(Is after Charlemagne and before William the Conqueror, computer messed it up, sorry)
Interview with Justinian
Q: What was the capital of the Byzantine Empire?
A: Constantinople. I built the Hagia Sophia there.
Q: What was the Justinian code?
A: I collected, revised, and organized laws of Ancient Rome, thus creating "Body of Civil Law." Autocracy comes out of this code.
Q: What is Autocracy?
A: It means that the Emperor and Christ's co-ruler on Earth, which gives you power and spirtiual authority. This led to the diffrences of east and west.
Q: What were the diffrences?
A: Well, the claims of authority for one. East (Byzantine Empire) believed in the Patriarch, while the West believed in the Pope. The use of Icons were different...
Q: What are "Icons"?
A: They are graven images, like images of Mary, of Jesus on the cross, things like that. The Roman Catholic Church believed that using these images made you believe in them, AKA Mary and the cross, instead of believing in God. In other words, they were religous figures. The Roman Catholic Church banned them.
Q: Any other major diffrences?
A: Marriage, and lanuguage. The east spoke Greek, and the west Latin.
Q: When was the Great Schism, and what happened?
A: It happened in 1054 East and west excommunicated eachother. This led to a branch in Christianity, which was huge! The East became Orthidox, and West became Roman Catholic.
Q: I heard there was a third branch, could you tell me a little about that?
A: Ahh yes, the Protesants. This came around much later with Martin Luther.
Q: Why did this branch come around?
A: In Wittenberg, Germany, Johann Tetzel was offering indulgences on the steps of a church. This angered Luther and he wrote 95 theses on why indulgences were bad. This gave him an audience, and when he refused to recant, no one could kill him because he was so popular. In 1530 , the Protestant branch was formed.
Interview with Justinian
Q: What was the capital of the Byzantine Empire?
A: Constantinople. I built the Hagia Sophia there.
Q: What was the Justinian code?
A: I collected, revised, and organized laws of Ancient Rome, thus creating "Body of Civil Law." Autocracy comes out of this code.
Q: What is Autocracy?
A: It means that the Emperor and Christ's co-ruler on Earth, which gives you power and spirtiual authority. This led to the diffrences of east and west.
Q: What were the diffrences?
A: Well, the claims of authority for one. East (Byzantine Empire) believed in the Patriarch, while the West believed in the Pope. The use of Icons were different...
Q: What are "Icons"?
A: They are graven images, like images of Mary, of Jesus on the cross, things like that. The Roman Catholic Church believed that using these images made you believe in them, AKA Mary and the cross, instead of believing in God. In other words, they were religous figures. The Roman Catholic Church banned them.
Q: Any other major diffrences?
A: Marriage, and lanuguage. The east spoke Greek, and the west Latin.
Q: When was the Great Schism, and what happened?
A: It happened in 1054 East and west excommunicated eachother. This led to a branch in Christianity, which was huge! The East became Orthidox, and West became Roman Catholic.
Q: I heard there was a third branch, could you tell me a little about that?
A: Ahh yes, the Protesants. This came around much later with Martin Luther.
Q: Why did this branch come around?
A: In Wittenberg, Germany, Johann Tetzel was offering indulgences on the steps of a church. This angered Luther and he wrote 95 theses on why indulgences were bad. This gave him an audience, and when he refused to recant, no one could kill him because he was so popular. In 1530 , the Protestant branch was formed.
