Define the following vocabulary words on your index cards:Byzantine Empire (p 347)Justinian I (p 348)Theodora (p 348)Icon (p 350)Orthodox Church (p 351)Rus (p 357)

Reigned 527-565 AD Wanted to recreate

Roman Empire Re-conquered Italy and

N. Africa Faced down rebellion

with wife Theodora Justinian’s Code –

organized old laws and added his own

Lost land after Justinian, kept Asia Minor & Constantinople

Emperor seen as chosen by God, spiritual and political power

Centered on Greek culture, Christianity

Iconoclast movement 1054 schism

o East – Orthodox, west- Roman Catholic Church

Center for East-West trade until 12th Cen. Many beautiful buildings: palace, Hippodrome Hagia Sophia – church built w/ dome on 4

pillars, many windows under dome, appeared to float

Invasions by Turks overwhelmed Byzantines 1096- European Christians went on a

‘crusade’ to help fight the Turks who were also Muslim…thus it became a HOLY WAR. (we will come back to this!!!!)

1453 – Constantinople falls to Ottoman Turkso Changes name to Istanbul

Using p. 350- 351 create a 2-column chart on the differences between the Orthodox Church and Roman Catholic Church

Issue:Orthodox Church Roman Catholic

Church

Read pages 357 – 360 and complete the graphic organizer.

Objective: Analyze how the Rus

affected the early history of Kiev, the factors that helped establish Christianity in Russia, and what people groups attacked Russia.

Name:

Oleg Yaroslav the Wise

Cyril and Methodius

Vlad 1st Alexander Nevsky

Who:

What:

Why:

When/ Where:

Beginnings and Growth: (add all in yellow to notes) Russian Primary Chronicle tells of the early Slavic peoples,

written in 1100s, telling of the people in mid-800AD Constant fighting, invited the Rus (northern Europeans) to

govern Oleg- 2nd ruler

o expanded territory south to Kievo attacked Constantinopleo successful trade union with Byzantines

Slavic regions become formal state- Kievan Rus Yaroslav the Wise

o had religious books translated from Greek into Slavico Russian law was codifiedo Regained lost territory; but was crushed when attacked

Constantinople o Good relations w/ Western Europe through daughters’

marriages

Early Slavic religion- polytheistic based on nature 863- Cyril and Methodius-

o brothers and Greek monks who used the Slavic language to convert Slavs

o Developed written alphabet for Slavonic languageo Called Cyrillic alphabeto Based on Greek alphabet

Vladimir I- Grand Duke of Kiev converted, married sister of Byzantine emperoro Built libraries, schools, churcheso 988- Vlad made Christianity state religion of Kievan Rus

After the Great Schism- o became semi-independent of Orthodox in

Constantinopleo “Russian Orthodox Church”

State weakened internally from land-owning princeso New Grand Prince Andrew Bogolyubsky moves central

city away from Kiev (places family in Kiev) Power no longer centralized, easy to attack Attacked by:

o 1. Mongols(from east under Genghis Khan)- 1223 and were defeated. Kiev falls in 1240 to Mongols.• Alexander Nevsky- encouraged Rus not to rebel against Mongols• Mongols didn’t destroy as much as they did elsewhere as a result

o 2. Swedes (from north) in 1240 for trade routes • Alexander Nevsky- surprise attack on Swedes, Rus won!

o 3. Teutonic Knights (Germanic military order)- • wanted Rus to convert to Catholicism• 1242- Alex. Nevsky saves Rus again by a “massacre on ice”

o 4. The Tartars- ruled Rus after Mongols, until 1480• Central Asian nomads, spoke Turkish, were Muslims,