Constantinople

Christianity as the official religion of the empire. Following the establishment of two separate sections, with separate capitals, the Roman Empire acknowledged that they were two different worlds, especially after the decline of Rome and the rise of Constantinople by the turn of the 4th century. Emperor Constantine did his best to ensure its supremacy and unity under his command in particular by way of the results of the Council of Nicaea (325), the first of its kind, founding a uniform…

take back the Holy Lands from the evil Saracens’ hands. We worked diligently and efficiently to meet our objectives for the good of the crusaders, Greeks, and Christian world. Some may disagree with the crusaders’ second attack on Constantinople and fellow Christians,…

In the first few centuries A.D. Christians were rounded up and killed for their beliefs. When Constantine became the Roman Emperor in 306 A.D. things changed. The church became very powerful in the Roman Empire. In 476 A.D. Rome fell and Christianity was one of the many factors that caused it to fall. Christianity had several effects on the Roman Empire. There were religious, cultural, economic, and political issues in the Empire that were caused by the rise of Christianity. Some people say…

Firstly, Constantinople/Byzantium was highly protected by three walls each 25 feet thick, a 22 feet deep moat, and about 96 towers on the walls with archers launching arrows at the anticipated enemies (doc B). If Constantinople was not as well protected as it was then, people today would not be as well protected as they are because we would not have known about the brilliant…

These areas were worried of the same fate that happened to Constantinople. Our only hope is that more of the Western areas will be able to put up greater resistance to the Turks. As a result, all of us Christians are now very fearful of Mehmed. For we hear he is now planning to continue up the Danube river to find…

Byzantine was an empire lost to the void of time, its memory wiped from minds of all. Lars Brownworth, an established author, tried to do justice to the book and offer a voice to the ones drowned out by the pages of history. He told the stories of a great empire that served as a ground of rebirth for a crumbling Rome, rescuing it from a certain doom, in an attempt to expose one to the history of Byzantine vast enough to rival the lands of the empire during the reign of Justinian. The author…

as soon as possible. Nun: It seems to have recovered well from the inferno. Narrator 2: The original church was damaged in 404 A.D. by a fire that erupted during a riot following the second banishment of St. John Chrysostom, the patriarch of Constantinople at that time. Justinian: Yes it does, do you happen to know where the monk is? Patriarch: I haven’t seen him in a while. Have you Sister Camilla? Nun: I recall he went to check on…

crucial points in the history of Christianity. The Catholic Church was largely affected by the Iconoclastic movement during that time and the continued growth and popularity of religion was tested. Both the Decree of the Iconoclast Council of Constantinople and the Decree of Second Nicea shaped the Byzantine Empire during the time of Constantine V and Leo III’s rule. During the time when Iconoclasm was in high popularity and religious imagery, specifically regarding Christianity and the Church,…

Byzantium was a great ancient Greek city state founded around 600 BC named after its king Byzas, the leader of the Megarean colonists and founder of the city. He settled in Constantinople because of the spin strip of water that connected Asian to Europe and the black sea to the Mediterranean. Byzantium now means old or devious but during its 1100 years it was the savior to the western world’s profound heritage of long literature but it has also put Christianity on fast track and along the way…

capital city of Constantinople thrived for more than thousands of years and helped shape the history of the modern world (Overview)". The Byzantines were essential because they had good ways of developing architecture and engineering, they modernized, and saved Christianity, and they helped save the legal code to make what it is today. Without these essential qualities from the Byzantines America wouldn’t be what it is today... a free country. “Had the Arabs captured Constantinople in the…