| | ENGLAND AND | BYZANTINE WORLD | WESTERN EUROPE —————————+——————————————————————————————————+————————————————————————— A.D. |Constantine the Great establishes |Teutonic and Asiatic 300-400 | capital of Roman Empire at | barbarians overrun Roman | Constantinople on site of | Empire | | ancient Byzantium, 330 | | | | ↓ | First division of Roman Empire into East and West, 364 | | | Final division of Roman Empire into East and West, 395 | | | | 400-500 | | Visigoths sack Rome, 410 | | | | Huns under Attila invade | | Europe, 445-453 | | | Period of decline | Western Europe lost to | | Roman Empire | | | | First Saxon kingdom in | | Britain, 477: Clovis I | | founds Frank kingdom in | | France, 481 | | 500-600 | Justinian the Great (Great | Beginning of modern | advancement of Byzantine | Western European | civilization), 527-565 | civilization | | | Laws codified | | | | Empire reaches greatest | | territorial extent | | (from Spain to Persia) | | | | Santa Sophia built, 532-537 | | | | First great age of | | Byzantine art | | | 600-700 | Persians defeated by Heraclius, | | 641; end of Persian dominion | | | | Byzantines drive Arabs away from | | Constantinople with “Greek | | fire,” 677 | | | 700-800 | Iconoclast controversy; image | Charles Martel defeats | worship forbidden by Leo the | Moslems at Tours, | Isaurian, 726 | France, 732; stops Arab