HIST 150 Lecture 3: Lecture 3 Outline - The Medieval World
27 Sep 2016
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Held prisoner and taught a roman education. Took empire and conquered italy: adapted and kept a lot of roman culture. Given permission to take land from rome. Turns on them: had problems picking leaders. Angles & saxons: cross north sea, move into celtic britain, anglo-saxons . Centered at constantinople (c. 330 - 1453) Justinian (r. 527 - 565) & wife theodora: one of the greatest byzantine leaders, under his watch, byzantine empire becomes dominant, ruled empire that reigned over about 1,500 cities, rebuilds the city of constantinople. Corpus juris civilis (body of civil law) introduced (529 534) As a church (an eastern orthodox christian church to be exact) Muslims turn it into an islamic mosque when they breached the walls of constantinople. It will be used by succeeding generations and would form the basis for european civil law well into the 19th century. Arabs (including poor bedouins) populate arabian peninsula believing in supreme god (allah)
