Crash Course World History – Flashcards
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When did the Barbarians conquer the city of Rome
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476 CE
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Who was the last emperor of Rome
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Romulus Agustus
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Romulus Agustus
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Emperor reigning over the Western Roman Empire from 31 October AD 475 until 4 September AD 476.
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Why did Rome fall
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- The army was filled with foreign citizens who did not care about the empire as a whole, they were only loyal to their commanders - Civil war after every general who declared himself the emperor of Rome
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What were the sartorial of the new general-emperors of Rome
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- The most practical and most barbaric: pants
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Where was the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire
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Byzantium
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Byzantium
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A city on Bosporus Strait that Constantine would later rename Constantinople
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What was the new religion that Constantine tried to re-orient in the East
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Christianity
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Where and when was the first church council held
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Nicaea in 325 CE
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What was the new idea that came about relating to the empire and the church
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The emperor had greater control over the church
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What was the continuity when it came to entertainment
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Sports
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Justinian I or Justinian the Great
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- Published his code of laws in 533 - Born a peasant somewhere in the Balkans and rose to become an emperor
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When did Justinian become emperor of the Byzantine Empire, and how long did his rule last
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- 527 - Ruled for almost 30 years
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How did Justinian restore the glory of the Roman Empire
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- Reconquered Carthage, Rome from the Goths (but not for long) - Responsible for the great church of all time, the Hagia Sophia
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Hagia Sophia
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- Also known as the Church of Saint Wisdom - Built as a Christian church, converted to a mosque in 1453 - Made into a museum in the middle of the 20th century
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Theodora
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- Justinian's wife - Save her husband's rule by convincing him not to flee the city during riots between the blues and the greens - Also mentored a eunuch who went on to become a hugely important general
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How did Theodora save her husband's rule during the riots between the blues and the greens
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By convincing him not to flee the city
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Blues and Greens (as a whole)
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- Political factions in the Byzantine Empire in the 6th century -Took their names from two of the four colors worn by the circus charioteers - Their clashes were intensified by religious differences. - In 532 the two factions joined in the Nika revolt against Emperor Justinian I and Empress Theodora.
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The Greens
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- Represented Monophysitism and the lower classes
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Monophysitism
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A Christian heresy of the 5th and 6th centuries that challenged the orthodox definition of the two natures (human and divine) in Jesus and instead believed there was a single divine nature
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The Blues
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- Represented Orthodoxy and the Upper classes.
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Nika Revolt
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- Took place over the course of a week in Constantinople in AD 532 - It was the most violent riot in the history of Constantinople, with nearly half the city being burned or destroyed and tens of thousands of people killed.
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What form of Christianity did the Byzantines follow
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- Eastern Orthodox or sometimes - Greek Orthodox
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What was the difference between the Western and Eastern Christianity
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- In the West there was a Pope and in the East there was a Patriarch
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Pope
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- Head of the Roman Catholic Church - Serves as god's regent on earth and he doesn't answer to any secular ruler
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Patriarch
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Greek Orthodox Church. the head of any of the ancient sees of Alexandria, Antioch, Constantinople, or Jerusalem, and sometimes including other sees of chief cities.
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Justinian Law Code (present time)
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Continues to be the basis for much of civil law in Europe
