ch 9 civilization in eastern europe byzantium and orthodox europe
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CH 9 CIVILIZATION IN EASTERN EUROPE
BYZANTIUM AND ORTHODOX EUROPE
“TWO ROMES” EAST AND WEST
THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE ALLOWS ROMAN IDEAS TO STAY ALIVEIT BECOME MORE GREEK THAN LATIN OVER TIME
BYZANTIUM WAS MORE THAN ‘PART’ OF ROMEIT LATER SURPASSED ROME IN THE 4TH CENTURYIT’S UNIQUE CULTURAL IDENTITY SPREADGREATLY INFLUENCED RUSSIA
PROBLEMS,… INVASIONS
BECAUSE OF IT’S SEPARATION, THEY SURVIVED THE NOMADIC INVASIONS THAT TORE WESTERN ROME APARTEASTERN EMPERORS RULED FROM THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN TO NORTH AFRICA
DEVELOPED A HIGHLY CENTRALIZED GOVERNMENT THAT EMPHASIZED BEAUROCRACY OVER MILITARY POWERTHE CULTURE SHIFTED TO GREEK- AWAY FROM ROMAN IDEAS
JUSTINIAN AND THEODORA
EMPEROR JUSTINIAN
MARRIED TO THEODORA, HIS PARTNER IN RULINGTRIED TO REVIVE A UNIFIED ROMAN EMPIREREBUILT CONSTANTINOPLEALSO BUILT HAGIA SOPHIA
LAW- RESPONSIBLE FOR JUSTINIAN CODE- COLLECTION OF LEGAL PRINCIPLES FOR THE EMPIRERECONQUERED LOST TERRITORIES IN ITALY AND NORTH AFRICA
HIS VICTORIES WERE SHORT LIVED- SOON FELL APARTIN 540 A PANDEMIC STRUCK- THE PLAGUETHIS DISEASE WOULD REAPPEAR FOR CENTURIES, DEVASTATING EUROPE
AFTER THE PLAGUE
JUSTINIAN AND HIS WIFE SURVIVED, HE WITHDREW TO HIS PALACETHE DISEASE WOULD REAPPEAR IN THE 14TH CENTURY IN EUROPE
IT WAS RECORDED THAT FOR A WHILE UP TO 10,000 A DAY DIEDTHERE WERE SO MANY BODIES NO ONE COULD BURY THE DEADTOTAL DEATH TOLL? ~100 MILLION *PANATI PAGES 222-226
AFTER JUSTINIAN
MOSTLY TRIED TO HOLD ONTO THE EASTERN PARTSISLAM WAS PRESSURING THEM AT EVERY TURNCONSTANTINOPLE WAS ATTACKED OVER AND OVER
CONSTANIOPLE UNDER SEIGEFOR MANY YEARS MUSLIM ARMIES TRIED TO TAKE THE CITYSTRONG DEFENSES ALLOWED THE TO HOLD OUTTHEY ALSO USED TECHNOLOGY- ‘GREEK FIRE’FROM 700’S TILL 1453 THEY HELD OFF INVADERS
CONSTANT WAR LED TO HIGHER TAXES, WEAKENING SMALL FARMERSOTHERS ALSO FOUGHT BYZANTINE CONTROL- BULGARS BROKE AWAYTHEY TOOK THE TITLE “TSAR”- CEASAR…CZAR…TSAR…BY 1014 THEY WERE DEFEATED
BYZANTINE POLITICS AND SOCIETY
VERY ORGANIZED GOVERNMENT- SIMILAR TO CHINAEMPEROR WAS THE HEAD OF STATE AND OF THE CHURCHAS IN CHINA- LARGE BUREAUCRACY
ARISTOCRATS HAD MOST OF THE POWER, BUT THERE WAS ROOM TO ADVANCE IN SOCIETYGOVENORS WERE APPPOINTED FROM CONSTANIOPLELOTS OF GOVT SPIES MILITARY SERVICE WAS HEREDITARY- FAIRLY SUCESSFUL
CONSTANTINOPLE
THE CAPITAL WAS THE CENTER OF EVERYTHING, THIS MADE OTHER CITIES IN THE EMPIRE WEAKCONSTANTINOPLE REGULATED ALL TRADE, IF IT FALLS SO DOES TRADE
A TRADE HUB
CONSTANTINOPLE LINKED ASIA, THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTHERN EUROPE IN A TRADING NETWORKLUXURY GOODS SOUGHT MERCHANTS GREW WEALTHY, BUT HAD LITTLE POWER
THE GREAT SPLIT- EAST/WEST
CHRISTANITY SPLITS
BEFORE THIS THERE HAD BEEN ONLY ONE DOMINANT CHRISTIAN CHURCHAS THE EMPIRE GREW APART SO DID CHRISTIANITY
TWO GROUPS- CATHOLICS AND THE ORTHODOX CHURCHSEVERAL ISSUES DIVIDED THEM:THE SUPREMACY OF THE POPE IN ROMEDIFFERING RITUALS USED IN WORSHIP SERVICESTHE USE OF RELIGIOUS ICONS
CHARLEMAGNE BEING CROWNED “ROMAN EMPEROR”WHETHER PRIESTS COULD MARRY THEY COULD NOT IN THE WEST, COULD IN THE EASTFINALLY THE POPE EXCOMMUNICATED THE EASTERN CHURCH- HE WAS IGNORED IN THE EAST
SOME SAY IT WAS THE REAL END OF THE “ROMAN” EMPIREAFTER THIS EACH AREA THEY WOULD MOVE FATHER AND FARTHER APART IN IDEAS AND VALUESBOTH STILL RECOGNIZED THE OTHER AS FELLOW CHRISTIANS
THE DECLINE OF THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE
AFTER THE SPLIT THE EMPIRE WENT INTO A LONG SLIDEMORE INVASIONS - THE SELJUK TURKSTHIS LED TO THE CALL FOR HELP THAT BECAME THE CRUSADES
EVEN AFTER THE SPLIT, ROME STILL RECOGNIZD CONSTANTINOPLE AS A CHRISTIAN CITYTHE DEFEAT AT MANZIKERT SPELLED DOOM FOR THE EMPIRETHE NEED FOR HELP SHIFTED POWER BACK TO THE WEST
THE CRUSADES
THERE WERE MANY, MANY CRUSADESFIRST WAS THE MOST SUCESSFULTHE GOAL WAS TO LIBERATE THE HOLY LAND
THE FIRST CRUSADE WAS THE MOST SUCESSFULCRUSADERS ARE SUPPOSED TO DEFEND CHRISTIANITY, RETAKE THE HOLY LAND4TH CRUSADE STOPS IN CONSTANINOPLE- WRECKS THE CITY, NEVER GETS ANY FARTHER
BYZANTINE EMPIRE BY 1400
THE FINAL FALL
1453 MEHMED II CAPTURES CONSTANTINOPLEBY 1461 THE EMPIRE IS UNDER MUSLIM CONTROL FOR GOOD
MEHMED II
CONSTANTINE XI THE LAST EMPEROR
THE FALL OF THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE ENDED CHRISTAIN DOMINANCE IN THE AREATHEY HAD MAINTAINED TRADE NETWORKS, AND CLASSICAL MEDITERRANEAN LEARNINGNOW THE OTTOMANS WOULD BE SUPREME IN THE AREA
NOT THESE OTTOMANS…
THESE OTTOMANS
THE SPREAD OF CIVILIZATION TO EASTERN EUROPE
MISSIONARIES BROUGHT THE NEW CHRISTAN FAITH TRADE BROUGHT IDEAS ABOUT SOCIETY AND GOVERNMENT, INVENTIONS ETC…
THE CYRILLIC ALPHABET
NAMED AFTER TWO MONKS, CYRIL AND METHODUSDONE SO THAT THEY COULD HELP PEOPLE READ THE BIBLE IN THEIR OWN LANGUAGE
CYRIL AND METHODIUS
THE BORDER AREAS WERE STILL UNDER LOOSE CONTROL BY LOCAL PRINCESJEWS WHO WERE FLEEING WESTERN EUROPE SETTLED IN MANY AREAS, BECAME ACTIVE IN LOCAL TRADE
KIEVAN RUS’VIKING DESCENDANTS BEGAN TO TAKE CONTROL AROUND THE CITY OF KIEVTHIS WAS A TRADE ROUTEVLADIMIR CONVERTED THE WHOLE COUNTRY TO CHRISTIANITYIT’S SAID HE CHOSE CHRISTIANITY AS IT HAD THE FEWEST RESTRICTIONS ON FOOD AND DRINKING
Grandson of Saint Olga. Christianity had made some progress in Kiev, but Vladimir remained pagan, had seven wives, established temples, and participated in idolatrous rites, possibly involving human sacrifice. Around 987, Byzantine Emperor Basil II (976-1025) sought military aid from Vladimir. The two reached a pact for aid that involved Basil's sister Anne in marriage, and Vladimir becoming a Christian. He was baptized and then ordered the Christian conversion of Kiev and Novgorod.
VLADIMIR
THEY WERE ALSO SAID TO BE AWED BY THE SPLENDOR OF THE BYZANTINE CHURCHESORTHODOX CHURCH LEADERS WERE BROUGH IN, BUT THE KING WAS THE HEAD OF THE RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCHYAROSLAV CODIFIED RUSSIAN LAW
YAROSLAV THE WISE
THEY COPIED A LOT FROM BYZANTIUM.THEIR ART FOCUSED ON RELIGIOUS FIGURES, DOMES STRUCTURES ECHOED BYZANTIUMPEASANTS WERE MOSTLY FREE, UNDER LOCAL CONTROL. RUSSIAN ARISTOCRATS (BOYARS )HAD SOME POWERS, THE LOCAL PRINCES HAD THE REST- A BALANCE OF POWER
KIEVAN DECLINE
SUCESSION DISPUTESCONFLICT WITH LOCAL PRINCESBYZANTIUMS FALL CUT OFF TRADE TIESINVASION FROM THE MONGOLS (TATARS)- ITS OK, THE MONGOLS TOOK OVER LOTS OF PLACES AT THIS TIME…
CATHEDRAL OF ST DIMITRI IN KIEV
THE MONGOLSFOR 200 YEARS CONTROLLED MUCH OF PRESENT DAY RUSSIACONQUERED THEM IN THE WINTER- THE ONLY PEOPLE TO EVER DO THATTHIS CUT OFF THE NORTH-SOUTH TRADE AXIS, CUT THEM OFF CULTURALLY AS WELLHAD LITTLE IMPACT ON ORTHODOX RELIGION
GENGHIS
KHAN
THE LOCAL RULERS STILL EXISTED, JUST HAD TO BOW DOWN TO THE MONGOLS, PAY TAXES ETC…WHEN THE MONGOLS WERE KICKED OUT IN 15TH CENTURY, THE LOCAL RULERS, (BOYARS) REEMERGED TO TAKE CONTROL
THE THIRD ROME
RUSSIAN LEADERS REMEMBERED THE GLORIES OF CONSTANTINOPLETHEY FELT THE BURDEN OF CARRYING ON TRADITIONS HAD FALLEN TO RUSSIATHEY CALLED THEMSELVES –
“ THE THIRD ROME”
THE END OF AN ERA
EASTERN EUROPE FELL ON HARD TIMES FOR MANY YEARSWESTERN EUROPE DEVELOPED WITHOUT OUTSIDE INTERFERENCEUNLIKE ROME, OR CHINA, BYZANTINE INFLUENCE DISAPPEARED