The Fragment Of The Ancient World Flashcards
When started the invasions in the Roman Empire?
5 th century the most important were the hunos
What started in the 5 th century?
A lot of invasions in the Roman Empire one of the most important were the Hunos.
Characteristics of the Germanic tribes:
No writing No laws No state Worked= farming They mixed the costums with the Roman ones and they became used Latin.
When the visigoths arrived to Hispania?
In 409
When the visigoths stablish a stable kingdom
554
In 554 what was capital?
Toledo
The visigoths in 554 were only …
150000 people but they they were aristocracy
Characteristics of the visigoths?
Strong monarchy: hereditary Aula regia Council of Toledo: make laws Control of the Iberian peninsula Legal and religious unification: 508: king reccared = christianism 654: king recessewhinth unified the laws into LIBER LUIDICIORUM
Visigothic art and culture
Mix HISPANO-ROMAN AND VISIGOTHIC CULTURE
The visigoths they built?
A lot of churches.
They worked with metal and gold.
The reasons why the people moved to the countryside in the third century?
1 germanic tribes’ attackers
2 economic problems
3 desire of living protected
Byzantine empire
Eastern Roman Empire
Capital Byzantine empire
Byzantium
Capital eastern Roman Empire
Constantinopla
What wanted the Justinian emperor?
Wanted to restore the Roman Empire
What conquered Justinian?
North Africa, south hispania and Italy.
To govern this territory he made a compilation of laws: Justinian code.
What pasó in the 7 th century in the Byzantine empire?
Crisis and territorial retreat
These retreat in the east caused in the culture.
HELLENISATION
Que paso in the 9 th 10 th century ?
Economic recovery second golden age.
The emperor in the Byzantine empire
Was called BASILEUS
Political and religious power.
Head of the new church: ORTHODOX
In the 11 th century in Byzantine empire?
Crisis= invasions by TURKS
THEY CONQUERED CONSTANTINOPLE IN 1453
Byzantine art and cultura
Mix GRECO-ROMAN AND EASTERN CULTURES
Mosaics
Icons
Carolingian empire:
Frankish kingdom occupied territories in France, Germany and Italy.
A Frankish nobleman (Charles Martel) stopped the Muslims in the battle of Poltiers. (732)
His son Pepin the younger became king of the Franks. His son, Charlemagne reunited the western Roman Empire.
Charlemagne conquered WESTERN EUROPE and convert to Christianism. Political and religious power.
In 800 the was crowned emperor by Pope Leo III
Capital Aachen.
Gobern CHARLEMAGNE?
Divided into 250 parts COUNTRY-COUNT
In borders, he divided in marcas ruled by a military comander “Marquis”.
To control counts and Marquis= Charlemagne named inspectors WISSI DOMINICI
The position = not hereditary
He united all people once a year.
How the personal loyalty?
Made a system based on loyalty and protection
People became vassals of the person who was up in the pirámid.
The end of the Carolingian empire:
Charlemagne died, his son Pious received the empire. He divided in 3 parts for his sons.
In 843 traty of Verdun was defeated by his brothers.
9 th century= invasions= vikings/muslins
The power of the counts increased and the kings power disappeared. FEUDALISM
In the emergence of the Islam people in Arabia lived?
Nomads caravans
Herders traders
In Arabia the most important city
Mecca
Islam
Polytheist
Sacred rock KAABA
Muhammad
He was raised by his uncle and had contact with Jews and Christians
He was chosen by Allalh to be a new prophet of the religion Islam
Persecuted. So from Mecca to Medina
The fight called Hijra
Muhammad destroyed Mecca and died in 632
ISLAM
Screw book KORAN: creed and religious obligations
Codes of behaviour: polygamy, authority of the father, no eating perk, no gambling
Leaders IMAMS
intérpretes of the Koran ULAMAS
Pillars of the Islam
1 only Allah is the unique god and MUHAMMAD THE PROPHET 2 pay 5 times a day Mecca. Friday sacred 3 cribbing to charity 4not eat in Ramadan 5 pilgrimage to Mecca once in your life
