*All dates CE unless otherwise noted
Broken up into 3 main "Golden Ages"
Early: 527-726 During Justinian's rule (527-565) to the beginning of Iconoclasm
Middle: 843-1204 Relinquishment of the Iconoclasm to the Western Crusader's' occupation of Constantinople
Late: 1261- 1453 The recapture of Constantinople to the fall of the city to the Ottoman Turks in 1453
313 - Edict of Milan: Granted by Constantine the Great in the West and Licinius Augustus in the East
- Ordered restitution of property to persecuted Christians and granted religious freedom
324 - Constantine I founded Constantinople
391 - Theodosius prohibits pagan worship
410 - Official sack of Rome
- Division of Roman Empire into West vs. East is permanent
- West = modern western European nations --> East = Byzantium but called themselves "Roman" and spoke Greek, not Latin
and known as western Roman Catholics and known as Orthodox Christians
6th c - Justinian proclaimed Christianity as only lawful religion
1453 - Byzantium falls to Ottoman Turks