The Byzanties

THE BYZANTIES
“AN EMPIRE OF ENGINEERING”
BY: HISTORY CHANNEL
CHARACTER(ACTION) | MOTIVATION | CONSEQUENCES |
Bizante( put the city in a passage between seas) | Have a better position | Make sGreek colony |
Constantine “the great”(280-337)(change the place of the capital) | Leave behind the political problems | Face water shortages |
Valens(328-378)(build a huge aqueduct of 240km) |Have fresh water in the city | Have one of the better water transportation system |
Atila( want to attack Rome) | Stay with all the money of that rich city | Make stronger the protection of Byzatium)|
Theodorious I(get the credit fot building a huge caliza stone wall) | Protect byzantium | Make no enemies entered the city |
TheodoriousII(get the city broke) | Buy a lot of unnecessary things| Get thecity really poor |
Justinian I(kill 30,000 people in the mika rise) | The people gen against him because his violence | The imperial troops massacre the people in the hipodromo |
Isodoroand Artemio (redesign the church | The emperator said them to re design the Santa Sofia church | They build one of the biggest churches of history from ruins |

The city was a Greek colony c.600b.cthat was build in the dark ages that was the time after the fall of Rome in which specially the Barbarians settle over Europe (5th century- 16th century), the colonist name was Byzantium named likethis in honor of Byzante
Byzantium was build in the strait of Bospliorus that connects the Black sea and Meditarean sea(Europe- Asia) the new capital was ”Nova Roma” or Constantinople actual capitalof Turkey, Estambul
Constantine want to leave political rivality behind and make a new and fresh city but staying with the Roman techniques an culture, it was a Christian city and this answer to thegeographical location
Even thought Constantine is venerated by Christianity, he did things that reflected his brutality, such as killing his wife and son- in- law, the fist big problem that...