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Byzantium was named Constantinople after its re-foundation under Roman emperor Constantine I, who brought the capital of the Roman Empire from Rome to Byzantium.
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The Nika riots took place against Emperor Justinian I and took place over the course of a week in Constantinople. It was caused by conflict over chariot racing.
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Against the Vandals, Ostrogoths, Deposition of Pope Silverius, and battle of melantias. His career was a success other than having not much support from Justinian.
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Also called Church of the Holy Wisdom or Church of the Divine Wisdom, cathedral built at Constantinople. It is the most important Byzantine structure and one of the world’s great monuments.
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Started by Islamic Prophet Muhammad in the 7th century. He made up a new unified polity in the Arabian Peninsula. Conquests of Syria and Egypt and conquest of Mesopotamia and Persia
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Started with the incorporation of eastern Bulgaria after the Russo–Byzantine War. There were many conflicts between the Bulgarian Empire and the Byzantine Empire which led to the conquest of Bulgaria by the Byzantines.
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Was the break of communion between what are now the Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches.
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Pope Urban ll orders first crusade by calling all Christians in Europe to war against Muslims in order to reclaim the Holy Land.
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Crusader were armies captured, looted, and destroyed parts of Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire.
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Sultan Mehmed II, ruler of the Ottoman Turks, led the assault. The city was defended by, at most, 10,000 men.
