![]() Byzantine art featured beautiful mosaics of Christian themes. ![]() As you read in a previous chapter, Emperor Constantine ended the persecution of Christians, and Emperor Theodosius made Christianity the official state religion of the Roman Empire. Christianity had a major influence on the Byzantine Empire. Learning and trade thrived in the Byzantine Empire. The Byzantine Empire was influenced by the Hellenistic culture created by the conquests of Alexander the Great. The emperors and empresses wore beautiful silk and purple-dyed clothing, with expensive slippers. People spoke Greek and wore Greek-styled clothing. ![]() Notice the iron chain, called a boom, across the Golden Horn, it prevented enemy ships from sailing into that area.Īlthough the people of the Byzantine Empire considered themselves Roman, the East was influenced by Greek culture, rather than the Latin of the West. The city of Constantinople, built on a peninsula surrounded by three bodies of water: the Bosphorus, Sea of Marmara, and the Golden Horn. ![]()
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