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When Costantine moved his capital from rome in the west, he 

chose the ancient city of Byzantium in the East calling the 

empire the Eastern Roman empire.

Constantinople was the capitol of the Roman, 

Byzantium, Latin and the Ottoman empires. It was 

named after Constantine the great. The city's previous 

name was Byzantium.Its location was important because 

it overlooked the Bosporus and Dardanelles. In order to 

trade between the Mediterranean sea and the Black sea 

you had to go through Constantinople. 

Theodora was empress of the Roman Empire and wife of 

Emperor Justinian I. Theodora was born in 500 A.D. She 

was an entertainer, dancing on stage and providing 

sexual services off stage. She eventually gave up that 

life and became a wool spinner in a house near the 

palace. That is where she would meet her future 

husband Justinian I. Theodora would prove herself a 

worthy and able leader during the Nika riots with a 

speech she gave. She influenced the empire policies 

regarding women, including divorce laws and property. 

She had passed laws that prohibited forced prostitution 

and closed brothels. Theodora died of cancer on June 

28, 548 and her body was buried in the Church of the 

Holy Apostles, one of the churches she and Justinian 

had built in Constantinople

Cultural diffusion is when civilizations exchange 

ideas and Russians adopted the Byzantine Empires 

alphabet, religion, & architecture. The Russians 

adopted Orthodox Christianity from the Byzantines 

and Russian architecture was based on Byzantine 

traditions.    

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