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Title: Ancient Civilizations


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AncientCivilizations
  • Emerging Europe and
  • The Byzantine Empire

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Germanic Kingdoms
  • Germanic people began moving into Rome in the 3rd
    century
  • Visigoths occupied Spain Italy until the
    Ostrogoths took control of Italy in the 5th
    century
  • By 500 Western Roman empire had became of
    states ruled by German kings
  • Germanic Angles Saxons Anglo-Saxons moved
    into Britain in 5th century
  • Clovis-Christian convert, established Frankish
    kingdom -500

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Germanic Kingdoms
  • Clovis converted to Christianity after calling
    for Jesus help during battle the enemy fled
    after the plea
  • Clovis gained support of the Roman Catholic
    Church
  • By 510, Clovis established Frankish kingdom from
    Pyrenees to present day Germany
  • After Clovis death, his sons divided the kingdom
  • Germans Romans intermarried German customs
    had an important role
  • Extended family was center of society

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Clovis
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Germanic Kingdoms
  • Extended families in German society worked
    together defended each other during violent
    times
  • Germanic law was personal, one injuring another
    led to a savage blood feuds
  • Wergild (money for a man) system was developed to
    avoid bloodshed after crimes such as murder/
    wrongdoer paid the injured partys family a set
    amount of money which varied by social status

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Role of the Church
  • Christianity became main religion of Roman empire
    by 4th century
  • Roman church developed a system of organization
  • Priests was head of parishes local communities
  • Bishop was head of diocese - a group of parishes
    or bishopric
  • Archbishop head of groups of diocese
  • Bishop of Rome became known as Pope the head of
    what is now known as the Roman Catholic Church

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Pope
Patriarch
Archdiocese/Archbishop
Bishop/Diocese
Gregory I
Priest/Parish
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Roman Catholic Church
  • Pope claim was based on the belief that Jesus
    gave Peter the keys to Heaven
  • Peter was considered to be the chief apostle
    the first bishop of Rome
  • Bishops who succeeded Peter were called popes
    Latin word for papa father
  • Western Christians accepted the pope as the
    churchs leader, but could not agree on the
    popes powers
  • Gregory I strengthened power by taking political
    control of Rome surrounding territories

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Gregory I
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Role of Church
  • Gregory pope from 590-604, extended papal
    authority over the Western Church actively
    converted non-Christians
  • Monk man who separates himself from the rest of
    the world to become closer to God/ Monasticism is
    the practice of living like a monk
  • Saint Benedict founded an order of Monks wrote
    rules for their practice
  • Benedicts rules divided the day into activities
    emphasizing prayer physical labor to keep monks
    busy

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Role of Church
  • Monks meditated read privately/ They prayed
    together seven times a day
  • All aspects of Benedict life was communal
  • Abbot (father) ruled each Benedictine monastery
  • Monks were to obey the Abbot/ took a vowel of
    poverty/monks dedication made then new heroes of
    Christian civilization/ were social workers in
    communities
  • Monks spread Christianity throughout Europe/Irish
    English monks were enthusiastic missionaries

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Role of Church
  • Nuns women who withdrew from the world to
    dedicate themselves to God
  • Nuns lived in convents headed abbesses
  • Abess Hilda founded a monastery in Whitby in 657
    where she educated five future bishops

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St. Benedict
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Roles
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Nuns Monks
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Charlemagne
  • 600 700s, Frankish kings lost their power to
    the chief officers of the kings household
    mayors of the palace
  • Pepin assumed the kingship
  • Pepins son became king after his death in 768
    son was Charles the Great Charlemagne
  • Charlemagne one of historys great kings/
    curious, driven, intelligent, strong warrior,
    devout Christian/ was illiterate, but strongly
    supported learning
  • Ruled from 768 to 814/ Expanded the Frankish
    kingdom into Carolingian empire covered much of
    western central Europe

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Charlemagne
  • Charlemagne established missi dominci (messengers
    of the lord king) two men who were sent to make
    for sure the kings wishes were followed
  • 800, he was crowned emperor of the Romans/ the
    coronation symbolized the coming together of the
    Roman, Christian, Germanic elements that forged
    European civilization
  • Carolingian Renaissance was promoted by
    Charlemagne desire to promote learning
  • Benedictine monks played important role in
    revival of learning

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Early Weapons of Mass Destruction
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Fall of Carolingian empire
  • Charlemagne died in 814/ by 844 Carolingian
    empire divided into 3 kingdoms by grandsons
  • Muslims invaded southern France
  • Magyars settled on the plains of Hungary
  • Vikings (Norsemen of Scandinavia) attacked the
    empire
  • Vikings were superb warriors shipbuilders/
    famed dragon ships carrying about 50 men could go
    shallow rivers to attack inland
  • 9th century, Vikings settled in Europe
  • 911, Frankish king gave Vikings land of Normandy

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Feudalism
  • Invaders posed a threat to the safety of the
    people due to decentralized government
  • People began to turn landed aristocrats or nobles
    for protection/ led to feudalism
  • Feudalism arose between 800-900/ similar system
    in Japan- Samurai
  • Vassalage center of feudalism/ came from
    Germanic society where warriors swore oath to
    their leader
  • Vassal man who served a lord militarily

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Feudalism Military Service for Land

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Feudalism
  • Knights heavily armored warriors
  • Male armor made of metal links or plates
  • Frankish army initially set up foot soldiers in
    mail
  • Heavily armored knights dominated warfare for
    over 500 years
  • Knights had great prestige formed much of
    European aristocracy
  • Early Middle Ages (500-1000) wealth was based on
    owning land/very little trade
  • Nobles gave a piece of land to vassals in
    exchange for fighting fief

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Feudalism
  • Vassals had political authority in their fief/in
    charge of keeping order
  • Feudalism became complicated kings had vassals
    who had vassals
  • Feudal contract unwritten rules that
    characterized feudalism/relationship between king
    vassal/knights for about 40-60 days a year
  • Vassals were to advise the lord, financial
    obligations to the lord, knighting of his eldest
    son,
  • Lord supported the vassal with land grant
    protection in military court

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Feudal Obligations
  • Vassals
  • Military service for 40-60 days.
  • Homage.
  • Serve on the lords court.
  • Gifts for weddings and knighthoods.
  • Ransom.
  • Lords
  • Protection.
  • Justice.
  • Wardship oversee personal affairs and family if
    vassal dies in service.

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Page, Squire, Knight
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Joust
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Feudalism
  • Castles permanent residences fortresses/s
    increased in high middle ages(1000-1300)
  • Middle Ages nobles dominated European society/
    main concern was warfare
  • Nobles kings, dukes, counts, barons, bishops,
    archbishops
  • Knighthood united lords knights in
    aristocracy
  • Knights trained as warriors/ no adult
    responsibility
  • Young knights held tournaments to show their
    skills/ joust became main attraction

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Feudalism
  • 11th 12th century, under influence of Church-
    chivalry became important to knights
  • Chivalry civilized behavior, knights were to
    defend the church defenseless people, treat
    captives as honored guests, fight for glory not
    rewards
  • Women could own property, but were under control
    of men/ first their fathers, then their husbands
  • Lady of the castle in charge of household
    estate
  • Eleanor of Aquitane married to king Louis VII
    of France Henry II of England/ 2 children
    became kings of England

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Eleanor
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Alfred the Great Unified The Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy
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England
  • King Alfred the Great united the various kingdoms
    of England that had been ruled by Anglo-Saxon
    kings
  • Angles, Saxons, Germanic people were united

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Norman Conquest
  • 10/4/1066, William of Normandy defeated King
    Harold of England at the battle of Hastings
  • William was then crowned King of England
  • Norman knights received land as a fief and swore
    allegiance to the king
  • Marriage of French Anglo-Saxons led to a new
    English culture
  • Normans adopted Anglo-Saxon institutions office
    of sheriff, census called Domesday Book
  • William further developed taxation royal courts

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William I, the Conqueror Brought Norman Feudalism
To England
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Henry II
  • Henry II enlarged English monarchy
  • Expanded the power of the royal courts kings
    power/increased of criminal cases tried on the
    kings court
  • Common law replaced law codes across the kingdom
  • Tried to control Church but failed
  • Thomas Beckett, archbishop of Canterbury said
    only Roman Catholic Church could try clergy
  • Four knights murdered Beckett, Henry was outraged
    backed down

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Magna Carta
  • English nobles resented the growth of the kings
    power/ rebellion was raised against King John
  • 1215, King John was forced to put his seal on the
    Magna Carta
  • Magna Carta feudal document, written
    recognition that the power of the king was
    limited
  • 13th century, under Edward I English parliament
    emerged
  • Parliament 2 knights from every county, 2
    people from every town, and all the bishops
    nobles throughout England

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John Was Forced To Sign the Magna Carta in 1215
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English Parliament
  • Eventually 2 houses were formed
  • Nobles church lords formed House of the Lords
  • Knights townspeoples House of Commons
  • Parliaments granted taxes passed laws

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Edward I Called a Parliament Of Lords and Commons
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French Kingdom
  • Kingdom of France was 1/3 of the former
    Carolingian empire
  • Hugh Capet was chosen to be king by west Frankish
    nobles establishing the Capetian dynasty
  • Capetians had little power only controlled the
    land around Paris/ Dukes had more power than
    kings
  • Phillip II of Augustus was the turning point in
    the French monarchy
  • Phillip waged war against England gained
    control of the Normandy, Maine, Anjou, Aquitaine

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French Kingdom
  • Phillip II successors continued to add land to
    the Kingdom
  • 13th century, Louis IX ruled/ deeply religious
    man who later made a saint by the Catholic
    church/Known for his attempts bring justice to
    his people
  • Phillip IV, Phillip the Fair, effective in
    strengthening the French monarchy expanding the
    royal bureaucracy
  • Phillip IV started a French parliament/Estates
    General

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Louis IX
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Philip IV Called the Estates- General to Raise
Taxes
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Holy Roman Empire
  • German kings attempted to rule both German
    Italian lands but struggled to do so
  • Fredericks attempt to conquer northern Italy
    caused problems
  • Pope opposed him fearing that he wanted to
    include Rome the papal states
  • Northern Italian cities did not want to be his
    subjects
  • Alliance of Italian cities pope defeated
    Frederick I in 1176
  • Frederick II also waged a war against the pope
    northern cities lost

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Otto I
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East Central Europe
  • Slavic people divided into 3 groups western,
    eastern, southern Slavs
  • Western Slavs formed the Polish Bohemian
    kingdoms
  • Poles, Czechs, Hungarians were all converted to
    Christianity by German Monks
  • Eastern Slavic people were converted to Orthodox
    Christianity by two Byzantine missionary
    brothers Cyril Methodius
  • Croats, Serbs, Bulgarians were converted to
    Eastern Orthodoxy

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St. Cyril and St. Methodius
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Russia
  • Eastern Slavic people settled in present day
    Ukraine Russia
  • 8th century, Swedish Vikings began to move in
    search of plunder trade routes
  • Vikings eventually dominated the native people
  • Vikings named it Rus where word Russia is
    derived

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Kievan Rus
  • Oleg, Viking leader, settled in Kiev at the
    beginning of 10th century created principality
    of Kiev
  • Oleg successors expanded Kiev until it reached
    territory between Baltic Black Seas, Danube
    Volga rivers
  • Vikings married Slavic wives gradually
    assimilated into the Slavic population
  • Rus leader, Vladimir, married sister of Byzantine
    Emperor officially accepted the Eastern
    Orthodox Church for all the people in 988
  • Kievan Rus prospered up until invasions brought
    an end to the 1st Russian state in 1169

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Oleg
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Vladimir I Chose Eastern Orthodoxy
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Mongol Rule in Russia
  • 13th century, Mongols conquered Russia forced
    Russian princes to pay tribute to them
  • Alexander Nevsky, prince of Novgorood, defeated a
    German army in northwest Russia in 1242
  • Khan, leader of Mongolia, rewarded Nevsky title
    of grand prince
  • Nevsky descendants became princes of Moscow
    eventual leaders of Russia

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Alexander Nevsky, Prince Of Novgorod
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Thanksgiving Kitty
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Reign of Justinian
  • 5th century, Eastern Roman empire was centered
    around Constantinople
  • Justinian became emperor in 527/ determined to
    reestablish the Roman empire in the
    Mediterranean/ reached his goals by 552
  • 3 years after Justinians death, the Lombards
    conquered Italy most of the area that Justinian
    had controlled
  • Justinian created the Body of Civil Law code of
    Roman laws that was the basis of imperial law in
    Eastern Roman empire until its end in 1453

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Constantinople
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Emperor Justinian
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Beginning of Byzantine Empire
  • Justinians conquest left Eastern Roman empire
    with too much land to protect far from
    Constantinople
  • Arab Muslims were the biggest threat to Eastern
    Roman Empire
  • Islamic forces defeated an army of Eastern Roman
    at Yarmuk in 636 lost Syria Palestine
  • 679, Bulgars defeated the Eastern Roman empire
    took possession of the lower Danube Valley
  • 8th century, Eastern Roman empire was much
    smaller (Asia minor eastern Balkans)

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Byzantine Empire
  • Both a Greek Christian state
  • Greek replaced Latin as the official language
  • Christian church became known as Eastern Orthodox
    Church
  • Byzantine emperor controlled the church the
    state
  • Emperor appointed the head of the church
  • Government religious officials were all bound
    together in the service of a spiritual ideal

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Life in Constantinople
  • Largest city in Europe in the Middle Ages
  • Based on trade until the 12th century/ Europes
    greatest center of Commerce
  • During Justinians reign, silkworms were smuggled
    from China to begin a silk industry
  • Hagia Sophia church of Holy Wisdom
  • Hippodrome arena where gladiator fights
    chariot races were held

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Byzantine Empire
  • Macedonians ruled the Byzantine Empire from
    876-1081
  • Macedonians expanded the empire
  • Expanded trade relations w/ Western Europe
  • Late 11th century lot of political social
    disorder

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EOC Catholic Split
  • Eastern Orthodox Church did not accept the popes
    claim as head of Church
  • 1054, Pope Leo IX Michael Cerularius (Head of
    Byzantine Church) excommunicated each other
  • Great Schism seperation between two great
    branches of Christianity

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Byzantine Art Mosaics and Illuminated Manuscripts
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Hagia Sophia
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What a Bunch of Turkeys
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Crusades
  • 11th 13th centuries, European Christians
    carried out a series of military expeditions to
    take back the holy land from the Muslims
  • Seljuk Turks won the battle of Manzikert
    threatened Constantinople
  • Crusades began when Pope Urban II responded to
    the request of Alexius I to liberate Jerusalem
    Palestine
  • Urban II called for crusades _at_ infidels
  • Infidels were the non believers Muslims, Jews

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Alexius I Asked For Help and Urban II Called For
the First Crusade
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First Crusades
  • Mostly French knights captured Antioch in 1098
    Jerusalem in 1099
  • Massacred Muslim Jewish inhabitants
  • 4 Latin Crusader states were established that
    lasted 100 years
  • 1120s, Muslims began to strike back which led to
    another Crusade

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2nd Crusade
  • The fall of a Latin Kingdom led to the call of
    another crusade
  • Saint Bernard of Clairvaux called for the crusade
    got the support of King Louis VII of France
    Conrad III of Germany
  • 2nd Crusade was a total failure
  • 1187, Jerusalem fell to Saladin
  • 3 important rulers then agreed to begin a third
    Crusade

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Louis VII and Conrad III Respond To Bernard of
Clairvauxs Call For a Second Crusade
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Saladins Capture of Jerusalem Sparked the Third
Crusade
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3rd Crusade
  • Frederick Barbarossa of Germany, Richard I
    (Richard the Lionhearted) of England, Phillip II
    of Augustus of France
  • Members of the 3rd arrived in the East by 1189
    encountered problems
  • Barbarossa drowned while swimming in a river
  • English French had success with their naval
    fleets against coastal cities, but failed as they
    moved inland
  • Richard I negotiated a settlement with Saladin to
    allow Christian pilgrims free access to Jerusalem

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Philip II, Frederick I And Richard I Responded
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4th Crusade
  • 6 years after the death of Saladin in 1193, Pope
    Innocent III initiated the 4th crusade
  • On their way to the East became involved a
    conflict with the Byzantine Empire over the
    succession to the Byzantine throne
  • Crusaders diverted to Constantinople sacked the
    city in 1204/ Byzantine empire was reestablished
    in 1261 but was never as powerful
  • Ottoman Turks eventually conquered Byzantine 190
    years later

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Osman Founder Of the Ottoman Turks
Sultan Mahmet II Conqueror of Constantinople
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Results of the Crusades
  • Increased wealth of Italian city-states like
    Genoa and Venice.
  • Began Jewish persecution and genocide.
  • Started the breakdown of feudalism and an
    increase in the power of kings.
  • Improved technology such as better ships and
    maps, and skills in siege techniques and weapons.

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Crusading Kitty
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