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BYZANTINE EMPIRE THE EASTERN EMPIRE OF ROME BYZANTIUM BECOMES CONSTANTINOPLE CONSTANTINOPLE CONSTANTINOPLE WAS LOCATED ON THE BOSPORUS STRAITS THE BYZANTINES USED “GREEK FIRE” TO FIGHT OFF THEIR ENEMIES COULD CONTROL TRADE FROM MOSCOW TO THE MEDITERRANEAN, AND TO CHINA BYZANTINE EMPIRE IS BUILT AT ITS HEIGHT THE ROMAN EMPIRE REACHED FROM BRITIAN TO EGYPT THE WEST WAS OVERRUN AND DISAPPEARED IN 476 AD IT SURVIVED AS THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE UNTIL1453 AD JUSTINIAN RULED FROM 527 TO 565 HIS WIFE THEODORA, SHE WAS INTELLIGENT AND HELPED IN MANY DECISIONS MADE BY JUSTINIAN JUSTINIANS CODE:LAWS CREATED THAT OFTEN CONTRIDICTED THEMSELVES ALSO CALLED CORPUS OF CIVIL LAW RELIGIOUS DISPUTES MOST ALL OF THE RULERS WERE CHRISTIANS BUT THE WAYS IN WHICH THEY WORSHIPPED WERE DIFFERENT THESE DISPUTES ON HOW TO WORSHIP WEAKEN THE EMPIRE AS PEOPLE BEGAN TO TAKE OPPOSING SIDES RELIGION DIVIDES AN EMPIRE PRAY TO SAINTS PRAY ONLY DIRECTLY TO GOD REPRESENT GOD WITH ICONS NO ICONS OR REPRESENTATIVES OF GOD PRAY TO HOLY PEOPLE RELIGIOUS LEADERS THE PATRIARCH OF THE CHURCH IN CONSTANTINOPLE THE POPE EACH TOOK SIDES AND IN 1054 THEY ATTACKED EACH OTHER ON THE BASIS OF WHO WAS RIGHT? THIS WAS CALLED THE GREAT SCHISM, OR SPLIT IN THE CHURCH PRIDE BEFORE THE FALL THE SPLIT IN THE CHURCH OPENED THEM UP TO INVASION IN 1254 AN ARMY ATTACKED AND THE OTTOMAN TURKS TOOK OVER THE EMPIRE THE OTTOMANS WERE NON-CHRISTIAN ENEMIES OF THE BYZANTINES RISE OF ISLAM IN 610 AD MUHAMMAD WAS CHOSEN BY GOD, OR SO THE STORY TELLS US TO LEAD HIS PEOPLE TO THE ONE TRUE GOD MUHAMMAD LIVED ON WHAT IS CALLED THE ARABIAN PENINSULA MECCA BECAME A TRADE CENTER VERY QUICKLY AND WAS THE CROSSROADS OF THE MUSLIM WORLD MUSLIMS OF THE MIDDLE EAST MUSLIM MEANS “persons who submit to God” THIS FAITH CAME TO BE KNOWN AS ISLAM ISLAM MEANS “SUBMISSION TO GOD” FEW LISTENED AT FIRST, BUT EVENTUALLY HE BECAME A PROPHET AND IN 622 HE TRAVELED TO YATHRIB TO SPREAD HIS MESSAGE THE GOLDEN AGE OF ISLAM BETWEEN 800 AND 1100 IS SEEN AS ONE OF THE MOST BRILLANT TIMES IN THE WORLDS HISTORY LITERATURE, SCIENTIFIC ADVANCES, MEDICAL ADVANCES WERE ALL MADE THE ISLAMIC EMPIRE GREW RICH AND POWERFUL LASTING LEGACY OF THE MUSLIMS CANON OF MEDICINE ARABIAN MATHMATICS THE USE OF WATER AS A POWER SOURCE DOCTORS WELL BEYOND THEIR YEARS IN MEDICAL ADVANCES THE LASTING MUSLIM RELIGION IT IS ONE OF THE MOST FOLLOWED SECTS IN THE WORLD BILLIONS OF MUSLIMS ALL OVER THE WORLD FIVE PILLARS OF ISLAM PRAYER FAITH PILGRIMAGE FAST CHARITY