2020 Lecture

1. Byzantine Empire
(Yay! Your first unit! Get psyched!)
Color codes:
RED & YELLOW = VOCABULARY WORD
BLUE = MAJOR CHARACTER
GREEN = KEY EVENT

2. Day 1 - Bell Work #1…
(Answer in your interactive notebook)
 Go your interactive notebook.
Complete the survey entitled “Day
1 - Bell Work #1”. 10 minutes.
 Then let’s begin…

3. Overview
1. Eastern part of the Roman Empire that
thrived after the Western part fell to
"barbarians".
2. Most citizens spoke Greek, not Latin.
3. Constantinople- capital
4. Promoted Greco-Roman culture and classical
learning and helped to preserve ancient Greek
and Roman texts.

5. End of Lecture and Notes – Day 1
 Save YOUR NOTES!
 Let’s do our map activity!
 Note: for those of you who are absent and
reading this from home, you can download
the map in your interactive notebook!

6. END OF DAY 1

7. Begin Lecture Day 2

8. Justinian
 Leader in 527
 Was able to conquer all of
Italy, parts of North Africa and
parts of Spain.

11. Justinian’s Code
 Uniform set of laws.
 Contained ~ 5000 Roman laws
considered useful including
instruction on how to teach the law
and the opinions of Rome’s greatest
legal thinkers.

12. Theodora
 Wife of Justinian; partner not
just Queen.
 Leader of women's rights.
 Helped pass laws granting
women better benefits in divorce
cases.

14. Nika Rebellion
 Riot that occurred in 532 because
some people were upset in the way
the government violently put down a
previous riot.
 Demanded the overthrow of
Justinian.

15.  Justinian had his best general,
Belisarius, slaughter ~ 30,000
people in the Hippodrome (large
horseracing arena)
 Justinian tried to run away, but
Theodora talked him into staying

16. Hagia Sophia
 "Holy Wisdom"
 Built as a Christian church in
537, now an Islamic mosque.

17. Interactive Video Time…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4-
F3zk7pFc&t=376s
Go to your Interactive Notebook and open
“Day 2 – Video Quiz #1.” Answer the
questions as we go through it together, whole
class. (8:51)

21. I’m standing where Empress Theodora stood! All of the
Empresses would have stood there. There’s a dip in the
concrete where they stood.

22. 3:25 video about Justinian and
Theodora

23. Day 2 Notes End

24. Day 3 Notes Begin

25. Divided Church
1. In 730 Emperor Leo III banned the
use of icons- religious images used to
help people pray; people rioted and
clergy rebelled;
2. Started a controversy over the role
of the Emperor's authority over Church
matters.

26. 3. Pope Gregory II excommunicated
Emperor Leo III- made it so he was no
longer a part of the Catholic Church,
and could not do the sacraments
4. Eventually split into the Roman
Catholic and Orthodox; official
religion of the Byzantine Empire

29. Fall of the Empire
1. Justinian's Plague- disease like the Bubonic
Plague; about 10,000 people died per day in
542
2. Attacks from east and west- Lombards
conquered the west, Sassanid Persians in the
east, Arab armies and Russians attacked
Constantinople – officially fell to the Ottoman
Empire in 1453.

30. Go to your Interactive Notebook.
Open “Day 3-Bell Work #2”. Respond
in FULL sentences and completely.
1. How could Justinian’s Plague and
the division over icons lead to the
downfall of the Byzantine Empire?
2. Write a 20-word GIST/summary
using the words that YOU chose.
Not 19, not 21, but 20 words
exactly.

31. END DAY 3 LECTURE
NOTES