Compare And Contrast Byzantium And Russia

There were two major civilizations for Christianity, which was Byzantium and the Roman Empire, both splitting in a feud between several arguments. The Roman Empire eventually collapsed, yet the Byzantium with Orthodox Christianity survived and lived on. Byzantium spread their influence to places like the Balkans, and especially western Russia. The capital of Byzantium was Constantinople, built by a foundation of a town called Byzantium. This capital, at the times when both the Roman Empire and Byzantium were parts of each other, was where new, separate eastern emperors ruled. Latin became the court language, and Greek was the common language, whereas in the Roman Empire, Latin was the only language. The Arab Muslims began to challenge Byzantium with

The Roman Catholics, on the other hand, succeeded in converting that area. The missionaries did not give up but went to south Russia with success because of their knowledge of the Slavic language. They even made a written script for the language, coming from Greek letters. Because of that, literature and literacy could have spread outside of Byzantium. The Byzantines were lenient on languages for church services, but the Roman Catholics had to use Latin. Byzantium especially affected the Russian civilization, but Russia did not gain importance till 1450. The Slavic peoples moved into Russia and eastern Europe and mixed with the natives and additional invaders. They adopted the Slavic language and custom. They already used iron and spread agriculture to present-day Ukraine and west Russia. These people were animistic, but would later convert to Christianity. Scandinavians in the 6th and 7th centuries traveled through Slavic lands by rivers, especially Dneiper. Norse traders went through these rivers and to the Byzantines at Constantinople, resulting to trade that deeply impacted Russia in the