantine army fought in many wars but one of the greatest wars they fought in was the war against the Ottoman turks from 1299 to 1453

Justinian

30gdixon — 2024-02-13 22:44:34 UTC

Justinian is an emperor that ruled for the byzantine empire. He also created the Justinian code. He made this code because it represents the years of the roman empire.

Palanquin

30jknehans — 2024-02-13 22:51:17 UTC

Threats to the byzantine empire

30gdixon — 2024-02-13 23:02:36 UTC

Some threats that the byzantine empire were concerned about were the Turkish, Persians and Slavs. These were some groups that were near by the byzantine. They had a few small wars and these wars killed many.

golden horn

30rmueller — 2024-02-14 15:22:40 UTC

Agriculture

30rmueller — 2024-02-15 01:18:09 UTC

",The Bulgarians grew all the crops known during that era - rye, barley, millet, oats. The most prevalent among them were wheat and millet", from:Ryan Mueller