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Byzantine Empire
Vocabulary
Constantinople
•The capital of the Roman
Empire(Byzantine Empire) and largest
city in Europe at its time.
Justinian
• Byzantine emperor (527-
565) who held the eastern frontier of his empir
e against the Persians and reconquered former
Roman territories in Africa, Italy, and Spain. H
e ruled jointly with his wife, Theodora.
Justinian’s Code
• the legal code of ancient Rome;
codified under Justinian; the basis for
many modern systems of civil law
Autocrat
• someone who insists on complete
obedience from others; an imperious or
domineering person
•Tyranny, dictatorship, Kings/Queens
Patriarch
• a person regarded as the father or founder
of an order, class, etc.
Byzantine Icons
• Icons (from the Greek eikones) are sacred
images representing the saints, Christ,
and the Virgin Mary.
Great Schism (Christian Schism)
•Long-standing differences between
Western and Eastern Christians finally
caused a definitive break, and Roman
Catholics and Eastern Orthodox still
remain separate.
Constantine
• Emperor of Rome who stopped the persecution of Christians and in 324 made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire; in 330 he moved his capital from Rome to Byzantium and renamed it Constantinople (280-337)
New Rome
• was a name given by the Roman Emperor
Constantine the Great in 330 AD to his new imperial
capital at the city on the European coast of the
Bosporus strait, also known as Byzantium until then,
and as Kōnstantinoúpolis (Constantinople).
Christianity
• the religion based on the person and
teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, or its
beliefs and practices
Byzantine Empire
• the continuation of the Roman Empire in
the Greek-speaking, eastern part of the
Mediterranean. Christian in nature, it was
perennially at war with the Muslims
Iconoclast Controversy
•a dispute over the use of religious
images (icons) in the Byzantine
Empire in the 8th and 9th centuries.
Ottoman Turks
•Groups of Turkish people who
worked for the Byzantine Empire and
eventually banded together to attack
and end the Byzantine Empire
Mehmed the Conqueror
• known as The Conqueror is one of the
famous sultans of Ottoman Empire with
his intelligence. Mehmed II ruled the
Ottoman for a brief time, from 1444 to
1446
Suleyman the Magnificent
• had reigned for forty six years (1520-1566) and this is the most memorable epoch of the empire, when it reached a pitch of grandeur and prosperity which was never afterwards surpassed, and from which it soon began to decline.
Western Roman Empire
• an empire established by Augustus in 27
BC and divided in AD 395 into
the Western Roman Empire and the
eastern or Byzantine Empire; at its peak
lands in Europe and Africa and Asia were
ruled by ancient Rome.
Orthodox Christian
• The form of Christianity maintained by the
EasternOrthodox Church. Orthodox means “correct
in teaching”; Orthodox Christiansconsider the
Roman Catholic Church and the Protestant churches
to be incorrect in some teachings, including the
relations between the persons of the Trinity.
Roman Catholic Church
• a Christian church having a hierarchy of
priests and bishops under the pope, a liturgy
centered in the Mass, veneration of the Virgin
Mary and saints, clerical celibacy, and a body
of dogma including transubstantiation and
papal infallibility.