Constantinople

Sara Wittbold Araoz APAH P.2 Google Classroom READ & WATCH Response: BYZANTIUM & ISLAM Response 1: Hagia Sophia / Byzantine Empire From its grand beginnings, as the “seat of Christianity” at the start of Constantinople, the Hagia Sophia has seen many faiths, as well as tragedies. After the Hagia Sophia’s first mysterious destruction, it was rebuilt by Constantine’s son, Constantinius II in 360 CE to serve as magnificent cathedral for the city. Again in 532 CE the Haiga Sophia was destroyed,…

Byzantine Empire The Byzantine Empire referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire, was the continuation of the Roman Empire in the East during the late antiquity and the middle ages. It survived the fragmentation and fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD and continued to exist for an additional thousand years until it fell to the Ottoman Turks in 1953. In most of its existence the empire was powerful in economic, cultural and military force in Europe. Both Byzantine Empire and…

what made Christianity a major presence in the empire. Churches like the Hagia Sophia brought attraction to the people and awareness to the growing faith. Constantine’s establishment of Constantinople in the middle of the Roman Empire had also made an important input to the spread of Christianity. Constantinople was…

HIST 203 Final Paper The Ottoman Empire: The Classical Age 1300-1600 by Halil Inalcik The Palace: A Microcosm of the Empire The history of the palace in terms of early Ottoman history is crucial to our understanding of power and social structures within the empire. In Inalcik’s book on the Classical Age, he devotes many pages to discussing the importance of the palace and its position at the centre of ottoman imperial power. Inalcik’s argument seems to predominantly be that the origin for all…

Turks moved from Central Asia to Middle West in the eleventh CE century. One of the tribes called the Seljuk Turks, occupied Persia and then moved west slowly. Battle of Manzikert in 1071 CE is where the Seljuk Turks met Byzantine emperor and his army. The Byzantine emperor was killed, and army was destroyed. After taken over Byzantine the Seljuk Turks moved into Anatolia. Moving south again the were able to occupy the Holy Land. Religion played a role in the origins of the Crusades or…

order to continue the aspect of architecture from the Greco-Roman civilization. Hippodrome was a term in Greek culture for the stadium used for horse and chariot racing. The largest Hippodrome of the ancient civilizations was the hippodrome of Constantinople. This stadium was simply called “The Hippodrome” and was built from 203 to…

In Byzantium Empire there was a lot of political changes sometimes for the better or sometimes of the worst. Mostly they effected medieval Europe and change how mid evil Europe functioned. Through different political ideologies and changing political strategies the empire became a powerful country on the hands of the western roman world in its collapse and instability. While the Byzantium Empire went through a period of stability and great power. One example of political change in the…

relating women and their children: changing the lives of many. She was also involved in changing Justinian’s political decisions. An Example of this is illustrated in the Nika revolt of January 532 Ca. United in opposition, political factions of Constantinople plan to rival the emperor. As Justinian flees Theodora stands ground and advises him to stay and save the empire. These events would inspire archbishop Maxinian to commission the mosaic despite her never visiting…

The destruction of Constantinople finally happened in 1453 (p. 293). The Ottoman Empire rained cannonballs on the city and brought its walls down. On the last Monday of May in the same year, people began to gather the Hagia Sophia. A sermon was given in both Latin and Greek; the divisions that had separated the two churches of the East and West forgotten. But it was to no avail. In the end, Ottoman flags were hoisted up to celebrate their victory. At last the wheel comes full circle, from the…

THE MIDDLE AGES Mid term The anarchic time of the Roman Empire were forced to deal with tremendous challenges that caused the empire to spilt into three East, West and South. The biggest and most devastating challenge was the fall of Rome, which divides the empire in the first place. The east was mostly Germanic catholic tribes who banded together to control what was left of Rome and soon become the Carolingian empire, the South were control by the Muslims, while the East was the Greek orthodox…