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New Political Scenery

New Political Scenery. Unit 2: The Post-Classical Age, 600-1450 Part I – End of the Old, Beginning of the New. A Shift in Power. New nations rose after the fall of old empires Byzantine in Eastern Europe Sassinaid in Persia Jin in China. The Byzantine Commonwealth . Theme System.

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New Political Scenery

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  1. New Political Scenery Unit 2: The Post-Classical Age, 600-1450 Part I – End of the Old, Beginning of the New

  2. A Shift in Power • New nations rose after the fall of old empires • Byzantine in Eastern Europe • Sassinaid in Persia • Jin in China

  3. The Byzantine Commonwealth

  4. Theme System • Each province (theme) was under the control of a general • responsible for both military defense & civil administration. • Generals recruited armies from free peasants • land in exchange for military service • Based on land and service both very Middle Age concepts almost like feudalism and yet maintained some concepts of paterfamilias

  5. Superpower of the Dark Ages • Protected location on Bosporus Straits • Greek fire & heavy cavalry (the cataphracts) • the use of subsidies to play its enemies against one another • Caesaropapism- domination of imperial rule over Christianity in the Byzantine empire • Emperors played an active and prominent role in ecclesiastical affairs. • The role of the emperor evolved as secular begins to superceed sacred

  6. Culture • Constantinople controlled the economy and grew to an enormous size but other cities were relatively small • Mostly because the major exports were of an industrial nature such as luxury products, silk, cloth and carpets • Culture • Mostly Greek • Domed buildings adapted from the Roman style of architecture • Richly colored mosaics • Painted Icons

  7. Justinian & Theodora • recovered provinces that had been previously overrun by invaders. • The Byzantine empire reached its greatest size under Justinian. • launched a program to beautify Constantinople. • church of Hagia Sophia improved on earlier Roman buildings. • reformed the law. • Justinian’s Code was a model for medieval monarchs, the Roman Catholic Church, and later legal thinkers. • used the law to unite the empire under his control • Justinian ruled as an autocrat, or sole ruler with complete authority. He also had power over the Church. (caesarpapism)

  8. Emperor Justinian [r. 527-564]

  9. Empress Theodora

  10. Justinian’s Empire at its Peak

  11. Christianity in East and West 1054 – Differences between east and west provoked a schism, or permanent split, between the Eastern (Greek) Orthodox and the Roman Catholic Church

  12. Sassanids of Persia

  13. Jin in China

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