After this lecture you should be able to:

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• After this lecture you should be able to
• Compare the effect of Byzantium on Eastern
  Europe with the effect of Islamic Core on Africa
  and Southern Asia.

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• React discuss the following
• The Byzantine Empire provides an opportunity
  to compare the religious, commercial, and
  political patterns of post-classical
  civilizations.

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• In the contemporary world any overly
  complicated system or bureaucracy is critically
  referred to as Byzantine.
• What does this suggest about the nature, role,
  and function of the Byzantine Empire?
• How does it connect to the five themes of AP
  World?

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• Codification of Laws Impact
• A. Corpus Juris Civilis
• 1. Organized empire
• 2. Reduced confusion
• 3. Spread common legal principles and
  practices

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• II. Spread of Civilization in Eastern Europe
• A. Contacts Impact
• 1. Contact with Russia through trade
  routes missionaries
• 2. Missionaries- Cyril Methodious
• a. Slavic alphabet Cyrillic
• b. Religious text move from Latin to
  local languages
• c. Allowed influence to spread to
  Slavic, Baltic, Russia

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• B. Bureaucrats
• 1. Maintained order
• 2. Trained in Greek philosophy and
• science
• 3. Economically- controlled food prices/
  regulated trade

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• III. Emergence of Kievan Rus
• A. Byzantine influence formative period
• B. Early Culture
• 1. Animistic
• 2. Strong family tribes / villages
• 3. Folk tradition oral legends

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• C. Scandinavians- Est. Trade at Kiev
• 1. Rurik emerged 1st monarch
• 2. Vladimir I coverts to Christianity
  on behalf of people
• a. Orthodox instead of Roman
  Catholicism
• b. Rejected influence of Pope
• c. Became largest decentralized state
  in Europe
• d. Couldnt replicate Byzantine
• bureaucracy or educational system

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• IV. Decline Outside Invasion
• A. Kiev
• 1. Rival princes, internal conflict,
  regional governments
• 2. Declining impact of Byzantine relied on
  prosperity of trade manufacturing
• 3. 1237-1241 Mongol Invasion

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• B. Byzantine
• 1. Long threatened by Ottoman Turks
• 2. 1453 Ottoman Turks conquer
  Constantinople
• 3. Power Vacuum
• a. Border territories Poland under
  Western control
• b. Balkans fall to Islamic Turk control
• c. Crusades 1095-1291

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• V. Impact/ Similarities Byzantine Islamic Core
• a. Influence through trade
• b. Influence through missionaries
• c. Influence through codification
  bureaucratic systems
• d. Both passed influences that supported
  centralized governments supported by religions
  and core cultures

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• e. Contrast- Islam had a larger impact
  endures in all regions today