The Worlds Of Christendom Flashcards

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The Byzantine Empire was one of the most

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Sophisticated and powerful Christan empire

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While civilizations were contracted in Western Europe as the Roman Empire collapsed by 1200…

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A civilization combines the Greco-Roman-Christan past with the Germanic and Celtic people

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Byzantium was a continutation of

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The Roman Empire

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The Byzantium sought to preserve thr

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Legacy of classical Greco-Roman civilization

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Constantinople

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Capital of Byzantium

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Emperor claimed to be the

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Sole rule of the world and it had a very centralized government

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Caesaropapism

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A political-religious system In where the secular ruler is also head of the religious establishment, as in the Byzantine Empire

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The emperor treated church as a

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Government

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Eastern Orthodox Christianity legitimated that the ruler was the

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God anointed ruler

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The Roman church and the Eastern Orthodox Christianity claimed each other to be not

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Genuine Christian

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The Crusades is an attack by the

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Catholic pope against forces of Islam (1095)

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Orthodox Christianity spread to (what city)

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Rus in 1200

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Rus is a society of

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Slaves,Freemen, Privileged people,commoners,dominant men, and subordinate women

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Price Vladimir of Kiev affiliated with the Eastern Orthodox faith because of

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Trying to unify the diverse people of his region while linking Rus into wider networks of communication and exchange

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Rus borrowed many things from Byzantine as they took

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The Byzantine architectural styles, the Cyrillic alphabet based on the Greek counterpart, use of religious images (icons), and political ideas of imperial control of the church

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The Byzantine area weaken by Catholic Crusaders and Turkic Muslim invaders so the end came in

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1453 when the Ottoman Empire took hold of Constantinople

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17
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Western Christianson

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West Christianity

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18
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Western Europe made the political unity

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Difficult

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Moderate climate, plentiful rainfall, and fertile soils made

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Support for a population

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In the 8th-10th century the Europe

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Was very fragmented and decentralized known as feudalism

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Feudalism

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Serfs worked for nobles who gave them protection and land in return

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In constant competition with others the lesser lords the knights swore

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Allegiance to the greater lords or kings and received lands and plunder in return for military service

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Serfs

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Allowed to live with family, have a small farm, and protection in return of service

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Europea multi centered political system shaped the emerging

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Civilization but caused death, destruction, and disruption to many communities

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European elite society values was much more
Militarized than China
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Europeans in the 1450 was the first to use gunpowder for
Cannons
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1500 Europe had the
Most advanced arsenal in the world
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Europe mastered the sea by using
Magnetic compass from China and the Mediterranean lateen sails
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Roman Catholic Church was one organization that stretched
To all of Western Europe
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Church authorities often competed with each other but they enfoce
Reinforce rules
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Wealthy merchants exercised
Local power and enforce their own laws and appoint own officials
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The High Middle Ages (1000-1300) (eco) allowed for
Accelerated tempo of the economic and social change which led to population growth
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Europeans (tech) made the
Wheeled plow that can handle the dense soils of Northern Europe and also used horses than oxen
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Europeans for farming created the
Three-field system of crop rotation which allowed for more land to be planted at any one time
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Instead of animal/human energy they used…
Cranks, Flywheels, camshafts, complex gearing mechanisms with windmills and water mills
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Water mills+ Windmills provided energy for
Grinding grain, Sieving flour, tanning hides, making beer, making paper, and sawing wood
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Europe women had jobs that include
Weaving, brewing, milling grain, midwifery, small retailing and laundering
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Crusaders were to swear a
Vow and in return removed the penalties for any confessed sins
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The most famous crusades were those aimed at
Wresting Jerusalem and the holy places associated with the life of Jesus from Islamic control
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Crusading had little effect because of
Europeans power not being strong or long lasting to induce much conversion
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Small European footholds (crusading) came under control by
1300 by Muslim control
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European came in contact with the Islamic world and here they
Learned how to produce sugar on plantations using slave labor.
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After 1000 in the west Europeans developed
A legal system that provided a measure of independence for towns, cities, guides, and so on
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Scholars which are Europeans began to seek out
Og texts from Greek texts especially from Aristotle
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Greek - _________ - __________ text translation
Arabic to Latin
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Aristotle text become the basis of university of
Western Europe