HIST 218- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 88 pages long!)

• School: Queen's University
• Department: History
• Course: HIST 218
• Professor: Richard Greenfield

Document Summary

Constantine recently took control of the western half of the roman empire. Working to convert christianity to the preferred religion to the roman world. Made constantinople the capital of the eastern world 13 years from now. Will continue for another 150 years almost the entire 1000 year span constantinople was the capital, modern day istanbul. Based around the aegean sea- empire of mostly coast lines, land was never far away but an empire based on the sea. (cid:373)ost b(cid:455)za(cid:374)ti(cid:374)es do(cid:374)(cid:859)t li(cid:448)e i(cid:374) co(cid:374)sta(cid:374)ti(cid:374)ople (cid:271)ut i(cid:374) (cid:373)ore rural areas alo(cid:374)g the (cid:272)ost a(cid:374)d in the inland. Mountains spread across the byzantine empire that broke up the people into small communities varied terrain across the empire that created very different styles of life for everyone there were big urban settlements and smaller rural settlements. Jewish, islamic: difference of cultural and social level- people who owned shops, aristocrats and well off politicians, poor farmers or slaves, merchants- multilevel social class.