Tricky Byzantine questions...

[Kennelly]

Originally posted by andycapp
1. What was the name of the battle at which Constantine effectively established control of the empire?

Battle of the Milvian bridge?

 

[andycapp]

Originally posted by Kennelly

Originally posted by andycapp
1. What was the name of the battle at which Constantine effectively established control of the empire?

Battle of the Milvian bridge?

Correct This battle is probably best remembered as the battle that established Christianity as the dominant religion of the Roman empire.

Still Q4 unanswered.

 

[Kennelly]

Originally posted by andycapp


4. At what decisive battle were the Byzantines defeated by this new menace? And what natural event contributed to the Byzantine defeat during the battle?

Andy.

Puh,battle of Yarmouk,I think. (636)

But I have no idea about the natural event.A flooding?

 

[andycapp]

Originally posted by Kennelly


Puh,battle of Yarmouk,I think. (636)

But I have no idea about the natural event.A flooding?

Correct, it was the battle of Yarmuk. The natural event I was referring to was a violent sandstorm that swept up from the south and gave the Muslim General Khalid the opportunity to charge the Byzantine troops blinded by the sandstorm, which resulted in the anihilation of the Byzantine army.

Kennelly, care to ask some questions?

 

[Kennelly]

Only a few easy one:

1.What was the "Two-Emperor-Problem"?

2.Who lost the main battle against the seldschuks in 1176?Where?

3.Who was the first Emperor of the Palaiologes dynasty(sp.)?

Sorry,don?t know more or harder questions.