The Middle Age

The Middle Age

1. Characteristics

   • Politic
     • Monarch depend in nobles
     • Monarch power increase
     • Christians began the crusades
   • Economic
     • Internal conflicts
     • Trade
     • Agriculture
     • Live rural areas
   • Social
     • Insecurity
     • Nobles protect peasants
     • Peasants became serfs
       • Serfs work to Lord
       • Lived in villages
     • Lesser nobles became vassals
     • Feudal society
   • Culture
     • Christianity
     • Population illiterate
       • Only Religious authoritis know
     • Styles
       • Romanesque
       • Gothic
       • Renaissance

2. Invasions

   • Germanic Tribes
     • Franks-France
       • Carolingian Empire
         • Origins
           • Prime minister
             • Major-domo
               • Pippin I the Younger
             • Create problem
               • New rule
                 • Carolingian dynasty
           • Wars
             • Lombard invasions
               • Pippin and Charles help
         • Political Structure
           • Emperor live Palace
           • Marquis
           • Duke
         • Economy
           • Agriculture only source
           • Large States
           • Latifundia
           • Majority peasants
         • Culture
           • Scribes
             • Carolingian minuscule
               • Caronlingian Renaissance
             • Miniatures
           • Style
             • Carolingian
               • Semi-circular arches
               • Stone and brick walls
     • Vandals- North Africa
     • Ostrogoths- Italian Peninsula
     • Angles and Saxons- Great Britain
     • Suebis- North Portugal
     • Visigoths-Spain
     • Tribes
       • Kingdom
     • Economy
       • Arable
       • Livestock farming
     • Society
       • Become Christians
       • Structure
         • Monarch
         • Germanic Nobility
         • Peasantry

3. Byzantine Empire

   • Origins
     • Theodosius
       • Honorio
         • Byzantine
           • Byzantium
             • Constantinople
               • Bosphorus Strait
               • Largest City
               • Between (Black Sea and Mediterranenan)
           • Justinian the Great
             • General Belisarius
               • Conquered Italy
               • Conquered North Africa
             • Legal code
           • Political Structure
             • Basileus
             • Officials
             • Mercenaries
             • Stratego
       • Arcadio
   • Economy
     • Livestock
     • Latifundia
     • Trade
       • Craftmanship
       • Manufactured products
   • Culture
     • Great culture
       • Developed
         • Greek
         • Roman
     • Language
       • Greek
         • Latin