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The Early Middle Ages
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Un mapa mental en inglés acerca de las Civilizaciones de la Alta Edad Media
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The Early Middle Ages
Germanic migrations
Decline of de Roman Empire
Germanic tribes north of the Roman Empire
Military weakness led Germanic migrations
Theodosius divided the empire in two parts (two sons)
Western Roman Empire
Eastern Roman Empire
Dangerous travel, little long-distance trade
Cities declined, people moved to countryside
Cultural activity also declined
Romans and Germanic peoples had
laws
customs
religions
Christians and spoke Latin
Germanic kingdoms
Franks-France
Visigoths -Spain
Ostrogoths<Lombards-Italy
Angles and Saxons-Britain
Visigoths
Entered in the Roman Empire to escape from the Huns
King Leovigild:
Expanded their territories
Made new laws
His son Reccared became Catholic and his kingdom too
Continual fighting between the nobles and the kings
This kingdom dissapear with the Muslim invasion
711
Honorius ask for help to the Visigoths to expel other Germanic kingdoms
Suevi
Vandals
Alans
In exchange they would receive lands of France (Gaul)
The Franks expelled them, they went to the Iberian Peninsula and made Toledo its capital
Byzantine Empire
Byzantine Empire
East richer than West
Constanticople was its capital
A slow decline
After Justinian´s death, the Byzantine Empire started losing territories
Lombards conquered parts of Italy
Visigoths expelled them from the Iberian Peninsula
Constantinople remained
Turks conquered them
End of Middle Ages
Justinian
The most important emperor
He ruled with his wife Theodora
He tried to rebuild the Roman Empire
Conquered many territories
Africa
Italy
Iberian Peninsula
Under Justinian
Justinian Code
Emperor/Basileus
Great power
Commanded
Army
Government
Religious leader
Tradition and religion
Greek replaced Latin
East-West Schiscm
Roman Catholic Church
Byzantine Orthodox Church
Religion affected culture
Emperors tried to prohibit worship to holy images or icons
Orthodoxy main form of Christianity
Rusia
Lithuania
Belarous
Bulgaria
Romania
Greece
Macedonia
Art
Churches had a Greek-Cross Plan and large domes
Hagia Sophia
Mosaics covered walls and ceilings
Islam
Muhammad
Islamic religion
The expansion of Islam
A brilliant civilization
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