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INTO HISTORY ONE GOLDEN AGE — AND ANOTHER Pg 38 ® Constantinople Falls! Pg 50 Out with the Icons — and In!! Pg 18 Digging Up Don ...

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illustration by Tim Oliphant MUSINGS Thesearecommontoall(and not capable of being owned): the air, running water, the sea, and t ...

2 T he phrase “Byzantine Empire” refers to the eastern half of the Roman Empire, In fact, this eastern section survived for 1,00 ...

3 when opposing political factions banded together against him in uprisings. At the time, almost half of Constantinople was burn ...

4 case, however. After the retirement of theAugusti (plural ofAugustus), there were quarrels among the successors, and war broke ...

5 Underlying tensions between the two led to the Battle of Chrysopolis in 324C.E. Licinius surrendered and was later executed, l ...

66 Emperor Constantine I dedicates Constantinople as the new capital of Roman Empire. Emperor Theodosius I declares &KULVWLD ...

by Sarah Novak Alexander had captured a pair of griffins and underfed them for three days (illustration above shows Alexander ca ...

8 by Anthony Hollingsworth illustrated by Chris Sabatino From Greek to Latin to Greek I n the fourth centuryC.E., the new empero ...

conquered most of the known world to the east of Greece. In fact, he had led his armies to the borders of India and conquered ev ...

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I n 313C.E., there were two emperors in the Roman world. One was Constantine, who ruled the western half of the Roman Empire. Th ...

that a group of angry Christians wounded the emperor. Whichever (if either) story is true, Julian died soon afterward. After his ...

believed that God and Jesus were equal. If you believed in Arianism and did not convert, you were punished. A BAN ON CURRICULUM ...

14 A ccording to Islamic beliefs, Prophet Muhammad was born in 570C.E. (see image at right), in the city of Mecca (also spelled ...

15 God (called Allah in Arabic) over a period of 23 years. That message — an oral and later written book — is called the Qur’an. ...

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18 writings were obliterated, when the iconophiles — those who venerated icons — finally triumphed. It may be that the iconoclas ...