AP WH Unit 3 AN AGE OF ACCELERATING CONNECTIONS 500–1500 The Worlds of European Christendom Connected and Divided‚ 500–1300 Chapter Learning Objectives • To examine European society after the breakup of the Roman Empire • To compare the diverse legacies of Rome in Western Europe and the Byzantine Empire • To explore medieval European expansion • To present the backwardness of medieval Europe relative to other civilizations‚ and the steps by which it caught up Key Terms Aristotle and classical
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The differences between USSR and the West can be divided into two groups; one is from the political point of view‚ and the other can be the difference in economic system on both sides. After the Bolshevik Revolution‚ under the rule of Lenin‚ the first socialist country was created‚ the USSR. The idea of socialism was developed through Marxist-Leninist theory‚ which is the building of the material base for communist under the dictatorship of the proletariat. Under the theory of socialism in USSR
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history in Southern Azerbaijan as the Azeri language at that time was not ofÞcially recognized nor publication ofÞcially allowed in Iran. Intellectual exchange with Northern Azerbaijanis was severed as Soviet policy had imposed a new unfamiliar alphabet--Cyrillic--on the language which had united them before. In fact‚ though the original work was published in Arabic script in two parts (Tabriz: 1954 and 1966)‚ its inþuence is still strongly felt. In 1991‚ a symphonic work was composed in Iran entitled
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WHAP Cultural Heavyweights Dar Al-Islam and The Byzantine Empire. The Muslim World and The Byzantine Empire were two of the most powerful and most-linked-together civilizations during the Middle Ages due mostly to their cultural achievements‚ religious values‚ and economic activities. The Byzantine Empire and Muslim World had very similar and different cultural achievements due to their very unique styles but also sharing each other’s ideas as well. The Muslim world’s
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addition‚ there were also major cultural differences between Western Europeans and Russians. Thus‚ Russia was neither geographically nor culturally European. They practiced a different kind of Christianity‚ wore different clothes and wrote in the Cyrillic alphabet. By the time of Peter the Great in the late seventeenth century‚ Russia had done little to keep up with the modernizing European continent; both technologically and culturally‚ it fell centuries behind. Its Orthodox clergy controlled education
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provides a clue to the human geography of Yugoslavia. Yugoslavia contains twenty- four million. But they are divided among twenty- four ethnic groups and three religions--- Roman Catholicism‚ Eastern Orthodoxy‚ and Islam. Both the Latin and Cyrillic alphabets are used in Yugoslavia‚ which is composed of six republics. These republics: Serbia‚ Croatia‚ Slovenia‚ Montenegro‚ Bosnia and Herzegovina‚ or Macedonia Yugoslavia’s physical geography is equally varied. To the north stretches the Danube River
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its grammatical structure. The preservation of language has often been tied to the influence of various religious institutions. Some examples are Western Christianity’s propagation of Latin‚ usage of the Hebrew alphabet by Judaism‚ Arabic alphabet by Islam‚ Greek and Cyrillic alphabets by Eastern Orthodoxy among many others (Diringer‚ 1947). In the eighteen century‚ as
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WHAP Midterm Study Guide Vocabulary: 1. Sedentary- farming system in which the farmer remains settled in one place 2. Differentiated- to distinguish from other thing; to change or alter 3. Foraging- the acquisition of food by hunting‚ fishing‚ or the gathering of plant matter 4. Stratification- division of society according to rank‚ caste‚ or class 5. Egalitarian- Of‚ relating to‚ or believing in the principle that all people are equal and deserve equal rights and opportunities
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collaboration with the Nazis. In reality‚ other populations had been removed from Crimea too‚ including Greeks and Bulgarians‚ and many Russians had moved in during the Russian Empire. The deportation‚ along with such policies as imposing the Cyrillic alphabet‚ had the effect of ‘Russification’ of the peninsula The peninsula had been ruled by Russia for centuries when Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev suddenly gifted it to to his native land Ukraine in 1954. Many Russians think Khrushchev was drunk
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Byzantine Period -Western Roman Empire falls in 476AD. -Roman Emperor moved the capital to Byzantium and renamed it Constantinople. -Constantinople was advantageous to Rome in that it could deal with barbarians‚ was a huge trading port‚ and it made protecting the eastern front easier. Justinian -In 527 Justinian became emperor through his uncle. -He sent his general Belisarius to reclaim the land lost to the west -Belisarius took North Africa from the Vandals‚ and Rome from the
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