Chapter 6(Africa) key concepts- *The varied enviroments of African regions had an important influence on the cultural and economic developments of societies. *Regional and long distance interactions among African societies and with outsiders helped create the cultural diversity that characterized the period * Various African societies played a major role in the larger networks of trade‚ including both the Trans- Saharan and Indian Ocean trade networks. * Islam’s spread to Africa had a significant
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Robert W. Strayer Ways of the World: A Brief Global History with Sources Second Edition Chapter 10 The Worlds of Christendom: Contraction‚ Expansion‚ and Division‚ 500–1300 Copyright © 2013 by Bedford/St. Martin’s I. Christian Contraction in Asia and Africa A. Asian Christianity 1. The challenge of Islam‚ yet many cases of tolerance: While Christianity had spread through much of North Africa and the Middle East‚ the unexpected rise of a new monotheistic faith meant the end of some Christian
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your essay. The Ottonian manuscript paintings were based on two artistic sources the Carolingian manuscripts and Byzantine manuscripts that were both religious and imperial image. The Ottonian manuscripts were mainly interested in the story telling of the stages of Jesus life. For example‚ figure 10.31Christ Blessing Emperor Otto II and Empress Theophano was mainly influenced by a byzantine work titled Christ Crowning Romans & Eudoka using a halo to identify Jesus showing the commemoration coronation
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make money‚ defend the Byzantine Empire from the Turks‚ opportunity to get new land in the Middle East and opening trade routes between Europe and Middle East. There were nine crusades fought by Christians against Muslims in the Middle East. The first crusade began in 1096‚ which were mostly thieves and criminals. This was the first successful crusade in taking Jerusalem. Pope Urban II wanted the Christians to go to war against the Muslims. So they can defend the Byzantine Empire against the Seljuk
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examples of religious leaders in the middle ages. Pope Urban II was the head of the Roman Catholic church from 1088 to 1099. He launched the Crusade movement‚ and strengthened the papacy as a political entity. “The push of the crusades came when the Byzantine emperor Alexius I asked the Europeans for help against… Muslims” (306). Urban II responded to this request. Which lead him to have a perfect opportunity to provide papal leadership. He rallied up all warriors of Europe for the
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Hellenistic Period (323-30 BCE) that embrace a range of emotions‚ providing us with an overpowering‚ multi-sensory experience as we view these pieces. The qualities and purpose of art during the Hellenistic Period were quite different from those of the Byzantine Era‚ to be further explored by comparing these two sculptures with the Justinian and Attendants mosaic from San Vitale in Ravenna‚ Italy. Through a formal analysis of these three works‚ the meaning‚ purpose and values of the culture that produced
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contradicting issue. One of the reasons which are occasionally cited for Urban’s calling of the First Crusade is the call of help which Alexins Comnenus had sent to Urban at the Council of Piacenza. This letter was sent in response to the loss of Byzantine land which had occurred after the battle of Manzikert in 1072. The letter When Urban received this letter it is debateable as to whether he was actually galvanised by the thought of helping Alexins or if his main motive was an attempt at ending the
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weapons. Both East Asia and the Middle East and Byzantium were similar in their use and development of projectile weapons. The Byzantine Empire developed a very powerful‚ projectile weapon called Greek fire. It was mainly used in naval warfare‚ and essentially could burn while floating on water for very extensive periods of time. This weapon was exclusive to the Byzantine people and has been lost with them. Gunpowder was also first developed in China. Gunpowder could be used to fuel the first guns
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region that never experienced political unity but adopted Christianity as the dominant source if cultural authority. The Byzantine Empire remained a political and economic powerhouse of the postclassical world. It was also an urbanized center of manufacturing and a highly productive society that both supported and benefited from trade throughout the eastern hemisphere. Both the Byzantine Empire and the European states to the west inherited
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Alex Hunt History 201 Thesis/ Introduction December 8‚ 2014 Byzantine Architecture “Early Byzantine architecture was built as a continuation of Roman architecture‚ Stylistic drift‚ technological advancement‚ and political and territorial changes meant that a distinct style gradually resulted in the Greek cross plan in church architecture” (Fletcher). The Byzantine Empire’s architecture were functional works of art that varied from the walls that fortified the city of Constantinople
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