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The Middle Ages (the Byzantine Empire (THE FALL OF CONSTANTINOPLE…
The Middle Ages
the Byzantine Empire
WESTERN ROMAN EMPIRE
Fell in 476
because
Germanic tribes invasions
capital in Rome
EASTERN ROMAN EMPIRE
capital in Constantinople
Justinian
emperor
Theodora
wife
reconquered territories
Italy
North Africa
Adriatic sea
the south of the Iberian Peninsula
THE FALL OF CONSTANTINOPLE
considered the end of the Middle Ages
Turkish taking the control of the city
the end of Christianity
The city toook the name of Instanbul
It was controlled by the Othoman Empire
BYZANTINE CULTURE
Classical Antiquity
Code of Justinian
Greek was the language spoken
Mosaics
decorative elements
CHRISTIANITY IN BYZANTIUM
greek and latin tradictions
+christianism
emperor
politics+religion
two conflicts
The Iconoclastic controversy
The East-West Schism
Frankish kingdom
GERMANIC INVASIONS
new kingdoms were stabilished
Ostrogoths
in Italy
Franks
Gaul
thing in common
elective monarchy
rural way of life
economy based on agriculture
THE FRANKISH KINGDOM
Franks settlled in Gaul
the Frankish ruler was clovis
he converted to Catholism
he unifyed the Gallo Romans and Franks
he defeated the visigoths
Charles Martel
defeated the Muslims at the Battle of Poitiers
retreat to the Iberian Peninsula
Pippin the Short
last frankish king
start of the Carolingian dynasty
He helped Pope Stephen II
he gave the Church territories
THE CAROLINGIAN EMPIRE
After Pippin´s death
Charlesmagne became king
Military campaings to expand the territories
North-east of the Iberian Peninsula
Christmas day,800
proclaimed Holy Roman Emperor
by Pope Leo III
in St. Peter´s Church in Rome
CULTURE IN THE CAROLINGIAN EMPIRE
Charlesmagne founded
Palatine Academy in Aachen
Arts and science were promoted
Students were taught
grammar
rhetoric
arithmetic
geometry
astronomy
music
periods of the middle ages
the high middle ages
the late middle ages
the early middle ages
5th to 15th centuries