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In what ways did the Byzantine Empire rise and fall? The factors presented in this paper will analyze four keys to this question. They are religion, military, economic and foreign influences. After this thorough investigation, it will be shown how the rise and fall of this great Empire was directly influenced by the four key factors listed above. Body Historians today call the ancient Empire located in modern-day Turkey, the Byzantine Empire. The name Byzantine was derived from the word Byzantium

Throughout history the human race has been faced with one key factor that no one civilization has even been able to beat, not the might of the Roman-Byzantine Empire, nor the combined efforts of the entirety of Europe and their scholars could defeat this recurring foe. Pandemics, from the Greek ‘pan’ meaning all, and ‘demos’ meaning people (Harper Etymonline.com), are these indiscriminate killers whom care not for your social standing be it wealth, fame, or glory. Humans have contested with disease

The Byzantium Empire was the Eastern addition to the Roman Empire during the Late Antiquity and The Middle Ages. Established in the Ancient Greek city Byzantion in 330 AD by the Roman Emperor Constantine as the new imperial capital of Rome. Furthermore, he had added duplicates of everything from Old Rome, such as the Coliseum and the Imperial Palace, not including the Pagan temples. The Byzantines had spoken Greek and had more Greek architecture and culture than Roman. The Byzantium Empire had

the Mediterranean, which served the empire as a transit and trading point between the European states and the Asian minor. In 330 CE, the Roman Emperor Constantine the First chose the Greek settlement as the sight for the new Roman capital of Constantinople. In the decades previous to the conquest at the Council of Nicaea, Constantine had established Christian belief amongst the locals, which were once an obscure Jewish sect as the official religion of Rome. The citizens of the newer roman branch

Eastern and Western Empires. Constantinople was the capital of the Byzantine Empire and thrived under the leadership of Justinian, who was the emperor from 527 A.D. to 565 A.D. Although the empire has some Roman influence, it is remarkably different from ancient Rome, with there being markets and products from places unheard of. Justinian also enforced Christianity and built the Hagia Sophia and created a new legal system, the Justinian Code. He also rebuilt Constantinople and made it safe from invasions

*- to add foot notes Constantinople, a great city founded by Constantine the Great, was an advantageous site which lied between Europe and Asia with strategic importance. Acropolis or the City of Byzantion, a Greek city, had already been established in 7th century B.C. long before Constantinople was founded. Around 2nd century AD the city fell into the Romans and became the Roman city of Byzantium. Constantine became the sole emperor(*-time period) of the Roman Empire and this city was chosen as

The plundering and sacking of the greatest metropolis (Constantinople) in the Christian world. Surely, this was not the result that Pope Innocent III had in mind when he called upon the leaders of Europe in 1198 in an attempt to convince them to retake the Holy Land (Jerusalem). Since the death of Saladin, Pope Innocent believed they were at a moment of weakness and it was a great opportunity to take the Holy Land (Robinson). However, they would never get there. Short of resources and men the crusaders

“Byzantine art emerged as a recognizably novel and distinctive style, leaving behind the uncertainties and hesitations of Early Christian artistic experiment” (Culotta). Byzantium end up turning into a beautiful city, later on it was later named “Constantinople”. Art was very well

(Goldsworthy). This portrays exactly how gradual the collapse was of Western Rome and the several events that caused the fall. Primarily, great empires need great leadership. The haste formation of Constantinople by Constantine while

Constantius donated gold and silver as well as religious objects to his church, but these were vandalized by Arians during the Council of 381 AD. Hagia Sophia was first named "Megale Ekklesia" (The Great Church) as it was the largest church in Constantinople. The historian Socrates indicated that the church was named Sophia during the reign of Emperor