NEW ROME REVIEW PROJECT

FALL OF ROME

• Internal problems and invasions spurred the division and decline of the Roman Empire.
• The decline and fall of great civilizations is a repeating pattern in world history.

RISE OF BYZANTINE EMPIRE

• After Rome split, the Eastern Empire, known as the Byzantium, flourished for a thousand years.
• Byzantine culture deeply influenced Orthodox Christianity, a major branch of Christianity.

JUSTINIAN CODE

• The body of Roman civil law collected and organized by order of the Byzantine emperor Justinian around A.D. 534.
• Consist 4 works
• “The Justinian Code decided legal questions that regulated whole areas of Byzantine life. Marriage, slavery, property, inheritance, women’s rights, and criminal justice were just some of those areas.

JUSTINIAN

• Died in 565
• His code served for 900 years.
• Armies won nearly all of Italy and parts of Spain.
• Launched the most ambitious public building program ever seen in the Roman world .
• Rebuilt the crumbling fortifications of Constantinople.

CHRISTIANITY

• Christianity arose in Roman occupied Judea and spread throughout the Roman Empire.
• Christianity has spread throughout the world and today has more than a billion followers.
• “Strengthened by their conviction that he had triumphed over death, the followers of Jesus continued to spread his ideas. Jesus’ teachings did not contradict Jewish law, and his first followers were Jews. ”

LEGACY OF ROME

• “The presence of Rome is still felt daily in the languages, the institutions, and the thought of the Western world."
• “Visitors from all over the empire marveled at the architecture of Rome.”