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I From Eastern to Byzantine Empire [WEB:Byzantium] [IMG:City Plan of Constantinople ] [TXT: Sozomen (d. c. 450): Constantine Founds Constantinople, 324, from Ecclesiastical History 2.3]
  1. Byzantine Government [TXT:Corpus Iuris Civilis [selections]]
  2. Byzantine Christianity [TXT: John of Damascus: In Defence of Icons, c 730, extracts]
  3. Byzantine Culture
    1. Art [TXT: Procopius: Description of Hagia Sophia] [WEB:Hagia Sophia: Photo and Video Gallery]
    2. Literature

II The Byzantine Centuries
  1. Age of Justinian 527-565 [TXT: Procopius: On Justinian, from Secret History][IMG:Justinian][IMG:Theodora][IMG:The Empire Under Justinian, c. 565]
  2. Rentrenchment c. 570-850 [IMG:Greek Fire in Use. Madrid Skylitzes Manuscript]
  3. Macedonian Revival c. 850-1050 [TXT: Liutprand of Cremona (c.922-c.972): Report on Mission to Constantinople, 963, excerpts]
    1. Conquests
    2. Conversion of the Slavs [TXT:Russian Primary Chronicle: The Christianisation of Russia, 988]

III The Ascent of Islam [WEB:Islamic History Sourcebook]
  1. Arabia and Muhammad (c. 571-632) [IMG:Muhammad's Armies in Battle][IMG:Muhammad on a camel/ Jesus on Donkey - MS of Rashid-al-din Color]
  2. Islam [IMG:Qu'ran [Kufic Script]] [TXT: Qu'ran: Surahs 1 and 47 [Surah 1: Audio | Surah 47: Audio]]

IV The Islamic Empire [WEB:EAWC: Early Islam]
  1. The Early Conquests: 632-655 [IMG: Map: Muslim Expansion after Muhammad's Death]
  2. Civil War: 655-661
  3. The Umayyad Dynasty 661-750 [TXT:Arabs, Franks, and the Battle of Tours: Three Accounts 732]
  4. Converts and Dhimmi [TXT:The Pact of Umar ]
  5. The Golden Age of the Abbasids: 750-950 [TXT: Yakut. Baghdad under the Abbasids, c. 1000] [TXT:An Arab Ambassador in Constantinople, late 10th Century]
  6. Fragmentation after 950

V Islamic Culture [TXT: Ibn Sina (Avicenna) (973-1037): On Medicine, c. 1020]





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