Byzantine Empire 500-1453
- Byzantine Survival and Thriving
- Constantinople
- Capital built on a strategic peninsula
- Easily defended
- Capital built on a strategic peninsula
- Justinian I and Theodora
- re-conquered much of Western Rome
- Contributed to infrastructure
- Walled city
- Hagia Sophia
- Corpus juris civilis
- Legal code developed by Justinian
- The basis for most European laws today
- Intellectual Life
- Strong emphasis on education
- Mostly spoke Greek with some Latin
- Preference for studying history
- Adopted Greek study of Medicine, astronomy, and mathematics
- Passed on to the Arabs who developed further
- Major military accomplishments
- Greek fire, artillery, and siege weapons
- Publicly funded hospitals
- Center for trade
- Sat in between Europe, Asia, and the Middle East
- Constantinople