Byzantine Notes

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5,000 laws, the Digest summarized Rome's legal thinkers about law, the Institutes was a book that told law students how to use laws, and the Novellae presented legislation after the year 565AD.

-These laws have continued to serve modern day governments with laws in the Civil field.

Creating the Imperial Capital

-Justinian rebuilt military fortifications of Constantinople and ringed the coast with a stone wall.

-On the inland the city was protected by 3 walls, the innermost being the most well defended.

-Justinian also commissioned several religious works including the Hagia Sophia.

-He also built many public works like bathhouses, aqueducts, law courts, schools, and hospitals.

Constantinople

-Constantinople was a large trading hub for products all over the world. Including Asia, Europe and Africa.

-Entertainment was found at the Hippodrome a chariot racing stadium and facilitator.

-However two chariot teams sparked riots against the ...

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rules for monk life and St. John who was a bishop or patriarch of the church.

-However a controversy was created when Byzantine Emperor Leo III banned the use of icons.

-The emperor had great sway on his people and iconoclasts began to destroy icons and riot.

-While the Catholics supported icons and began to fight back even having one of their popes ordering the excommunication of the Byzantine emperor.

-More than 100 years later the Eastern Church brought icons however a divide had been created by the two churches this is call a schism.

Byzantines convert the Slavs

-Missionaries of Eastern Orthodoxy went north and converted the Slavic people.

-Among the many the ...

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