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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ei9xKYXe464
The Roman emperor Constantine founded the city of Constantinople in 324 AD. This city had a great cultural and political influence for many centuries.
In 395 AD, the Roman emperor Theodosius divided the Roman Empire between his two sons:
The Eastern Empire: Arcadio in the east for many centuries
The Western empire: Honorio by the Germanic tribes, who formed independent kingdoms -
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Peak of the Byzantine Empire, he conquered territories in Western Europe suchas south of Iberian Peninsula, north of Africa and Italian Peninsula
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Set of laws that all of the Byzantine Empire could follow. The code has survived to present day.
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Evolution of the Islam in the Middle Ages.
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Expansion to Mediterranean areas
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A dispute over the use of religious images (icons) in the Byzantine Empire in the 8th and 9th centuries. The Iconoclasts (those who rejected images) objected to icon veneration for several reasons, including the Old Testament prohibition against images in the Ten Commandments and the possibility of idolatry. The defenders of the use of icons insisted on the symbolic nature of images and on the dignity of created matter.
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End of Islamic conquers in Europe
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Separation within the Church.
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Consequences:
Shock in western, they think in the end of Christianity
Ottomans blocked trade routes with Asia, consequence: Portuguese and Spaniards travel through Atlantic ocean
Greek thinkers flight to Italy ( influence in the Renaissance)
Constantinople: Istanbul
Istanbul capital of Turkish Empire until World War I -