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Constantine is born in 280 CE in Maissus
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Diocletian used the sons of his co-emperors for blackmail. Constantine was Constantius (co-emperor of Gaul) son
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Constantine the Great reigned from 312 CE to 324 CE emperor of the western empire and from 324 CE to 337 Ce he ruled over the Roman Empire. he was declared emperor by the army in 306 CE but he wasn't officially declared emperor until 312
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Constantine defeats Maxentius in CE
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By doing this he made the persecution of Christians illegal.
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During his reign. Historians don't know the exact year
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this battle was fought18 September 324 at Chrysopolis between Constantine and Licinius who were former allies. After this war Constantine becomes soul emperor.
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He did this by calling the council of Nicaea and making a reunion of Bishops to end the disagreement over religion by creating the Nicene Creed.
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Constantine moves the capital to the East into modern-day Turkey and names it Constantinople
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Constantine dies in 337 CE in Ancyrona (modern-day Izmit, Turkey)
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He is born in Cauca in 347 CE
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They have two kids: Pulcheria and Arcadius who is the one meant to follow the throne
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Theodosius I ruled from 379 to 395 CE.
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Died in Mediolanum in 395 CE
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Justinian is born in Constantinople 483 CE
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Born in 497 CE in Crete or Syria (historians are not sure which location is correct)
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Ruled from 527 CE to 565 CE
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Ruled from 527 CE until her death in 548 CE
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During her reign she is mostly remembered for recognizing women rights and helping her husband with laws who benefited women.
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Justinian established a set of laws that united the empire. Four books: Codex Constitutionum (527), Digesta (530-533), Institutiones (533) and lastly Novellae Constitutiones Post- Codicem (565)
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On 1 April 527 CE she is crowned empress along the side of her husband.
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It is said that during her reign along with her husband she recognized women rights and even implemented laws helping women become more independent.
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The Hagia Sophia was a christian church that eventually turned to a muslim mosque built by Justinian I after the Nika Riots. It is also known as the church of Holy Wisdom and was built to give a message and leave a legacy. It was built from 532 to 537
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the Nika Riot was a revolt held inJanuary, 532 C.E., in Constantinople were Justinian attracted the rebels who were mad for their life conditions and the raised taxes into the Hippodrome and his soldiers massacred.
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In 540 CE she accepted that Jesus Christ was only one devine nature
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In 540 Theodora starts to believe that Jesus Christ had only one nature.
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It is said that for personal hatred Theodora caused john to be banished from the court in 541.
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She dies in Constantinople in 548 CE. Her cause of death was cancer or what historians believe.
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Justinian I dies in 565 in Constantinople
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Born in 575 CE in Cappadocia
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Byzantine emperor from 610 CE to 641 CE
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In October, 610 CE he is crowned emperor of a crumbling state.
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In 617 or 619 Heraclius made an effort to calm down the Avars so he met them at Thracian Heraclea were they captured him.
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In 625 Heraclius retired to Anatolia.
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Heraclius invades Persia in December 627 were he killed three Persian generals in single combat as well as the Persian commander giving him a victory
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he restored the cross to the church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem
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Heraclius died Feb. 11, 641 CE in Constantinople
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Born in Athens in 752 CE
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Irene of Athens ruled from 780 CE to 802
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Irene permitted the restoration of the worship of icons
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In 782, Irene orders Michael Lachanodrakon, Constantine V’s general to attack the Arab army on the Eastern frontier.
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In 784 she replaces Constantinoples former Patriarch with Saint Tarasius another Patriarch who was important
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Reunited the Eastern Church
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Irene of Athens dies in Lesbos (greek island- banished there) in 803 CE
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Born in 958 CE in Constantinople
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Basil II ruled from 976 CE to 1025 CE
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Born in Constantinople in 978 CE
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From 986 until 1014 Basil extended imperial rule in Bulgaria,Mesopotamia, Georgia and Armenia because of the warfare between Byzantium and Bulgaria
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In August 986 CE he lost against Samuel of Bulgaria in a narrow Bulgarian mountain pass known as Trajan’s Gate making this Basil’s first and worst military expedition wasCE).
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Eventually , in 1018 CE Basil marched victorious to Service because bulgar lands were finally incorporatedA into the Byzantine Empire.
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Basil II dies in Constantinople in 1025 CE
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Zoe ruled from 1028 CE to 1050 CE
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They are both pronounced co- empresses.
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Zoe and Theodora make a charity for the poor people and gave public audiences
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Zoe dies in Constantinople in 1050 CE