Roman History-Byzantine????

Question

Can someone summarize the Byzantine Empire of ancient Rome???

Containing Justinian and Ravenna and other key important facts...

Thank you!!!!

Answer 1

Really long story short... The Roman emperor Constantine, in the 4th C, converted to Christianity after a dream. He moved the capital city of the Roman empire to Constantinople (Istanbul).
Justinian was a later (6th C) emperor of the empire. He had the original Hagia Sofia built, wrote laws, and was married to Theodora. A famous set of mosaics in San Vitale, Ravenna, shows Justinian and Theodora donating to the church. The mosaic is located in the apse section and would have been seen as a way to connect them with God eternally as they are eternally donating in the images. I don't believe either Justinian or Theodora ever saw the mosaics much to the displeasure of the patron.
Later on, the empire split into East and West-- the east was the Byzantine Empire with the capital city of Constantinople, the West with the capital city of Rome. The split, I believe, had something to do with the power of the Papacy in Rome.
Here's some more info: http://www.roman-emperors.org/justinia.htm

Answer 2

Justinian sought a program of attempting to reconquer the former Western Roman Empire in the 6th Century. Under his general Belisarius, he was able recaputure parts of Spain (from the Visigoths), North Africa (from the Vandals) and Italy and Sicily (from the Ostrogoths). Ravenna was used as the administrative center of the reconquered Western Roman Empire, due to it proximity to the Adriatic Sea and as it was the former administrative center at the end of the WRE (476 AD). Rome apparently was rather run down in those days.

Justinian did a good job of bankrupting the Eastern Roman Empire, killing Belisarius and weakening the Byzantine state.

Answer 3

Byzantine Empire (native Greek name: Βασιλεία τῶν Ρωμαίων - Basileia tōn Romaiōn) is the term conventionally used since the 19th century to describe the Greek-speaking Roman Empire of the Middle Ages, centered at its capital in Constantinople. In certain specific contexts, usually referring to the time before the fall of the Western Roman Empire, it is also often referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire. To its inhabitants the Empire was simply the Roman Empire and its emperors continued the unbroken succession of Roman emperors. During much of its history it was known to many of its Western contemporaries as The Empire of the Greeks due to the increasing dominance of its Greek population and distinct culture. Today most scholars acknowledge that the Byzantine Empire was the direct continuation of the Hellenistic World.

There is no consensus on the starting date of the Byzantine period. Some place it during the reign of Diocletian (284–305) due to the administrative reforms he introduced, dividing the empire into a pars Orientis and a pars Occidentis. Some consider Constantine I its founder. Others place it during the reign of Theodosius I (379–395) and Christendom's victory over pagan Roman religion, or, following his death in 395, with the permanent division of the empire into western and eastern halves. Others place it yet further in 476, when the last western emperor, Romulus Augustus, was forced to abdicate, thus leaving sole imperial authority to the emperor in the Greek East. Others again point to the reorganisation of the empire in the time of Heraclius (ca. 620) when Greek was made the official language and the Empire's conflicts turned largely to the east.In any case, the changeover was gradual and by 330, when Constantine inaugurated his new capital, the process of further Hellenization and increasing Christianization was already under way

Answer 4

A summery:
Justinian wrote the law code that much of later European laws were made. it summarized and codified Roman law.
Ravenna was the city that the Western Roman empire moved its capitol to after Rome became indefensible in the 400s CE. It was closer to Constantinople, the capitol of the eastern or Byzantine empire; better for contact and supply.

The term Byzantine was another name for the Eastern Empire. It was taken from the city of Byzantium. Constantine named it after himself--Constantinople. Constantine was the one who broke up the Roman empire into Eastern and Western.

Answer 5

Byzantine Empire is the term conventionally used since the 19th century to describe the Greek-speaking Roman Empire of the Middle Ages, centered at its capital in Constantinople. In certain specific contexts, usually referring to the time before the fall of the Western Roman Empire, it is also often referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire. To its inhabitants the Empire was simply the Roman Empire and its emperors continued the unbroken succession of Roman emperors. During much of its history it was known to many of its Western contemporaries as The Empire of the Greeks due to the increasing dominance of its Greek population and distinct culture. Today most scholars acknowledge that the Byzantine Empire was the direct continuation of the Hellenistic World.

Answer 6

4. wars with carthage. made rome the prominent power in the mediterranean region. 3. Julius Caesar. end of the republic and start of the empire. also expanded the empire into gaul. 2. split into eastern and western empire. allowed Byzantine culture to develop into a whole new direction, apart from Rome. 1. Adoption of Christianity under Constantine I. allowed christianity to become the prominent religion in the mediterranean reagion and later europe.

Answer 7

Constantinople was the capital of the eastern empire, and Justinian was the first christian emperor, I believe... there is a lot of information regarding what you asked...

Answer 8

to much to do about too little,all humanity fall by the way side and history marks their greatness and half a million other stories are silenced by stupidity of historians

Answer 9

turks conquered byzantine

Answer 10

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