HISTORY 115 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Primary Chronicle, Khosrow Ii, Justinian Ii
29 Nov 2017
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Called themselves romans while others called them greeks. Taken again in 1453 by the ottoman turks. Constantinople was very hard to take and seige. Smaller than muslim cities, but biggest christian city. Church of hagia sophia - largest christian church until the renaissance. Then we went to greece (byzantium), and the greeks (byzantines) led us to the edifices where they worship their god, and we knew not whether we were in heaven or on earth. (russian primary chronicle) Continuities with the roman empire: the destiny of the empire is to conquer and rule everyone. Believed they would take over one day. Theodoric, king of ostrogoths from 475 to 526. After justinian conquered italy and surrounding countries, the lombards invaded in 568. 717: constantinople (besieged) the other wars they had just gotten out of. The middle east was completely conquered by the muslims because the cities were exhausted by. Some christians preferred to have a muslim overload than a byzantine overload.
