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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. • Main idea • Smaller idea • Detail • Detail Smaller idea • • Smaller idea • Detail • Main idea • Smaller idea • Smaller idea • Detail • Smaller idea • Detail • Detail 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 • • 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 • • Germans invaded and took over by 476 AD The Age of Justinian • • 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 • • 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