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Title: BYZN Midterm Review

Description: Important Dates

Total Flash Cards: 49

Created: 10/19/2008 07:31:04

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Term
Medieval Byzantium
Definition
(ca. 800-1453 CE)
Term
Late Antiquity
Definition
(ca. 330-800 CE)
Term
Pre-modern <> Modern
Definition
(15th ce.--1945)
Term
From Scroll to Codex
Definition
(1st-4th centuries CE
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From Papyrus to Parchment
Definition
(4th, 13th ce.)
Term
Sea battle of Actium, Octavian becomes Augustus
 Definition
31 BCE September
Term
emperor Diocletian, Reforms
 Definition
284-305:
Term
The “Great Persecution”
 Definition
302:
Term
Constantine I
 Definition
306–337:
Term
The Battle of the Milvian bridge (Tiber, Italy
 Definition
312
Term
Edict of toleration of Christians
 Definition
313
Term
The Foundation of Constantinople
 Definition
330
Term
Death of Julian
 Definition
363
Term
Christianity the official state religion
 Definition
381
Term
Sack of Rome
 Definition
410
Term
Romulus Augustulus, The last Western Emperor
 Definition
476
Term
Theodosius II (and Pulcheria)
 Definition
408-450
Term
The Council of Ephesus
 Definition
431
Term
The Council of Chalcedon
 Definition
451
Term
The Reign of Justinian
 Definition
527-565
Term
The Nika Riot
 Definition
532
Term
The Great Plague
 Definition
542
Term
Heraclius
 Definition
610-641
Term
Persian-Avar siege of Constantinople
 Definition
626
Term
Battle at Yarmuk; decisive victory of the Muslim Arabs
 Definition
636
Term
The arrival of the Turkic Bulgars
 Definition
679
Term
Leo III
Definition
(717-741)
Term
Constantine V
Definition
(741-775)
Term
Plague
 Definition
747
Term
Council in Hieria near Constantinople);
Definition
754
Term
Empress Eirene
 Definition
(780-802)
Term
Constantine VI
Definition
(780-797)
Term
Seventh Ecumenical Council of Nicaea
Definition
787
Term
Coronation of Charlemagne: The Holy Roman Empire
 Definition
800
Term
Iconoclasm, Second Phase
 Definition
815-843
Term
Council at St. Sophia
 Definition
815
Term
Constantinopolitan Synod, "Sunday of Orthodoxy";
Definition
843
Term
Empress Theodora
Definition
(842-856)
Term
Mission to the Slavs (Cyril and Methodios)
 Definition
863
Term
Battle of Mantzikert (Arp Arslan)
 Definition
1071
Term
The ‘Schism’ between Churches, W and E
 Definition
1054
Term
the First Crusade reaches Constantinople
 Definition
1096
Term
Pope Innocent III, Crusader Papal Edict
 Definition
August 1198
Term
Franks “take the Cross”
 Definition
1199
Term
The Crusaders strike a deal with the Venetians and with Alexius Angelus
 Definition
April 1201
Term
the Crusaders outside Constantinople
 Definition
June 120
Term
Fourth Crusade captures and sacks Constantinople
 Definition
12 April 1204
Term
Byzantine Recovery of Constantinople
 Definition
1261
Term
The End of Byzantine Constantinople
 Definition
1453