University:
Eastern Kentucky University
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HIS 100 | World Topics to 1500
Academic year:

2019
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36

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2
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Christian Societies Emerge in Europe Charlemagne was the first in western Europe to bear the title emperor in over 300 years. Charlemagne establishes the Carolingian Empire which is parts of Germany and Italy, and Gaul. Rome was declining at the time and Charlemagne was rising. This was medieval era because of the Greco-Roman civilization and the changes that were occurring of the Renaissance in the fourteenth century. Byzantine Empire was an eastern portion of the Roman Empire, they fell to the Ottomans in 1453. Influence of the Christian Church help shape the emerging kingdom of Kievan Russia. The Byzantine Empire lost power due to the loss of populous and prosperous provinces. They were able to recover in the tenth century. Relations with popes and princes worsen and this lead to a schism, a formal spilt within a religious community. Christianity was their official religion. There were different powers. Men were seen as more powerful in the family, but women still had comparative freedom in public. Economically, Byzantine emperors set prices, organized grain shipments and monopolize trade in luxury goods. Byzantine’s greatest architectural monument would have to be Constantinople’s Hagia Sophia which represents “Sacred Wisdom”. Military strength help in the rise of the Carolingian. Vikings appeared as threats. Romans were becoming a self sufficient economy. Manors were a self sufficient landholding consisting of the lords’s residence, outbuilding, peasant village, and surrounding land. Manors became the primary center of agricultural production. Serfs were agricultural workers who belonged to the manor, they were bound to the lord’s property. Kings granted fiets to their noble followers and this was known as vassals. In the West, Roman nobles lost control of the papacy, the central administration of the Roman Catholic Church. The Holy Roman Empire would eventually start to lose its power and would last from 962 to 1806. There were tons of dispute between the popes and the Holy Roman Emperors over who held ultimate authoruty over bishops in imperial lands, this was known as investiture controvers. Henry II became king of England in 1154 at nearly age 20. Henry had a tougher time controlling the church. Monasticism played a big role in the lives of many as it was featured prominently in the religious life of almost well medieval Christian lands. The most important form of monasticism in western Europe involved groups of monks or nuns living together in organized communities. The rise of the Kievan Empire occurred around 900-1200. They were very strong. They used jewelry as form of money. Technology was hard to determine as there was lack of evidence. Horse collar helped the efficiency of horses. The Crusades were fights to recover Jerusalem from Muslim rule. Crusades brought an end to western Europe’s centuries of intellectual and cultural isolation. In the end, Roman rule affected western and Eastern Europe in different ways.