Dig Into History

19 The council denounced icons as “common” and “worthless.” Icon venerators were persecuted, even put to death. Monks in monasti ...

by Sona Hoisington Justinian Theodora ...

he Byzantine Empire was at its pea under the emperor Justinian. It stretched from Ravenna on the Adr coast of Italy, through the ...

22 External Enemies In 626, the Persians, aided by their neighboring allies, lay siege to Constantinople. According to legend, o ...

3 Just put Moscow on my travel-stops list! I definitely want to see this icon, known as the Virgin of Vladimir . ...

222222 turning the Slavs, pagan tribes who had frequently attacked them, into allies. How were they able to do this? They did so ...

rchaeologists canlearn alot abouthow peopleinthe past IT lllllooookkedbyyystudyyyinggtheimaggestheyypproducedofthemselveess. ® B ...

26 by Jack ChengbyJackCheng Old Dongola — At the Edge o View of Old Dongola T raveling over land, the distance from Constantinop ...

27 An Exception in Africa When Queen Cleopatra died in 30 B.C.E., her nation of Egypt became a province of the Roman Empire. For ...

28 Christianity in the sixth century C.E. As the Makurians expanded north, they came into direct contact with Byzantine Egypt. E ...

A Revealing Mural To the northeast of Throne Hall stands the Monastery of St. Anthony. It is believed to have been founded by th ...

3030 The Influence of Byzantine Justinian I works with his advisors to compile a universal set of laws. ...

3131 The Roman Empire was known for the Pax Romana (“Roman Peace”). This 200-year period of empire-wide peace was based on relig ...

32 As Byzantine trade grew, there was an increased need for regulations. The Byzantines recognized that they needed to pass laws ...

33 from the Roman Empire. Leo VI also added new rules that regulated trade and trade organizations and standardized the duties o ...

34 A s with Greek and Roman women, mos Byzantine women spent much of their women’s quarters called gynaikonitisth to men. (Note: ...

n Control everal women ruled the Byzantine Emp wn names or as co-regents. Male milita ere the norm, but intelligent and stron om ...

Paris, France’s capital. There the horses were put atop a triumphal arch built in Napoleon’s honor, theArc du Carrousel.But afte ...

STRANGE BUT TRUE by Sarah Novak 37 Sometimes, he had to persuade his soldiers not to fight each other. Early in the morning of M ...

38 by Emily Abbink T he Eastern Roman Empire, the so-called Byzantine Empire, experienced two Golden Ages — that is, periods of ...