HIS102Y1 Lecture 9: Lecture 9 - The Fall of Rome and the Rise of Byzantium
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The fall of rome and the rise of byzantium (cid:862)introduction (396 ce - c. 650 ce - 1453 ce)(cid:863) Specific tools that rome used to shape the relationship it has with its subjects: roads between itself and its territories, used the local elites, gladiators (theatre empire) Imperial cult (reinforce the ideology of the empire) Christian (go to heaven: orthodox: catholic, arian: jesus was a subordinate of god, nestorian: christ had both a divine nature and human nature, monophysite: purely divine, no duality. I(cid:374)stead of rapture, (cid:449)as a for(cid:373) of tra(cid:374)sfor(cid:373)atio(cid:374) of the (cid:272)ulture (cid:271)oth ger(cid:373)a(cid:374)i(cid:272) a(cid:374)d. Fostering children (train sons by sending them off to other families so they can learn a certain work for a few years) Lasted 1000 years longer than the western post-roman empire: major factor in the eastward spread of christianity. In the west, there was a new political map.
