Ch.12 SS

• Education and learning were highly respected in the Byzantine empire
• Constantinople at first resembled cities in the Roman empire
• Horace wrote odes which were poems that express strong emotions about life
• Roman statues were more realistic than those of the Greeks
• Tapestries were created from heavy woven fabrics with colorful embroidery
• Galen emphasized the importance of studying body structure
• More Germanic tribes attacked Rome after the Battle of Adrianople
• Enslaved Romans were often skilled and educated
• Theodosius decided to have the Roman Empire divided after his death
• Romulus Augustus was the young, western emperor that Odoacer overthrew
• Pope Gregory the first wrote about the fall of Rome and how it affects its people
• The Justinian Code has been the basics for legal systems in many countries