When Emperor Constantine moved his capital from Rome to Byzantia, his mother built a large church near the tomb of Jesus in Jerusalem, the capital of Palestine. The Romans used Latin during this period, but Greek was spoken in the Eastern Empire. The cultures of these two regions were also different.
Roman culture considered itself superior, so it tried to suppress the culture of the Byzantine region, but Roman culture could not be completely successful in this task. The new capital of the Roman Empire 'Constantinople' was named as Constantinople in India and 'Rome' in Muslim countries. On the lines of 'room' and 'Romania' was called.
Due to this name being in vogue for many centuries, even today, in many countries of the world, Kustunnia is called 'room' and 'Romania' is called. This new capital of the Roman Empire was located on the eastern border of Europe, from where it could be easily seen towards the continent of Asia.
Decrease in importance of Rome
The political and religious map of the world changed with the change of capital of the Roman Empire. Old Rome and its ancient religion became almost unimportant and were replaced by the new capital, Constantinople, and the new Christianity. At that time, most of the goods of trade between Europe and Asian countries passed through this route.
Due to this the new capital started getting a lot of taxes, but the biggest weakness of the new capital was that the major cities of Europe including Rome, Gaul and Britain were far away from this new capital.
Division of the Roman Empire
To run the rule of the empire smoothly, two separate emperors were arranged in Rome and Constantinia, who jointly ruled the entire Roman Empire. Out of these, the ruler of Constantinia was called Emperor and the ruler of Rome was called Co-Emperor. In AD 395, Rome's co-emperor Theodius (I) separated Rome from Constantinople. At that time, Constantine's second or third successor was ruling Kustunnia.
Thus the Roman Empire was divided into two parts - the Western Roman Empire with Rome as its capital and the Eastern Roman Empire with its capital at Constantinia. From AD 395 to AD 480, the emperors of the Eastern Roman Empire recognized the rulers of the Western Roman Empire.
Kafir Julian
Constantine's fourth successor named 'Julian' wanted to leave Christianity and return to ancient Roman religion i.e. Paganism, which was an idol-worship religion of ancient Roman gods and goddesses, but he wanted the public to return to the old religion. could not prepare. By this time Christianity was rapidly taking over. Christians named this emperor 'Kafir Julian'. He is still known by this name in history.
Theodosie the Great
After Julian, 'Theodosie the Great' became the ruler of the Eastern Roman Empire. Happened. He hated the ancient Roman religion. That is why he destroyed a large number of idols and temples of the gods and goddesses of ancient religion. That is why Christians called him great. Theodosie killed not only non-Christians, but also those Christians who were not devout Christians in Theodosian's view.
In AD 392, Theodosi reunited the Eastern and Western Roman Empires, but in AD 395, Emperor Theodosi divided the kingdom among his two sons. Due to this the Western Roman Empire and the Eastern Roman Empire reappeared.
Emperor Justinian's Code
In AD 527, a king named Justinian became the lord of the Eastern Roman Empire. He conquered the rich regions of North Africa and the ancient Roman lands of Italy, as well as parts of Hispania. He expelled the Goths from Italy and for some time annexed Italy and Sicily in his empire, but later the Goths again took control of Italy. After some time Sicily also fell out of the authority of the Eastern Roman Empire.
Justinian built the beautiful cathedral of Sankta Sophia in Kustunnia. Justinian collected all the Roman laws prevalent during his time in one place and arranged them in a systematic manner with the help of qualified lawyers. This book is called 'Constitutionum of Justinian' and Code Constitutionum called.
This code became the main source of modern European law. This Samhita provides less rights to the citizens as compared to the Dharmashastra of Manu. The Roman law gave almost free authority (patria potesta) to the head of the household (pater familias).
He was the master of all property and slaves. Wife and daughter had no right over property and slaves. The daughter was also in the possession of the father till the marriage took place and after the marriage she went under the authority of the husband. The slave class was not given any rights in the Roman Code and they were only the property of their master.
This was completely contrary to the basic concepts of Manu. In Manu Samhita, the son had ownership in the property of the joint family and there was a system of women's wealth. Even the servant had the right over the property of the servant. According to Manu all citizens were equal.
This difference in the rights of citizens was because the Roman law was composed by the emperor and not by the sages or scholars. Whereas the theology of Manu was composed by a sage. Justinian closed the educational institution of Ancient Greek Philosophy established a thousand years ago by Plato (Aflatun) in Kostuntunia and built a new university based on the teachings of Christianity in its place. It was astonishing that in this era, Constantinople had moved far away from the ideas of Rome and became a part of the Greek ideological empire, but it came into existence five hundred years before the Christian philosophy, breaking away from the one thousand year old philosophy of Greece. was moving rapidly towards.
Gathering of greedy kings and queens
In the royal family of Kustuntuniya, deep conspiracies were used to get power. In AD 780, the nine-year-old son of Emperor Leo IV, Constantine VI, became the ruler of the Eastern Roman Empire. His mother Irene ruled the Eastern Roman Empire through regency until AD 790.
She was the princess of Athens and Constantine VI was his only son, but Irene was so enamored of power that when the king was 26 years old, Irene took her captive and blinded her in AD 797. The king died within a few days of eye wounds and Irene became the empress of Kustuntunia.
This is probably the only instance in the world when a mother killed her son and took his throne. In the end this queen was also killed. Even after many such incidents, the Eastern Roman Empire continued for the next seven hundred years, but since our central theme is Rome, we will have to summarize the story of the Eastern Roman Empire a bit.