Byzantine Empire and Christian Traditions

Vocabulary flashcards covering the Great Schism, agricultural developments, Persian influence, and the Byzantine Empire.

Church Communication Disagreements

Debates within early Christian communications regarding whether priests should marry, the use of local languages in the church, the nature of God (as in the Trinity), and the placement of icons during worship.

Orthodoxy

Branch of Christianity that influenced the East, spreading throughout Eastern Europe via missionaries Cyril & Methodius.

Catholicism

Branch of Christianity that influenced the West, featuring a hierarchy of bishops & priests heading local churches in Rome.

Cyril & Methodius

Missionaries who spread Orthodoxy throughout Eastern Europe and converted the seivan Bu and other Slavic pooples.

Technology & Agriculture (c. 600 CE)

Period when paper and printing techniques passed through India (600 CE) and new agricultural methods were encouraged, including irrigation, fertilization, crop rotation, and the spread of new foods and industrial crops.

Persian Syncretism

The cultural process where local Persians influenced the beliefs and functioning of caliphates & sultanates, including bureaucracy, capitals at Baghdad and Persepolis, and the adoption of the veil in Islam.

The Byzantine Empire (330 CE - 1453 CE)

The Eastern half of the Roman Empire that split from Rome after 330 CE, continued under Greek rule from the capital Constantinople, and served as a dominant force in economics, politics, trade, & culture until 1453.

Fall of the West (405 CE)

The event in 405 CE where the Western Roman half fell while the East continued under Greek rule and referred to themselves as Romans.

Antioch

A key location where Byzantium connected the Mediterranean to the East via trade through the Silk Road.

Justinian (527-860) and Theodora

Rulers during whose reign Byzantium reached its height and reconquered the West.

Basil the copper hand

Leader associated with 14th-century rebellions that, along with Bubonic plagues and invasions by Arabs & Turks from the 8th to 16th centuries, led to Byzantium's decline in 1453.

Eastern Orthodox Church (1054 CE to present)

Church established following the Great Schism in 1054, which split Christendom into the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church.

Patriarch of Constantinople

The leader set up in the Eastern Orthodox Church as the equivalent of the Pope in Rome, who gave legitimacy to the emperor by anointing him.

Hagia Sophia

Constructed as the primary church of the Eastern Orthodox Church.