Chapter 9 Flashcards
Byzantines; military victories over new territories brought prestige and wealth; the empowers created…
stronger more centralized governments
Was the cultural and commercial capital of the Christian world…
Constantinople
Byzantine emperors; to enhance commerce and control it, they issued trading permits
Jews, Venetians, Genoans
Byzantine emperor Constantine V will reconstruct the central army in 755
Tagmata
The Dynatoi
Wealthy land-owners who will dominate the senior levels of civil, military and ecclesiastic offices with in the empire
Where images of Christian figures were banned from art and architecture
Iconoclasm
The Al-Andalus dynasty…. This will create a flourishing and stable kingdom
Will grant religious freedom to its Christian and Jewish inhabitants and allows them to live in accordance to their own laws.
The Abbasids move their capital from Damascus to baghdad
for its prosperous location near trade routes
Abbasids enter a period of decline
due to their inability to raise sufficient tax revenue to support the massive army and large civil service administering the empire
Despite the multitude of ethnic groups within the Muslim world the arabic language provided a uniform as
it was the language of the quran commerce, and government throughout Islamic lands.
Wealthy Muslims established and endowed schools for higher learning
Madrasa
Al-Khwarizimi 780-850 wrote a book on Algebra
Introduced the zero, the modern number system; Arabic numerals
donation of Pepin; Papal states until 1870
Christianity in Italy was tied primarily to the European west and not the Byzantine East
Establishment of a partnership between his Frankish kingdom and the church; Charlemagne created an empire that was based on the development between three elements
The Roman passed, the Germanic way of life, and the legacy of Christianity
to achieve this Charlemagne…
- He forced baptism on pagans, like the Saxons rather than voluntary conversion
- Palentine Chapel
- Charlemaine had the pope escorted back to Rome
