ANTHRO 41A Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Zoroastrianism, Middle Ages

• School: UC-Irvine
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTHRO 41A
• Professor: Thomas Douglas

Document Summary

During reign of emperor constantine a 2nd capital of the roman empire was built (constantinople) Emperor constantine legalized christianity in the roman empire with the edict of. In 476 ad, city of rome fell to german invaders (barbarians: fall of rome . Western half of roman empire slips into economic and social decline but the eastern half continues to thrive. Eastern half would later be referred to by outsiders as the byzantine empire (christian empire: big enemy of byzantine/east roman empire was sassanid persian empire. Religion of sassanid persians was a monotheistic religion: zoroastrianism (an old monotheistic religion that emperor xerxes had practiced years before. Very important to greeks, romans, persians, chinese, hindus, and many other cultures. During 4th century ad, there was very influential christian leader (augustine of. Therefore science & philosophy were pointless since they relied on the use of the mind that was already corrupt.