Chapter 8: The Byzantine Empire and Emerging Europe – Flashcards

Mainly Latin, but also Greek

-enlarged the political and military reforms enlarged the civil service and army -set a price edict that set wage and price in all empire, currency lost value -reforms based on control and coercion

Document written by Constantine that proclaimed official tolerance of Christianity

476 = end of western Roman emperor -Christianity weakened military virtues -traditional values declined as non-Italians gained prominence -lead poisoning -plague wiped out 1/10 of populations -rome failed to technologically advance due to slavery -rome could not create a workable political system

Christianity grew because of Jesus, Romans persecuted Christians but then the Edict of Milan made Christianity allowed, then it was made the official religion, many emperors Christian, organized under pope, Christian empires prospered

•Ruled under Justinian led to Byzantine empire -a Greek and Christian state -political and church state

simplification of Roman laws, last writing of the time written in Latin

-Justinian wanted to simplify legal materials -Justinian wrote this codification of Roman Law which became the basis of imperial law in the Eastern Roman Empire -Last writing of the time written in Latin -Became the basis of most of Europe's legal system