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”
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