The Roman Empire

Divided in 294

Constantine’s City--

Constantinopolis

Constantinople: A Greek

City

(Istanbul Today)

Sunset on the

“Golden Horn”

“Window to the West”

@Constantine

• History Teacher’s Rendition

Emperor Justinian [r. 527-565]

Justinian the Great

Empress Theodora

Justinian’s Empire at its Peak

Church of Hagia Sophia

[Holy Wisdom]

Interior of the Church of Hagia

Sophia

Justinian’s Code

Corpus Juris Civilis: 1. Digest

2. Code

3. Institutes

4. Novels

• Clarified Roman Law

• Greatest contribution

Istanbul not Constantinople

• Byzantium 600 BCE

• Constantinople 324 CE

• Istanbul 1453 CE

Byzantine & Sassanid

Empires, 6c

Great Schism

• 1054

• Split between the

Western Roman

Church (Roman

Catholics) and the

Eastern Orthodox

Church