Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The Middle Ages
- period of history
- early middle ages
- high middle ages
- late middle ages
- An era of invasions
- germanic people
- slavs and mgyars
- norsmen or vikings
- for the north and muslims for the south
- landowning nobles
- The Byzantine Empire
- mosaics and icons
- basilicas
- Justinian the Great.
- Byzantine art
- landowning nobles
- emperor
- The Carolingian Empire
- Charlemagne
- emperor
- counties, marches and duchies.
- copies of ancient books
- miniatures
- Islam and the caliphate
- Muhammad founded Islam in Arabia.
- caliphs
- viziers, emirs and the qadis or judges.
- The economy was based on livestock and agriculture
- the use of irrigation techniques
- crops from Asia became
- Trade developed greatly and became the main source of wealth.
- Muslim cities
- Society was divided into Muslims and non-Muslims
- Muslim culture were the Arabic language
- religion and customs
- The holy book of Islam is the Koran
- Decorative design is very important in Muslim art
- They used calligraphy, arabesque or foliate ornaments and lattice work