HIST110 Lecture 10: The Byzantine Empire
5 Feb 2015
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Lecture 10: the byzantine empire founded in 650 b. c. e. (constantine"s expanded city with a bigger hippodrome) Stadium that enclosed a race track/circus, had 7 hills just like rome. Alaric & visigoths captured rome: constantinople most important imperial city. Germanic tribes: goths, vandals and huns split into visigoths [west goths] & ostrogoths [east goths] 493-526, theodoric, ostrogoth king, unsuccessful campaigns against constantinople. Odoacer, ostrogoth king, deposed romulus augustulus in rome (476 c. e. ) 532 nika riot (greens" vs blues) (city divided between groups of supporters, groups became political, supported by aristocrats, became powerful)(gangs) (arson/riot) General belisarius massacred 30,000 rebels in hippodrome. Enabled justinian to regain western provinces: belisarius helped dislodged ostrogoths from italy, vandals from north africa, & Slavs and avars invade from north of byzantium (problems)(low resources to maintain big. Corpus juris civilis (body of civil laws)(helped stabilize rules) A code (streamlines hadrian"s laws, law itself)
