Byzantine Empire

Vocabulary

Constantinople

•The capital of the Roman

Empire(Byzantine Empire) and largest

city in Europe at its time.

Justinian

• Byzantine emperor (527-

565) who held the eastern frontier of his empir

e against the Persians and reconquered former

Roman territories in Africa, Italy, and Spain. H

e ruled jointly with his wife, Theodora.

Justinian’s Code

• the legal code of ancient Rome;

codified under Justinian; the basis for

many modern systems of civil law

Autocrat

• someone who insists on complete

obedience from others; an imperious or

domineering person

•Tyranny, dictatorship, Kings/Queens

Patriarch

• a person regarded as the father or founder

of an order, class, etc.

Byzantine Icons

• Icons (from the Greek eikones) are sacred

images representing the saints, Christ,

and the Virgin Mary.

Great Schism (Christian Schism)

•Long-standing differences between

Western and Eastern Christians finally

caused a definitive break, and Roman

Catholics and Eastern Orthodox still

remain separate.

Constantine

• Emperor of Rome who stopped the persecution of Christians and in 324 made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire; in 330 he moved his capital from Rome to Byzantium and renamed it Constantinople (280-337)

New Rome

• was a name given by the Roman Emperor

Constantine the Great in 330 AD to his new imperial

capital at the city on the European coast of the

Bosporus strait, also known as Byzantium until then,

and as Kōnstantinoúpolis (Constantinople).

Christianity

• the religion based on the person and

teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, or its

beliefs and practices

Byzantine Empire

• the continuation of the Roman Empire in

the Greek-speaking, eastern part of the

Mediterranean. Christian in nature, it was

perennially at war with the Muslims

Iconoclast Controversy

•a dispute over the use of religious

images (icons) in the Byzantine

Empire in the 8th and 9th centuries.

Ottoman Turks

•Groups of Turkish people who

worked for the Byzantine Empire and

eventually banded together to attack

and end the Byzantine Empire

Mehmed the Conqueror

• known as The Conqueror is one of the

famous sultans of Ottoman Empire with

his intelligence. Mehmed II ruled the

Ottoman for a brief time, from 1444 to

1446

Suleyman the Magnificent

• had reigned for forty six years (1520-1566) and this is the most memorable epoch of the empire, when it reached a pitch of grandeur and prosperity which was never afterwards surpassed, and from which it soon began to decline.

Western Roman Empire

• an empire established by Augustus in 27

BC and divided in AD 395 into

the Western Roman Empire and the

eastern or Byzantine Empire; at its peak

lands in Europe and Africa and Asia were

ruled by ancient Rome.

Orthodox Christian

• The form of Christianity maintained by the

EasternOrthodox Church. Orthodox means “correct

in teaching”; Orthodox Christiansconsider the

Roman Catholic Church and the Protestant churches

to be incorrect in some teachings, including the

relations between the persons of the Trinity.

Roman Catholic Church

• a Christian church having a hierarchy of

priests and bishops under the pope, a liturgy

centered in the Mass, veneration of the Virgin

Mary and saints, clerical celibacy, and a body

of dogma including transubstantiation and

papal infallibility.