Middle Ages

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  • 395

    Beginning of Byzantine Empire

    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
  • Period: 395 to 1453

    Byzantine Empire

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWa8vOjmiMs
  • 476

    Beginning of Middle Ages. Fall of Western Roman Empire.

  • Period: 476 to 1050

    Early Middle Ages

  • Period: 476 to 1492

    Middle Ages

  • Period: 527 to 565

    Justinian (Byzantine Empire)

    Peak of the Byzantine Empire, he conquered territories in Western Europe suchas south of Iberian Peninsula, north of Africa and Italian Peninsula
  • 534

    Code of Justinian

    Set of laws that all of the Byzantine Empire could follow. The code has survived to present day.
  • 537

    Hagia Sophia

  • Period: 622 to 1453

    Islamic Empire

    Evolution of the Islam in the Middle Ages.
  • Period: 632 to 661

    First caliphes

  • Period: 661 to 750

    Umayyad caliphate

    Expansion to Mediterranean areas
  • Period: 700 to 900

    Iconoclastic controversy

    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.
  • Period: 715 to 843

    Carolingian Empire

  • 732

    Poitiers battle

    End of Islamic conquers in Europe
  • Period: 750 to 945

    Abassid caliphate

  • 800

    Charlemagne is crowned Holy Roman emperor

  • Period: 1000 to 1100

    Resurgence of urban life

  • Period: 1050 to 1250

    High Middle Ages

  • 1054

    East-West Schism

    Separation within the Church.
    New Eastern Church, ORTHODOX
  • Period: 1250 to 1492

    Late Middle Ages

  • 1453

    Fall of Constantinople

    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
  • 1492

    Discover of America