UGC 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Indo-European Languages, Ancient Greek Medicine, Scriptorium
15 Jan 2016
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Each part was ruled by an augustus and a caesar. Each augustus retires and hands over power to his caesar (305 a. d. ) Battle of mivilian bridge (312ad: turning point in christian history when constantine adopts. Moves the capitol of the roman empire east to constantinople (byzantium: 4th century constantinople. Dates back to the 7th c b. c. Causes a huge split in the roman empire: two capitols, rome and byzantium, two languages, roman and greek. Germanic tribes deepen the separation between east and west. West breaks up into small kingdoms (no allegiance to rome) East remains a series of provinces (loyal to constantinople: byzantium. History of byzantium divided into two halves. Early (300-600 a. d. ) still concerned with the west. Constantinople surrounded by water and harbor trading = Justinian i (527-565 a. d. : wanted to take back italy and north africa from visigoths and. Pros: roman empire reestablished, codex justinianus (law book)
