Italian
splendour
Sophia
Persians
527
Modern
enemies
east
Muslims
Constantine
Patriarch
Hagia
south
6th
law
fell
High
395
territories
1453
western
discovery
Middle
Catholic
Roman
Byzantine
565
Constantinople
Slavs
Orthodox
political
western
1054
process
Eastern
Schism
Iustiinianus
Byzantion
Caesaropapism
Ottoman
religious
1492
decline
Theodosius
architecture
Columbus
north
The
____________________
Empire
has
its
origin
in
the
division
of
the
____________________
Empire
in
____________________
when
____________________
the
Great
died
.
The
____________________
part
of
the
Empire
had
its
capital
in
____________________
,
which
had
been
founded
earlier
in
the
same
century
by
the
emperor
____________________
in
the
site
of
the
former
Greek
colony
of
____________________
.
The
period
of
greatest
____________________
of
the
Byzantines
was
during
the
reign
of
Justinian
I
the
Great
in
the
____________________
century
,
between
____________________
and
____________________
.
This
emperor
had
the
reference
of
the
power
of
the
____________________
Roman
Empire
,
so
among
other
things
he
conquered
____________________
that
once
belonged
to
the
____________________
part
:
____________________
peninsula
,
south
-
____________________
of
the
Iberian
Peninsula
and
north
-
____________________
Africa
.
In
addition
to
that
,
he
codified
Roman
____________________
into
what
is
known
as
the
Codex
____________________
and
he
ordered
to
build
____________________
____________________
,
considered
the
greatest
example
of
Byzantine
____________________
and
one
of
the
most
important
buildings
of
the
Middle
Ages
.
After
Justinian's
death
,
the
Byzantine
Empire
suffered
a
____________________
of
slow
____________________
,
mostly
caused
by
the
appearance
of
____________________
such
as
the
____________________
(
Islamic
Caliphates
)
from
the
____________________
-
east
,
the
____________________
from
the
____________________
and
the
____________________
from
the
east
.
Little
by
little
,
their
territories
were
smaller
until
there
was
only
Constantinople
and
few
other
places
,
which
eventually
____________________
in
the
hand
of
the
____________________
Turks
in
____________________
.
This
event
is
considered
by
many
the
end
of
the
____________________
Ages
and
the
beginning
of
the
____________________
Age
,
since
it
paved
the
way
of
the
geographical
explorations
which
led
to
the
____________________
of
America
by
Christopher
____________________
in
____________________
.
Politically
speaking
,
the
Byzantine
empire
was
based
on
the
concept
of
____________________
,
which
meant
that
the
____________________
power
controlled
the
____________________
power
by
appointing
the
____________________
of
Constantinople
,
head
of
the
____________________
Christian
Church
.
This
religion
appeared
officialy
after
the
Eastern
____________________
in
____________________
,
when
the
separation
from
the
Roman
____________________
Church
was
made
effective
.