Brizantine

From the handout, after the fall of the Western Roman Empire, its legacy survived in the east in the form of the Byzantine Empire. It owes its existence by following Roman government, Christian religion and Greco-Roman culture as its pillar. It is located in what we now called as the country of Turkey. Unlike its brother in the west, the Byzantine Empire was not in the immediate danger of being invaded by barbarian hordes like the different Germanic tribes.

 The Byzantine Empire was strategically located on a spot where it can be defended on all sides. It walls endured for centuries against attacks from different forces that were not barbarian like the Arabs in particular. The most famous emperor was Justinian who was a very controversial figure. He ruled well with the aid of his wife but he also made some questionable deeds spending lavishly while the supplies of the empire were becoming limited. The greatest legacy left by the Byzantine Empire was it paved the way for the conversion of Russia into Christianity. When the capital Constantinople was destroyed, some Russian princes wanted to convert Moscow into the “Third Rome” in honor of Constantinople being “The Second Rome”. The empire met its end when it was bombarded by the Seljuk Turks and was superseded by the Ottoman Empire.

The Fall Of The Western Rome Empire

           It all started with the split of the Roman empire.The Roman empire split after the death of the emperor and his two sons wanted to take over the Roman empire but of coarse there can only be one emperor so they split the Roman empire rather than killing each other. When they split the western side was more poor and less powerful than the east and they mostly relied on taxes and since they were poor they couldn't afford the taxes so they fled Rome and the only ones who stayed where the rich people.



           When the western Rome empire started to weaken they were invaded by Germanic tribes and that was the end of the western empire.There were also a lot of other reasons for The decline and fall of Rome such as sexual orgies, climatic changes, bad ecological habits, and Christianity.Although there are a lot of reasons for the decline and fall of Rome I think the most reasonable and explainable is the split of the Roman empire.


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Rome Turns Christian

     According to the handout, when the early Christians came to Rome, Rome combined their pagan religion and Christianity to make the roman Catholic.They combined there religion because of the attractive character Jesus himself and the fact that they welcome women and slaves,also because of Christianity's appealing ethical system of love, forgiveness, and service to others even the emperor Constantine himself converted into a christian.There was also number of conversions to christianity during that time.



      In the Fourth-century it was the time when Arianism was the most powerful Christian heresy.Arianism is very similar to Christianity, it still teaches Christ's teaching but denies about his "Full divinity"(meaning Jesus and god are not one). By the end of the fourth century christianity won the empire but the old heresies still lived on and more new one have arisen.Arianism still lingered because there were people who were converted by Arian missionaries sometime in the middle of the fourth century.


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