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Capital City - Constantinople
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Fall of the Western Roman Empire
Beggining of the Middle Ages -
Social, economic and political conditions in Western Europe during the Early Middle Ages
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Franks - Gaul (France)
Visigoths and Suevis - Iberian Peninsula
Ostrogoths (later Lombards) - Italy
Angles and Saxons - Britian -
Leovigild (568-586) - Territories
Reccared (586-601) - Catholic
Recceswinth (649-672) - Unified Laws -
527 to 565
Time of esplendor and cultural achivement
Agia Sophia Church -
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Mahoma (a merchant from a wealthy family), was from Mecca. He began to preach Islam. He belived there was only one god, Allah.
Merchants in Mecca did not accept his teachings, so in 622 he escaped to Medina. This event became known as the Hegira.
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From 632 to 661
Arabs spread Islam through jihad (holy war)
The capital was Medina -
Between 661 and 750
Damascus was named the new capital.
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Controlled most of North Africa.
Muslim conquest continued the Islamic expansion accross the Mediterranean region. -
The Muslims defeated the Visigoth King Roderic in this battle. -
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Between 750 and 1258.
The capital was Baghdad.
They lost control over many territories.
In 1258, a Mongol army sacked Baghdad and killed the last Abbasid Caliph. -
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Charlmagne is named Emperor -
End of the Carolingian Empire
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In 976 Al-Mansur takes control
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After the collapse of the Caliphate of córdoba, there was ethnic and political division in Andalusi society.
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Almoravids crossed over to the Iberian Peninsula in 1086.
Almohads were the successors of the Almoravids in North Africa, crossed over in 1147. -
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Clue: it doesnt last 100 years
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A terrible bacterial disease called the plague spread through Europe between 1348 and 1352. -
Battle between England and France -
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Discovery of America
End of the Middle Ages