If YOU were there ... Main Ideas You are a trader visiting Constantinople. You have traveled to 1. Eastern emperors ruled from many cities but have never seen anything so magnificent. The city Constantinople and tried but failed to reunite the whole has...
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If YOU were there ... Main Ideas You are a trader visiting Constantinople. You have traveled to 1. Eastern emperors ruled from many cities but have never seen anything so magnificent. The city Constantinople and tried but failed to reunite the whole has huge palaces and stadiums for horse races. In the city center Roman Empire. you enter a church and stop, speechless with amazement. Above 2. The people of the eastern empire created a new society you is a vast, gold dome lit by hundreds of candles. that was very different from society in the west. How does the city make you feel about its rulers'! 3. Byzantine Christianity was different from religion in the west. t BUILDING BACKGROUND Even before the western empire fell to The Big Idea the Goths, power had begun to shift to the richer, more stable east. The Roman Empire split into The people of the eastern empire considered themselves Romans, two parts, and the eastern Roman Empire prospered for but their culture was very different from
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