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Today’s goal(s) and how it relates to your class goal.

Today’s goal(s) and how it relates to your class goal. Byzantium. Characteristics of Byzantium Heirs of Roman imperial law and government. Fundamentally Greek in language and culture. Christian state. Byzantium. Political History Roman Decadence Constantine creates “Heaven on Earth”

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Today’s goal(s) and how it relates to your class goal.

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  1. Today’s goal(s) and how it relates to your class goal.

  2. Byzantium • Characteristics of Byzantium • Heirs of Roman imperial law and government. • Fundamentally Greek in language and culture. • Christian state

  3. Byzantium • Political History • Roman Decadence • Constantine creates “Heaven on Earth” • Administration of the empire • Justinian expands Byzantine world power • Civil wars and concentration in the East.

  4. Byzantium • Threats to the Empire • The Arab threat • Slavic and Bulgar threats

  5. Byzantium • GOAL CHECKUP • How well have I worked to achieve my goal for today’s class? • What can I do for the remainder of the period to reach my goal(s) for today?

  6. Byzantium • Byzantine Renaissance • Arabian civil wars • Macedonian Warrior-Emperors • Military Expansion

  7. Byzantium • Fall of Byzantine Empire (1200-1453) • Corruption • Leadership decay • Economic difficulties (Arab expansion) • Military inferiority (lack of gunpowder) • Fall of Constantinople (29 May 1453)

  8. Byzantium • Eastern Orthodox Christianity • Similar to Catholic Church except in its belief the Patriarch of Constantinople was the leader of the Church. • Split with the Western Church (the schism) over the supremacy of the Bishop of Rome in 1054 and other ecclesiastical issues.

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