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justinianor Parthenon
The unifying force in the Byzantine empire was the church . In the church the priests were the hiqhest class & this was also true in their society. The peasants were their worshippers. The church was a way to get the lower class to follow the government by connecting it to the leader . Social classes in church apply to the government .
The Byzantine Empire was formed from the remains of the roman empire. Constantine the Great became Emperor of what was left of the Roman Empire in around 324 ad/ce. He moved the capitol of the Empire from Rome, which was basically in ruins having been continuously sacked by barbarians, to Byzantium which he renamed Constantinople in 330ad/ce. This marked the beginning of what we call the Byzantine Empire, though at the time they still considered it the Roman Empire. The Byzantine Empire lasted 1123 years and 18 days(Philip Mansel). It went through periods of prosperity war expansion more war and then disintegration like all other empires and in 1453 the city of Constantinople was all that was left of the Byzantine empire. The territory it used to hole had long since been lost or fallen to the Ottomans, a nomadic Muslim people whose leader, the Sultan, was descendant from Osman(a great conquerer and leader). The Ottomans conquered Constantinople under the leadership of young Sultan Mehmet II in 1453 and this dynasty reigned till the collapse of the empire in the early 1900's. At this point the modern state of Turkey was formed and Constantinople had its name changed to Istanbul.
The Christians of the Byzantine Empire did not want to recognize the pope in Rome as their leader, so in 1054 they agreed to divide from the Catholic Church and form their own branch of Christianity. This divide was called the great schism.
Vladimir
Justinian and his wife, empress Theodora.
Mustafa Kemal Pasha.
justinianor Parthenon
The Pope.
The Byzantine Empire was an Empire, with one Roman (Byzantine) Emperor heading it. The Emperor had full control of the Church, and assigned governors to multiple administrative divisions called themas, or Themes. Unlike the Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church was controlled by the Byzantine emperor. A patriarch would be in Constantinople as the main religious leader over all the bishops and priests. The Empire had suffered many different Civil Wars, and changing hands of dynasties, and even was separated into multiple states at one point with the sacking of Constantinople by Venetian Republic's crusaders, with the three major states at that time being the Despotate of Epirus, Empire of Trebizond, and the Empire of Nicaea. The Empire of Nicaea eventually defeated the Latin Empire left behind by the Venetians in Constantinople, and they retook the City, becoming the new Byzantine Empire.
the leader of the Byzantine Church was called the Metropolitans.
Zarathustra.
The Ottomans were led by the Sultan in political matter and the Caliph in religious matters.
The unifying force in the Byzantine empire was the church . In the church the priests were the hiqhest class & this was also true in their society. The peasants were their worshippers. The church was a way to get the lower class to follow the government by connecting it to the leader . Social classes in church apply to the government .
He was a religious leader who preached Ahura Mazda - the origins of today's Zoroastrians/Parsees.
The Byzantine Empire was formed from the remains of the roman empire. Constantine the Great became Emperor of what was left of the Roman Empire in around 324 ad/ce. He moved the capitol of the Empire from Rome, which was basically in ruins having been continuously sacked by barbarians, to Byzantium which he renamed Constantinople in 330ad/ce. This marked the beginning of what we call the Byzantine Empire, though at the time they still considered it the Roman Empire. The Byzantine Empire lasted 1123 years and 18 days(Philip Mansel). It went through periods of prosperity war expansion more war and then disintegration like all other empires and in 1453 the city of Constantinople was all that was left of the Byzantine empire. The territory it used to hole had long since been lost or fallen to the Ottomans, a nomadic Muslim people whose leader, the Sultan, was descendant from Osman(a great conquerer and leader). The Ottomans conquered Constantinople under the leadership of young Sultan Mehmet II in 1453 and this dynasty reigned till the collapse of the empire in the early 1900's. At this point the modern state of Turkey was formed and Constantinople had its name changed to Istanbul.