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Outline Note Taking
Basic format
Below is the basic layout you can use to take outline notes. Please note that you can
have as many smaller ideas as necessary underneath a main idea. The same goes for
the number of details you might include underneath a smaller idea.
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Example using 1.1 of World Studies: Medieval Times to Today
Notice in my example that I highlighted certain pieces in colors. The red and blue titles
are the red and blue titles from the book that I used to guide my note-taking. Using
those titles as a guide, I then wrote down information I thought was important from
those sections.
Section 1.1: The Byzantine Empire
• Constantinople at a Crossroads
• Constantinople = capital of the Byzantine Empire (pg. 10)
• Christian Byzantines and Muslim Arabs fought over the Middle East after the
Roman Empire failed
• Constantine and his Capital
• Constantine = Emperor of Roman Empire starting in 306 AD
• Constantine became Christian and stopped persecution of Christians
• Constantine renamed Byzantium to Constantinople and made it the capital of
his empire
• Later the empire split into Eastern and Western halves. The Eastern half was
stronger because of its military and trade.
Trade
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• Constantinople was built near a lot of roads and water passages
• Bosporus strait = a narrow body of water that connected the Black Sea and
Mediterranean Sea; next to Constantinople; lots of trade went through
• Constantinople got trades from Russia, Egypt, and Asia
• Taxed traded items and made money from it
Fall
of the Western Empire
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• Germans invaded and took over by 476 AD
The
Age
of Justinian
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• The Emperor Justinian
• Rule started in 527
• Born to a poor family
• Listened to ideas from any person (even peasants)
• Justinian’s Code
• J’s Code was an organized collection and explanation of Roma laws for use by
the Byzantine Empire; was the basis for legal systems of modern countries
• Before J’s Code, laws were disorganized and didn’t make any sense
• Byzantine Culture
• Byzantines blended Greek, Roman, and Christian cultures
• The Empire’s Later Years
• Empire declined after Justinian died in 565 and new emperors had to fight wars
against Persians, Turks, Arabs, and Germanic groups
• A Religious Dispute
• Christianity was practiced differently in Byzantine and the Byzantine Christians
rejected the authority of the pope, who lead the Roman church
• Byzantine church used greek language while the Roman church used Latin
language
• Byzantine emperor banned the use of icons of saints, which went against the
pope. The pope banished the emperor from the church and caused a split
between the two groups of Christians (Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox)
• Schism = split
• A Second Golden Age
• The empire was doing well again from 900 to mid-1000s
• Basil II was the best emperor since Justinian
Fall
of Constantinople
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• Byzantine Empire got into wars with Turks, Europeans, and Christian
Crusaders
• Constantinople fell to the Turks, who renamed it Istanbul and it became the
capital of the Ottoman Empire