The Byzantine Empire

Justinian becomes ruler of the eastern empire

Justinian completes building the Hagia Sophia

Deadly Plague sweeps through Constantinople

Arab armies attack Constantinople

Russians invade Constantinople for the first of three times

Christianity splits into the Roman Catholic Church in the west and the Orthodox Church in the east

Crusading knights from Europe pillage Constantinople

Constantinople falls to Ottoman Turks

He built churches including the Hagia Sophia. Also, he introduced/created the Justinian Code. Lastly, he reconquered some of the Roman Empire.

It killed a lot of people which caused fewer people fewer people growing food and fewer people working the trade. This caused economic problems. Also, there were fewer people in the city.

They made money off of taxing trade and they paid people off not to invade them.

Justinian

-iconoclasm - disagreement of who should be in charge

- caused a political split - first split in the Christian church

- paying people not to attack them - good and in a strategic location - one side of the country was on the water and the other side they just built a wall

Byzantium

a high ranking Byzantine nobleman who took the throne of the Eastern Empire in 527

a body of civil law that controlled Byzantine life

the crowning religious glory of Justinian's building program

the site of wild chariot races in Constantinople

Saint John Chrysostom served in Constantinople from 308-404 as a bishop or a.....

religious images used by eastern Christians in their devotions

when the pope casts an official out of the church