The Byzantine Empire played a critical role in preserving and transmitting the ancient Greco-Roman civilization. With laws, culture, language, worldview, and a special relationship with Russia, the Byzantine Empire is an important topic in world history. Laws played a huge role in preserving the Greco-Roman civilization. The Byzantine Empire had an absolute ruler named Justinian. During his reign, Justinian developed a law code derived from Roman laws. Three men were appointed to review, purge, and organize laws. The remaining laws, then became the The Body of Civil Law, also called the Code of Justinian. The Body of Civil Law was the laws and legal opinions that contained four parts. These four parts included a twelve book collection
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The government organized a school system that offered a primary education, teachings in reading, writing, and advanced studies in classical Greek scholarship. Literacy was widespread and deemed extremely important to the culture. The people of the Byzantine Empire possessed and respected both Greek and Roman literature and philosophy. The empire also preserved the traits of Roman history writings. The Byzantine Empire’s literature was written in Greek as well. The Byzantine Empire used literature as well as architecture. A hippodrome was built in order to continue the aspect of architecture from the Greco-Roman civilization. Hippodrome was a term in Greek culture for the stadium used for horse and chariot racing. The largest Hippodrome of the ancient civilizations was the hippodrome of Constantinople. This stadium was simply called “The Hippodrome” and was built from 203 to …show more content…
From her influence he converted to Christianity and forced his followers to convert. In the 1000s, Monk Jacob wrote an account of Vladimir and the Russian’s conversion to Christianity. The Eastern Orthodox church, Roman Catholic church, Judaism, and Islam sent missionaries to present religions to the Russian government. Islam was rejected by Vladimir because it included too much sorrow. Judaism was also unaccepted because of the lack of national success. The Roman Catholics were not because they were considered to be non-enthusiastic. Vladimir made the choice of the Orthodox theology because of the favorable trait of
The government organized a school system that offered a primary education, teachings in reading, writing, and advanced studies in classical Greek scholarship. Literacy was widespread and deemed extremely important to the culture. The people of the Byzantine Empire possessed and respected both Greek and Roman literature and philosophy. The empire also preserved the traits of Roman history writings. The Byzantine Empire’s literature was written in Greek as well. The Byzantine Empire used literature as well as architecture. A hippodrome was built in order to continue the aspect of architecture from the Greco-Roman civilization. Hippodrome was a term in Greek culture for the stadium used for horse and chariot racing. The largest Hippodrome of the ancient civilizations was the hippodrome of Constantinople. This stadium was simply called “The Hippodrome” and was built from 203 to …show more content…
From her influence he converted to Christianity and forced his followers to convert. In the 1000s, Monk Jacob wrote an account of Vladimir and the Russian’s conversion to Christianity. The Eastern Orthodox church, Roman Catholic church, Judaism, and Islam sent missionaries to present religions to the Russian government. Islam was rejected by Vladimir because it included too much sorrow. Judaism was also unaccepted because of the lack of national success. The Roman Catholics were not because they were considered to be non-enthusiastic. Vladimir made the choice of the Orthodox theology because of the favorable trait of