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Constantinople: A Greek
City
(Istanbul Today)
Justinian’s Code
Corpus Juris Civilis: 1. Digest
2. Code
3. Institutes
4. Novels
• Clarified Roman Law
• Greatest contribution
Istanbul not Constantinople
• Byzantium 600 BCE
• Constantinople 324 CE
• Istanbul 1453 CE
Great Schism
• 1054
• Split between the
Western Roman
Church (Roman
Catholics) and the
Eastern Orthodox
Church