Strayer 10, Christendom

17/10/2015

Bingham

17/10/2015 21:57:34

Let's do this...

Sydney Han

18/10/2015 18:48:26

BPQ 1: How did the histories of the Byzantine Empire and Western Europe differ during the era of third-wave civilizations? (I hope I got this right...)

- the Byzantine empire continued through the period as a single political entity while Western Europe politically collapsed in the 5th century (there was no reunification)
-After 1000, the influence that Western Europe had in the Mediterranean and in Eastern Europe expanded as the influence of the Byzantine Empire became more limited (esp in the Mediterranean Basin) after 600 C.E.
-In the Byzantine empire a relationship called caesaropapism came into play, where the Church was intimately tied to the state. The emperor assumed both the head of state and the head of the Church, thus exerting greater control over the Orthodox Church than political authorities in W. Europe did over the Catholic Church.
- After the collapse of the Roman Empire in the 5th century, Western Europe's role in trade declined, but reengaged with those formerly deteriorated trade networks after 1000 C.E. while the Byzantine Empire maintained a prominent role in the long distance trade networks of Eurasia throughout the period.

cathleen

19/10/2015 18:29:31

Bueller?
Bueller?
Anyone?
Bueller?

How did links to Byzantium transform the new civilization of Kievan Rus

Links to Byzantium transformed kievan rus by the adoption of byzantine religion that was sought after by vladimir. Byzantine churches attracted kievan rus to Byzantium. Political ties with byzantine like the byzantine wife vladimir and priest received influenced their transformation. Kievan rus adopted the byzantine styling in architecture, cyrilic alphabet, extensive use of icons, monastic tradition and prayer, polictial ideals of imperial control of church.

Anything else?

Bingham

19/10/2015 18:49:49

I've been here all along! Looks good guys.

cathleen

19/10/2015 19:44:45

In what respects did byzantium continue the patterns of the classical roman empire? in what ways did it diverge from those patterns?

CONTINUE PATTERNS
Byzantium had roman taxation system, military structure, centralized administration, imperial court, laws, Christianity
called themselves "romans" or new romans, in continuance of the romans.
DISCONTINUE AND DIVULGED FROM PATTERN
never approximated size pattern of roman empire
reformed administrative system with appointed generals civil authority that allowed them to raise armies from landowning peasants.
utilized ceasaropapismm where the state and church leader were one.
-was able to defend itself from intruders through its navy, army, marine, and diplomacy. (unlike roman empire who were overwhelmed by hun and germanic intruders.)

Not relevant, but related:
Byzantium was like the Tang dynasty because both sought restore of the glory of a previous era. Han and the roman empire, respectively.

Anyone want to critique?

elle norman

21/10/2015 18:13:32

Oh don't forget that Byzantium continued Rome's long political and military struggle with Persia! Other than that your answer looks A+! :)

Bingham

21/10/2015 18:34:25

I like your comparison to T'ang China. That's a good catch. This idea of a return to the good ole days is a reoccurring theme in legitimizing new ideas/systems. You will see it again, this year and beyond. Romanticism for example was a literary movement that hardened back to this period in European history. Ironic, right?

Bingham

21/10/2015 18:35:38

*harkened
I hate my phone.

Kendal LeFlore

19/10/2015 21:12:43

Reading this chapter, I found it a bit difficult imaging the size fluctuations of the Byzantine Empire. Fortunately, I found this handy animated map of the Roman Empire. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GylVIyK6voU Halfway through the video, the eastern and western split occurs. I was surprised at how small Byzantium seemed in relation to the other large states we've been learning about. Anyway, hope it helps!)

Now let's get down to byzness: "In what ways was the Byzantine Empire linked to a wider world?"

-Politically, Byzantium continued the long-term Roman struggle with the Persian Empire.
-Economically, Byzantium was a central player in the long-distance trade in Eurasia. Its gold coin was a widely used currency in the Mediterranean Basin.
-Culturally, Byzantium transmitted its ancient Greek heritage both west into the Christian world and east into the Islamic world. Also, they overtook many of the northern Balkan Slavic peoples, an offensive made easier with the ability to write Slavic languages using a previously developed Greek-based alphabet.

Olivia

20/10/2015 19:45:04

THANK YOU SO MUCH KENDAL. I had a hard time really visualizing this as well. And this helped me a lot.

elle norman

21/10/2015 18:15:21

Another little bit would be that the Byzantine Empire spread their religion (Orthodox) to Slavic/Northern peoples (Kievan Rus).

Bingham

21/10/2015 18:37:39

Ha! Byznes. Nice!

Bingham

21/10/2015 18:49:50

Just to reward these few, very few, quality responses, I'll throw you little scamps a bone...How did Eastern Orthodox Christianity differ from Roman Catholicism?

Unlike Western Europe, where the Catholic Church maintained some degree of independence from political authorities, in Byzantium the emperor assumed something of the role of both “Caesar,” as head of state, and the pope, as head of the Church. Thus the Byzantine emperor appointed the patriarch of the Orthodox Church, sometimes made decisions about doctrine, called church councils into session, and generally treated the Church as a government department. You need the word, "caesaropapism."

In the Eastern Orthodox Church, Greek became the language of religious practice instead of the Latin used in the Roman Catholic Church.

More so than in the West, Byzantine thinkers sought to formulate Christian doctrine in terms of Greek philosophical concepts.

The Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches disagreed on a number of doctrinal issues, including the nature of the Trinity, the relative importance of faith and reason, and the veneration of icons.

Priests in Byzantium allowed their beards to grow long and were permitted to marry, while priests in the West shaved and, after 1050 or so, were supposed to remain celibate.

Orthodox ritual called for using bread leavened with yeast in the mass, but Catholics used unleavened bread.

Eastern Orthodox leaders sharply rejected the growing claims of Roman popes to be the sole and final authority for all Christians everywhere.

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