Chapter 17 Flashcards
In 802, traveler made his way from Baghdad to Aacehn ?
An abino eleohat, a diplomatic gift from the the Abbasid Caliph Harun a Rashid to charlemagen.
What was the elephant called?
He was called Abu Al Abbas. in onor of Harthe Abbasids dunasty founder . Th elephant was born in idna and went to Baghdad as a present form an Indain king
What was Charlemagnes views on Islam?
He was not friendly to it. At the battle of Tourns, Charles mratel and defeated a muslime aremy that wventured into frakish territory .
How many embassies wre in baghdad?
Three and recieved three. They dealt with the safety of Christian pilgrims and mercahnts, reltations between Charlemagnes realm and western Europe.
What was the are between 500-1500 called?
The emdival period of European history
WHat three developments of early medival era served as foundation s for tehe development of the powrful society
- People of western Europe restored political order
- Europeans began a process of economic recover. They had agricultural produciton by increaisng the amount of ladn under cultivation and inroducting new tools and techniques laying an agricultural foundation for trade an drapid economic development after the thenth century
- Europeans people bult an instituitonal framework that enable the Christian church based in Rome to provde religious leadership and maintin culturla unity throhout western Europe
Who looked like they might reestablish imperial authority in Europe
The Franks .
What were the muslims?
Muslims, Hungarian Magyars,a nd Vikings
476
Odoacer deposed of the last of the western Roman emperors but the adminstrative apparatus of the Roman empire did not immediatly dissapear
After the Roman empire fell. what was the government like?
The provincial governmnors continued to rule thier territoriess aided by Roman bureaucrats and tax collectors and roman general s continued to field armies throughout the crumbling empire
Cities of western Roman empire
Lost population during the 5th century. As invasins and cntests for power disrupted trade and manufacturing.This decay of Roman cities hastened imeprial decline
Visigoths
Spain durign the 470s and established a kingdom there
Ostrogoths
dominated Italy from the 5th century
Lomabrd
filled Italy after the departure of Byzantine people
Gaul
fell under the octrol of other Germanic poeple including the Burgundians who settled in the souther and eatern eregions. And the Franks who brought the more northerly and westerly regions under their control
England?
Alges, Saxons, and Germanic poeple
Germanic people gradually displaced the authority and instituiton of Romae, and they
absorbed a lot of Roman influence. Many converted to Chiristianity and adapted law
The Franks influenced
The politcla, social and cultrual devlopmnt of western Europe
The Franks consturcted a society that
drew on the agricultural resource of continental Europe. The cent
Where did the center fo Western Eurpope shift to
Norht frnace, Germany and the low countries. Furthermore, the Grank
Furthermore,the Franks overaw the development of decentralized political institutions whcih influenced
The European politics and society for a mllenium
What did the Franks have littleexperience in?
Not muhc Roman society. Some of their ancesors ad lived within Roman boundaries since about the third century.
Whaen did Clovis rule
486-511
Under Clovis?
Th Franks became the military and political power in Western Europe
486
CLovis led Frankish forces on a campaign that wiped out the last vestiges of Roman authority in Gaul. Then, he imposed his authority on the Franks htemselges. He organized campaigns against other germanic people and he transformed them
After CLovis, what were the Franks
They were the strongest people.
What were was a a reason for the Franks rapid rise?
Religion, Originally, all the Germanic invaders of the Roman empire wer epolutheistc and were honoreing a pantheon of warlike gods. They soon converted to Christianity
What did the Franks convert to
Accepted Arian Chrisitanity. Ut, church authoritis commended it. Clovis convetted to Roman Christianity by the influence of his wife Clotilda
What were the political implication sof the conversion
Franks attracted the alleigiance of The Christian popuaiton and the churh
After Clovis’s death
Franks lost mnuch of thier authority as aristocratic warrors seized control.
Carolingian dynasty takes its anme from
Charles Martel: Charles the Hammer because of his military prowess
732
Battle of Tours: he turned back a Muslim rmy that had ventured from Sapin, recently conquered by Muslim warriors from north Africa. It helepd to persuatde uslim rulers tat it was not wrothwhile to seeek furhter conquests
Charlemagne
786-814
What feats did Charlemagne have?>
Temporarily reestablished centralized mimperial rule in a soceity disrupted by invasion adn contests for power. He had a lot fo emergy,
Qulities of Charlemagne?
He was extremely intelligent. He spoke atin, understood some greek and egularly conversed with Theologians and other men. He maintianed diplomatic relations with the Byzantine and Abbaside Empire s
When Charlemage inherited the Frankish thrne, what lands did he hae?
Included most of modern france as well asthe lands that now for Beglgium, the Netherlands and Soutweste Germany
Where di Charlemagne capaign for 32 years
To impose his rul on the Sacon s in Germany
Where did Charlemagne establish a court?
At aachen, but he spent most of his reign travelling throughout his alm to maintin authority. Such consist travel was nece
Why did Charlemagne travel so much
because he didn not have the financial resources to maintan an eaborate bureaucracy or an adminstrative apparatus that oculd implement his politicies
What were counts
They were aristocratic deputues that held political, military authority and legl under some jurisdictions
Missi Domici
enoys of the lord ruler who traveled every year to all local jurisdiciton and reviewd the accounds
What did Charlemagne build the Frankish kindom into an emire
on the basis of military expeditions and began to outfit it with some centralzd institutions. Yet, he hesitated to call himself emperor because of byzantium
800
Charlemange is crowend emperor by Poe lLeo. He did not know about this, but he had already built an impoerail state
How did the Carlogian state collapse
Internal disunity and exterbak ubvasuibs