Constantinople

1. Two of the world’s major religions, Christianity and Judaism, share many similar traits such as monotheistic beliefs, common birthplace, and virtues. Judaism and Christianity believe in the same divine being, God. Around 0 AD, God sent his son down to Earth to spread the word of God, as a prophet. Jews however, believe that Jesus was not the son of God, and are still awaiting the arrival of God’s son to redeem the people. There is also a mutual religious manuscript called the Bible by Christians

Rome was one of the most powerful empires that ever existed. The empire stretched from Britain all the way to Mesopotamia in the East. After much struggle, however, Rome finally fell in A.D. 476. There were many reasons that Rome political, military and social/economic reasons. Many political reasons as to why Rome fell. Rome’s government had weakened, its currency’s value had been reduced, and Rome was split into two parts. Many of Rome’s emperors accepted bribes and were forced to pay increasingly

Christians committed appalling atrocities. The crusades were more negative than positive because they failed their main goal of conquering the holy land instead ruined cities. Document 4 states that the Crusaders stormed and sacked the city of Constantinople ruining the magnificent library and stealing thousands of relics that were sold in Europe,

The Justinian Code was issued from 529 to 534 by Justinian 1 who was a prominent Eastern Roman Emperor. The Justinian Code has three fundamental parts which are the Code or Codex, the Digest of Pandects, and the Institutes. The Code or Codex is a compilation through selection and extraction of the imperial enactments. The Digest of Pandects means a source that is composed of extracts from the writings of a Roman jurist, and the Institute is a student textbook, and it introduces the Code through the

Constantine The Great, he was born on February 27, circa 280, in Naissus, Moesia (now it is Serbia). His father, Flavius Valorous was an officer in the Roman army at that time. Constantine the Great’s mother, Helena, was from humble beginnings; it is unknown whether she was the wife or concubine of Constantius. That marriage was not really a good marriage, so Constantine’s father left Helena to marry the stepdaughter of Maximian, the Western Roman emperor. After sometime Constantine’s father was

parts of Turkey and Thrace in the 13th century, Bulgaria, eastern Europe, and Constantinople in the 14th century, western Asia and southeast Europe in the 15th century, and Crete in the 16th century before their decline. During the mid to late 1400s, Mehmed II was the Sultan. He conquered territories in Anatolia and the Balkans as well as Constantinople, granting him the title of “The Conqueror.” The fall of Constantinople was extremely significant in the growth of power for the Ottomans because it

1430, the Sultan Murad II invaded and conquered land in Hungary and the Balkans. Murad’s son, Mehmed II, became the next Sultan and had one of the most significant campaigns for the Ottomans. In 1453, Mehmed II took advantage of the shrinking Constantinople.

Was the Great Schism a good thing? The Greek and Roman empires were two different and unique places to live. Even though they had many differences, they also had many similarities with one another. One of the biggest similarities between these two great empires was they both practiced the religion of Christianity. People may not know but they practiced different types of Christianity in these two empires. The Romans would practice in Catholic churches while the Greeks would practice in the Orthodox

• The Fall of Constantinople achieved by the Turks in 1453 A.D paved the way for the Renaissance. Many Greek and Roman scholars from libraries at Constantinople fled with valuable literature from libraries at Constantinople, and settled in Europe. They began teaching Greek and Latin. They discovered many works of Greek and Latin literature which had been neglected before. They studied, edited and printed the original editions of many of these works. One prominent scholar was Erasmus. He said that

In the year 330 Constantine founded a new imperial city in the east, which became known as Constantinople. Accompanying Diocletian's system of tetrarchy, the creation of this new city affirmed the separation of the Roman Empire into the east and the west. The Eastern Roman Empire held a series of advantages over the west both socially and economically. The Western Roman Empire was the weaker empire and a bad leadership and government along with attacks from barbarians led to the demise of the Western