Byzantine Empire

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,…

While each empire, Roman and Byzantine, were each located along the Mediterranean Sea, they shared multiple similarities and differences that shaped their empires and made them different from one another. Both the Roman and Byzantine Empires had an effective law code, however it changed from the 12 Tables to the Codes of Justinian. Another change that occurred was that the emperors of the Byzantine empire believed that they were part of God’s empire while the Roman empire didn’t really tie…

definition, an empire is: “a major political unit having a territory of great extent or a number of territories or peoples under a single sovereign authority.” Throughout history, there have been hundreds, if not thousands of empires that have risen and fallen over millennia. Some of them stand out more than others. In this paper, three of some of the most powerful empires will be discussed: the Mongol empire, the Byzantine Empire, and the Russian Empire. When one hears the term “Mongol…

Like a permanent marker, the Byzantine Empire dried up over time, but still left marks on our world which will be there forever. In 323 CE, an emperor by the name of Constantine gained control of the Roman Empire and made two incredible changes that drastically changed it for the rest of its time. Constantine legalized the Christian religion and moved the capital of Rome to Byzantine, now known as Istanbul. Other incredible emperors, such as Justinian, were famous for writing "Justinian's Code".…

The author of Lost to the West: The Forgotten Byzantine Empire That Rescued Western Civilization is Lars Brownworth. He was a history and political science high school teacher at Stony Brook School in Stony Brook on Long Island, New York. He created 50 podcast about 12 Byzantine Rulers. He resigned at teaching to write this book. This was his first book he wrote. He wrote many other books after this one. He has a blog that he responds to people who have questions about history. He is married to…

March 2016 Byzantine Empire The Byzantine Empire, sometimes referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire, was the continuation of the Roman Empire in the Middle Ages, when its capital city was Constantinople. It survived the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD and continued to exist for an additional thousand years until it fell to the Ottoman Turks in 1453. It was one of the strongest empire to exist and even though some citizens still referred to it as the Roman Empire, it…

Once the Roman Empire divided, it had form three new empires; Byzantine, Carolingian Empire and the Islamic World. Each of the three heirs all had a great significant within the societies and each left a significant amount of legacy behind within the Middle Ages. In the Byzantine Empire one of the long lasting legacy was the split amongst the church, which divided into what is now the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church. Also, within the Byzantine Empire, architecture was…

period when the Byzantine Empire and the Islamic Caliphates would come into existence. The Byzantine Empire, whose name is derived from a modest market town and fishing village known as Byzantion, was located in the eastern Mediterranean; while the empire of the Islamic Caliphates arose in the Arabian Peninsula. The Byzantine Empire, influenced by Christianity, and the Islamic Caliphates, influenced…

Everyone and their mother knows about the Roman Empire, but do they know about Rome's eastern successor, Byzantium? The Byzantine Empire was originally the eastern half of the failing Roman Empire. Justinian ruled Byzantium in its most powerful age. Justinian was a powerful leader, and those who followed never lived up to him. Byzantium shared many similarities with the Roman Empire. In fact, Justinian revived the Roman Empire through the use of old Roman laws, worshipping a similar religion,…

While the Western Roman Empire crumbled and fell, the Byzantine Empire thrived and prospered. This was mainly due to the fact that Constantinople (which I will be using as an example), a major city that was part of the Byzantine Empire, had better protection from invasions, prosperous commerce, and a stronger military. First off, the Byzantine Empire had better protection from foreign invaders. For example, Constantinople’s location gave it the ability to easily be easily defended.…