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Church Division
• SSWH4 The student will analyze the importance of the Byzantine and Mongol
• empires between 450 CE and 1500 CE. • b. Describe the relationship between the
Roman and Byzantine Empires; include the impact Byzantium had on Moscow and the Russian Empire, the effect of Byzantine culture on Tsar Ivan III and Kiev, and the rise of Constantinople as a center for law, religion, and the arts.
• c. Explain the Great Schism of 1054 CE.
• Things began to develop differently– Distance too much
between East and West
– Lack of contact– Different cultural
practices
Eastern Church
• Followed early Church fathers
• Saint Basil-357– Wrote rules for life of monks– Describes how Christians
should behave• Not be showy in clothing• Consume nothing beyond
necessity• All men above himself
Eastern Church
Patriarch – leading bishop of the East, bowed to the emperor.
Belief in icons– Religious symbols
to aid in devotion
Western Church
• Papacy in total control—the Pope
• Had rule over emperor and all bishops in empire
The Split
• Schism of 1054– Split
• political conflicts • belief differences
– Pope and patriarch both excommunicated each other (cast out from the church)
– West = Roman Catholic = pope– East = Eastern Orthodox = patriarch
ASSIGNMENT
• P. 305
• Create your own Venn Diagram with the information about comparing 2 churches