The Worlds Of Christendom Flashcards
The Byzantine Empire was one of the most
Sophisticated and powerful Christan empire
While civilizations were contracted in Western Europe as the Roman Empire collapsed by 1200…
A civilization combines the Greco-Roman-Christan past with the Germanic and Celtic people
Byzantium was a continutation of
The Roman Empire
The Byzantium sought to preserve thr
Legacy of classical Greco-Roman civilization
Constantinople
Capital of Byzantium
Emperor claimed to be the
Sole rule of the world and it had a very centralized government
Caesaropapism
A political-religious system In where the secular ruler is also head of the religious establishment, as in the Byzantine Empire
The emperor treated church as a
Government
Eastern Orthodox Christianity legitimated that the ruler was the
God anointed ruler
The Roman church and the Eastern Orthodox Christianity claimed each other to be not
Genuine Christian
The Crusades is an attack by the
Catholic pope against forces of Islam (1095)
Orthodox Christianity spread to (what city)
Rus in 1200
Rus is a society of
Slaves,Freemen, Privileged people,commoners,dominant men, and subordinate women
Price Vladimir of Kiev affiliated with the Eastern Orthodox faith because of
Trying to unify the diverse people of his region while linking Rus into wider networks of communication and exchange
Rus borrowed many things from Byzantine as they took
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
The Byzantine area weaken by Catholic Crusaders and Turkic Muslim invaders so the end came in
1453 when the Ottoman Empire took hold of Constantinople
Western Christianson
West Christianity
Western Europe made the political unity
Difficult
Moderate climate, plentiful rainfall, and fertile soils made
Support for a population
In the 8th-10th century the Europe
Was very fragmented and decentralized known as feudalism
Feudalism
Serfs worked for nobles who gave them protection and land in return
In constant competition with others the lesser lords the knights swore
Allegiance to the greater lords or kings and received lands and plunder in return for military service
Serfs
Allowed to live with family, have a small farm, and protection in return of service
Europea multi centered political system shaped the emerging
Civilization but caused death, destruction, and disruption to many communities
European elite society values was much more
Militarized than China
Europeans in the 1450 was the first to use gunpowder for
Cannons
1500 Europe had the
Most advanced arsenal in the world
Europe mastered the sea by using
Magnetic compass from China and the Mediterranean lateen sails
Roman Catholic Church was one organization that stretched
To all of Western Europe
Church authorities often competed with each other but they enfoce
Reinforce rules
Wealthy merchants exercised
Local power and enforce their own laws and appoint own officials
The High Middle Ages (1000-1300) (eco) allowed for
Accelerated tempo of the economic and social change which led to population growth
Europeans (tech) made the
Wheeled plow that can handle the dense soils of Northern Europe and also used horses than oxen
Europeans for farming created the
Three-field system of crop rotation which allowed for more land to be planted at any one time
Instead of animal/human energy they used…
Cranks, Flywheels, camshafts, complex gearing mechanisms with windmills and water mills
Water mills+ Windmills provided energy for
Grinding grain, Sieving flour, tanning hides, making beer, making paper, and sawing wood
Europe women had jobs that include
Weaving, brewing, milling grain, midwifery, small retailing and laundering
Crusaders were to swear a
Vow and in return removed the penalties for any confessed sins
The most famous crusades were those aimed at
Wresting Jerusalem and the holy places associated with the life of Jesus from Islamic control
Crusading had little effect because of
Europeans power not being strong or long lasting to induce much conversion
Small European footholds (crusading) came under control by
1300 by Muslim control
European came in contact with the Islamic world and here they
Learned how to produce sugar on plantations using slave labor.
After 1000 in the west Europeans developed
A legal system that provided a measure of independence for towns, cities, guides, and so on
Scholars which are Europeans began to seek out
Og texts from Greek texts especially from Aristotle
Greek - _________ - __________ text translation
Arabic to Latin
Aristotle text become the basis of university of
Western Europe
