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
  1. Germanic migrations
    1. Decline of de Roman Empire
      1. Germanic tribes north of the Roman Empire
        1. Military weakness led Germanic migrations
          1. Theodosius divided the empire in two parts (two sons)
            1. Western Roman Empire
              1. Eastern Roman Empire
              2. Dangerous travel, little long-distance trade
                1. Cities declined, people moved to countryside
                  1. Cultural activity also declined
                    1. Romans and Germanic peoples had
                      1. laws
                        1. customs
                          1. religions
                          2. Christians and spoke Latin
                          3. Germanic kingdoms
                            1. Franks-France
                              1. Visigoths -Spain
                                1. Ostrogoths<Lombards-Italy
                                  1. Angles and Saxons-Britain
                                2. Visigoths
                                  1. Entered in the Roman Empire to escape from the Huns
                                    1. King Leovigild:
                                      1. Expanded their territories
                                        1. Made new laws
                                          1. His son Reccared became Catholic and his kingdom too
                                          2. Continual fighting between the nobles and the kings
                                            1. This kingdom dissapear with the Muslim invasion
                                              1. 711
                                              2. Honorius ask for help to the Visigoths to expel other Germanic kingdoms
                                                1. Suevi
                                                  1. Vandals
                                                    1. Alans
                                                      1. In exchange they would receive lands of France (Gaul)
                                                        1. The Franks expelled them, they went to the Iberian Peninsula and made Toledo its capital
                                                    2. Byzantine Empire
                                                      1. Byzantine Empire
                                                        1. East richer than West
                                                          1. Constanticople was its capital
                                                          2. A slow decline
                                                            1. After Justinian´s death, the Byzantine Empire started losing territories
                                                              1. Lombards conquered parts of Italy
                                                                1. Visigoths expelled them from the Iberian Peninsula
                                                                  1. Constantinople remained
                                                                    1. Turks conquered them
                                                                      1. End of Middle Ages
                                                                      2. Justinian
                                                                        1. The most important emperor
                                                                          1. He ruled with his wife Theodora
                                                                            1. He tried to rebuild the Roman Empire
                                                                              1. Conquered many territories
                                                                                1. Africa
                                                                                  1. Italy
                                                                                    1. Iberian Peninsula
                                                                                    2. Under Justinian
                                                                                      1. Justinian Code
                                                                                        1. Emperor/Basileus
                                                                                          1. Great power
                                                                                            1. Commanded
                                                                                              1. Army
                                                                                                1. Government
                                                                                                  1. Religious leader
                                                                                            2. Tradition and religion
                                                                                              1. Greek replaced Latin
                                                                                                1. East-West Schiscm
                                                                                                  1. Roman Catholic Church
                                                                                                    1. Byzantine Orthodox Church
                                                                                                    2. Religion affected culture
                                                                                                      1. Emperors tried to prohibit worship to holy images or icons
                                                                                                        1. Orthodoxy main form of Christianity
                                                                                                          1. Rusia
                                                                                                            1. Lithuania
                                                                                                              1. Belarous
                                                                                                                1. Bulgaria
                                                                                                                  1. Romania
                                                                                                                    1. Greece
                                                                                                                      1. Macedonia
                                                                                                                    2. Art
                                                                                                                      1. Churches had a Greek-Cross Plan and large domes
                                                                                                                        1. Hagia Sophia
                                                                                                                        2. Mosaics covered walls and ceilings
                                                                                                                      2. Islam
                                                                                                                        1. Muhammad
                                                                                                                          1. Islamic religion
                                                                                                                            1. The expansion of Islam
                                                                                                                              1. A brilliant civilization
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