HIST 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Dyophysite, Monophysitism, Abbasid Caliphate
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Byzantine empire/eastern rome: 330-1453 bce, 330: when they moved administrative functions from rome to constantinople, emperors: 1. Constantine i (1st emperor of the east) moved the administrative functions because of the invasions (barbarian, gothic, etc. ) Later o they are called monotheists and they thought that he was just divine 2. Diophysite: argued that he is two natured thought. Christ was both human and divine but both merge together as one. Council of nicea decided diphysite was right: 380: christianity becomes the only of cial religion of the empire (theodosios, emperor justinian (6th century): he wanted to reunite rome. Before his time, in the 5th century, the roman empire got divided into 2 (476), the west which had a new emperor almost every year which created tumult while the east was not like that and was very stable. Justinian conquers all the regions in the west for a short time and it was lost in the 7th century.
