THE BYZANTINES AND RUSSIANS

CONSTANTINOPLE 550

• Constantine moved the capital to Constantinople.
• Was surrounded by sea had good trade ports.
• Had good defence through sea and wall
• Had important buildings in the city like the Hagia Sophia.
• Was a model city for citys to come.

JUSTINIAN 527

• Justinan comes to throne in 527 of the Byzantium empire.
• he led many architectural discoveries like the Hagia Sophia .
• He expanded the empire to the east.
• He commanded there troops through many battles winning almost all of them .
• He made many hard decions regarding the empire.

EMPRESS THEODORA 500-548

• Most powerful women in Byzantine history.
• Married Justinian because of her looks.
• She meet with forgein envoys.
• Wrote to forgein leaders,passed laws, and built churchs.
• In times of crisis she encouraged Justinian to keep fighting.

JUSTINAIN CODE 533

• Is the major set of laws the Bysantines followed.
• Contains nearly 5,000 roman laws.
• The Digest summarized the opinions if romes legal thinkers.
• The Insitution was a text book that told law students how to use law
• The Novellae Legislation was passed after 534

YAROSLAV THE WISE 1019

• He had his sisters and daughters marry kings and princes, to forge important trading alliances .
• He created a legal code tailored to Kievs commercial culture.
• He built the first library in Kiev.
• Kiev could even boast 400 churches because of Yaroslav the wise.
• Yaroslav expanded the kingdom a little.

EMPIRES ENEMYS 565-1453

• They were attacked from the east and west by invadors.
• Many groups attacked the empire like the Russians,Arabs,and Muslims.
• The Crusaders attacked the empire in 1204.
• The Byzantines used many tactics for their defence like bribes and diplomacy.
• The empire finnaly feel to the Ottoman Turks in 1453.

MONGOL INVASIONS MIDDLE OF 1200S

• The Mongols taking everyone's things and being brutal towards everyone.
• Mongols ruling Russia for more than 200 years.
• Mongols expanded the nation.
• Mongols didn't think they needed Russian help.
• Mongols were the "super nation" at the time.

ALEXANDER NEVSKY1220-1263

• Alexander stopped the swedes from stoping the expansion.
• He defeated Germanic warriors by using the frozen ice as an tactic.
• Helped the expansion continue.
• He stopped invaders from forcing them to change there religion by winning the fight against Germanic peoples.
• He made things easier for the country by winning wars and showing tactics to other commanders.

IVAN THE THIRD (CESAR) 1320S

• He expanded the empire.
• He increased his army numbers.
• Convinced other tribes to move to Moscow.
• Improved the strength of the empire .
• He married the niece of the last Byzantine empire.

EMPIRE EMERGES 1462-1505

• Ivan made a break with the mongols.
• The mongols leave modern day Russia.
• The other empires or areas decide to create one nation.
• The empire starts to build modern day Russia.
• This empire lasted from the 11th century to the 20th.

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