MIDDLE AGES

MIDDLE AGES

1. MIddle ages

   • Early middle ages (8-11 centuries)
   • Late middle ages (13-15 centuries )
   • High middle ages ( 11-13 )

2. Political developments

   • Monarch ( symbolical figure ) and nobels
   • In Eastern Europe appeared Islam. High Middle Ages, Muslim world fragmented and began (decline).

3. Economical developments

   • Conflicts
     • trade and the cities to decline
   • Economic
     • Based on livestock
   • Craft production and new trade routes
     • situation changed

4. Social developments

   • Invasions
     • Insequrity
   • Social structure
     • Population increased

5. Cultural developments

   • Christianity
   • Renaissance, Gothic and Romanesque
     • Early Modern Age.

6. EARLY MIDDLE AGES AND ISLAM

   • AN ERA OF INVASIONS
     • Changes in’ climate (affected agricultural production)
       • Population increased (resources insufficient).
         • Political or military weakness (neighbouring states)
           • Pressure from other peoples (military power)
     • Germanics to roman emire
       • Kingdoms established
       • Visigoths
         • Kingdom of Toledo
   • CAROLIGNIAN EMIRE
     • Frankish king Charlemagne
       • Otto I defeated the Magyars and Slavs
       • Carolingians governed
         • Economy and society
           • Agriculture
           • rewarded their nobles with large estates or latifundia
   • ISLAM AND CALIPHATE
     • Arabian Peninsula
     • POLITICAL STRUCTURE OF THE CALIPHATE
       • Caliphs
         • viziers
           • emirs
             • qadis
               • diwans
     • Muslim art
       • calligraphy, arabesque or foliate ornaments .
   • GERMANIC PEOPLE
     • Germanic peoples
       • Society
         • DIvided
           • Privided landwning
           • Nobles were dominant gorup
       • Economy
         • Based on livestock
       • mass migrations
         • Divided into kingdoms
           • In gaul
             • Franks
           • Iberian Penisula
             • Visigoths
             • Suebis
           • North Africa
             • The vandals
           • Italian peninsula
             • Ostrogoths
           • Great Britain
             • Angles
             • Saxons
       • deafeted teh western roman empire
       • 3-10th centirues