Byzantine empire

  • Period: 280 to 337

    Constantine

    -born 280
    -was raised with Diocletian
    -father was a coemperor
    -nicene creed
    -edict of Milan
    -married 2 times
    -killed second wife and son
    -died 337
  • Period: 347 to 395

    Theodoucious

    -born 347
    -complet meme flavious theodoucious
    -father famous general
    -emperor Valence killed, came to power
    -Christianity oficial religon
    -ruled all empire
    -civil war
    -lowered taxes
    -died in Milan 395
  • Period: 483 to 565

    Justinian

    -born 483
    -married Theodora
    -Theodora was colapses adivisor
    -conquered lost land
    -Nika riots
    -Hagia Sophia
    -last emperor to speak Latin
    -Black Plague killed wife
    - died
  • Period: 575 to 641

    Heraclius

    -born 575
    -Persia concurred a lot of land
    -died 641
  • Period: 575 to 641

    Hraculus

    -born 575
    -Persia took territory away
    -Died in 641
  • Period: 752 to 803

    Irene of Athens

    -born 752
    -ended iconoclasm
    -first emperes
    -she wanted more power
    -she blinked her son
    -she had an arranged marige with leo theVI
    -died 803
  • Period: 957 to 1025

    Basil the II

    -born 957
    -military mind
    -defected Bulgarians
    -crowned co emperor with brother
    -ended he Anatolian aristocrat
    -died 1025
  • Period: 978 to 1050

    Zoe

    -born 978
    -uncle basil the II
    - killed first husband
    -turned the Hagia Sophia into a mosque
    - died 1050
  • Period: 980 to 1056

    Theodora

    -born 980
    -Zoe’s sister
    -Zoe become jelous of her
    -died 1056