Byzantine

Byzantine

Foundation of Byzantium



Foundation of Byzantine The Byzantine was somewhat founded in the 4th century when the Roman set up the their capitial in Constantiopole. They warded off invaders such as the Huns, as well as they had solid taxes. Greek was the common language and Latin was the court language and Greek was found to be less civilized and even barbaric.

The achievement of Justinian -tried to reconquer Eastern civilization -restore empire like Rome - his wife was a cause of big changes - huge new churches such as **Haga Sophia** -unified law -united and organized new empire -new line of defense, pushed back the Persian forces

media type="custom" key="7455739" Justinian's code was a rule about property and the owner of the property. Even though Justinian's code was fair, it was debatable. Many areas of this code was not completely clear and could be easily manipulated such as the laws of notions and the civil laws. The natural law is pretty clear since if its your its yours and if someone gives it to you, it is also yours. However with the laws of notion and civil laws, they are pretty tricky to begin with such as the wild beast rule, but in additions they have exceptions which make it even more tricky. I don't think the code helped very much and would have caused more problems than it prevented.

Notes on documents, Document 1: based on Roman and still considared themselves Roman natural law, common law, civil law, natural law & civil law. Natural law : everyone follows Civil law: followed by society Written law: wrote & followed, all people should know Spoken law: known slaves and free people had no difference can't not marry birth related if you break and marry birth related you were not really married cannot marry slaves, looked down upon if you aren't married and have a child, they aren't under the father, orphan, and almost a baby of prositution law is broken up to public and privete law. then sub divide civil, natural, law of nations nature: everyone Civil: all society have (all man kind) law of nation: created by government

Document 3: Obligations & terms of agreement Terms of Agreement: conditional and unconditionally

Summary of Eastern Europe Eastern Europe was a civilization that was very similiar to the Bzyantine Empire with unified laws, burecracry, as well as similiarities in ideas. Many Jews came into Eastern Europe to escape from the Middle Eastern. Eastern Eruope and Western Europe was also split with the idea of religions. Roman catholic and Orthodox had different ideas on the same religion such as about the priest. Eastern Eruope like the Byzantine Empire was based attemptivley based on the Roman Empire