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Period: 200 to 599
Germanic Invasions
Ostrogoths - Italy
Visigoths - Iberian Peninsula
Suebi - North West of Hispania
Franks - France
Angels, Sexeors, Jutes - Uk -
329
Byzantine Art
Mosaics
Pintures
Icons
Sculptures -
Period: 330 to 1453
The Byzantine Empire
Resisted to the germanic invasions and lasted for a 400 years.
Empereoror - Justinian and his wife Teodora
Lenguaje - Greele
Conquest - Mediterranean
Art - Mosaics
Religion - Ostrogoths
Falling - Ottoman (1453) -
331
Political Organisation of the Byzantine empire
Absolute power (centralised) = Executive, Legislative, Judicial Division of power (descentralised) -
331
The Byzantine Empire economy
The main economic activity was agriculture,
the cities were aldo important economic centres.
Craftwork was the main activity.
The trade was very important to change objets. -
331
Byzantine society
The basileus was the most powerful group, below was the high clary and nobility group.
Next the artesians, traders, soldiers and free farmers group.
The sleaves and serfs was the least powerful group -
331
Byzantine culture
Was the one of the most important cultural centres in the mediterranean because it was the crossroads between the Christian and the muslim world.
It conserved the roman empire legacy and lifestyle.
He also revised and reorganised Roman Law in the Codex Justinianus.
Byzantine adopted Hallenic culure, the emperor became the Basileus and Greek became the official lenguaje. -
476
The falling of the Roman Empire
By barbarians -
Period: 500 to 1000
Other invasions
Sleaves
Magyars
Muslims
Vikings -
507
Battle of Vovillé
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610
Mahoma
Recibe the menssaje from Angel Gabriel -
Period: 610 to 1492
The birth od Islam
The Islam is originated in Arabian Peninsula.
They was politheistic, nomadic, trives
Livestock, trade of luxury: ( Asia- Europe)
Control of trade route and oases.
Common: Arabic (lenguaje), Meca (secret city), kaaba -
611
Muslim religion
Pillar---------------------------------------------------
Bief in Alah and Mahoma.
Pray x5 faring Mecca.
Charity.
Fasting during Ramadan.
Once in life they have pilgrimage to Mecca.
Rules--------------------------------------------------
No alcohol.
no gainbling.
Np pork.
No pictures of Alah and Mahoma. -
611
Muslim economy
Were experts in livestock farmers.
Agriculture: was less important on the Arabian Peninsula because only the oases and costals regions were fertile.
They devepment the agricultural irrigation system, water wheel and dykes.
Introduce new techniques for preserving food, such as pickling with oil and vinegar.
They included: rice, cotton, sugar cane and citrus fruits, as well as vegetables. -
611
Muslim society
Were divided in two: muslins and non muslims. Muslims =
Caliphs
Arabs: nobles and landwners
Berbers and syrians: Soldiers Non muslims=
Jew, christians.
Sleaves. -
618
Mahoma
Began to prey -
622
Mahoma
Hegira= The free of Mahoma from Meca to Medina + beginning of muslim calendar -
Period: 632 to 661
Orthodox
Four caliphs= Mahoma's family.
Expansion= Egypt, Syrie, Palestine, and Mesopotamia. -
Period: 661 to 750
Umayyad
Capital= Damascus.
Emirated= Provinces= Gobernor.
Expansion= Iberian Peninsula and India. -
750
Political organisation of caliphate
Vizers: Were in the chanrge of the tax collection and the goverment.
Emirs: Governed the provinces of the empire.
Quadis: administered justice.
Diwans: collected taxes -
Period: 750 to 1250
Abbasaid
Capital= Bagdad
Al- Andalus : Abderraman 1 = Political indepent. emirate of Cordoba. -
929
Crisis
The empire was divided in new caliphate (Cordoba and Egypt 929) New kingdom appeared Turks = Sultanate -
1054
The Great Schism
Division of the Church ( Catholics and Ortrhodox) -
1250
Muslims Factors
Muslims diplomacy:
high taxes
They were seen as liberators
Tolerance
Promoted conversion to islam Decline of close empire:
byzantine and persians Sihad -
1453
Conquest of constantinople