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This PowerPoint slide show was created to accompany a lecture on the Christianization of the Roman (and later "Byzantine") Empire from Diocletian's "Great Persecution" to the Fall of Constantinople in 1453.
4. TERMS LIST
(All terms can be referenced online)
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5.
Diocletian
Tetrarchy
Great Persecution
Constantine
Battle of the
Milvian Bridge
6. Labarum [Chi Rho]
7. Edict of Milan
14. TERMS LIST
(All terms can be referenced online)
1. Byzantium
2. Constantinople
3. Heresy
4. Arianism
5. Trinity
6. Council of Nicea
7. Creed
8. Orthodoxy
9. Julian the Apostate
10. Apostasy
Galileans
12. Natural Religion
13. Revealed Religion
14. School Edict [Julian]
15. Theodosius
16. State Religion
17. Thessalonica
Massacre
18. Ambrose of Milan
19. Excommunication
20.Penance
15. PRIMARY SOURCE:
Julian the Apostate,
Against the Galileans
Complete the following in the Bell Ringer section of your notebook:
1. Who was Julian referring to when he
wrote of the “Galileans”? Why would
he use this term?
2. What were Julian’s chief criticisms of
the “Galileans”?
3. How would you characterize Julian’s
own views of religion?
22. Julian “the
Apostate”
• Against the Galileans
– Pamphlet against
Christianity
• School Edict
– Teachers approved by
gov
• “You have won,
Galilean!”
360-363
24. Theodosius
(r. 379-395)
• LAST sole ruler of a
united Roman Empire
– [East/West divide after
death]
• Christianity as the
OFFICIAL religion
• Closes Pagan temples –
sends home Vestal
Virgins
27. TERMS LIST
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5.
Fall of Rome [476]
Byzantine
Justinian
Theodora
Nika Riots
6. Corpus Juris Civilis
7. Hagia Sophia
12. Hellenization
13. Basileus
14. Theme System
15. Icons
16. Iconoclast
17. Iconodule
18. Irene
19. Seventh Ecumenical
Council
9. Belisarius
20. Fall of Constantinople
10. “Last of the Romans”
[1453]
8. Renovatio Imperii
11. Heraclius
46. Irene
The Empress,
Irene, who ruled in
her own right
after the deaths
of her sons, was
canonized as a
saint for her role
in restoring the
use of icons.
(r. 797-802)
47. Double Eagle
A Symbol of
the Byzantine
emperors
Symbolism:
Church and State
East and West