Unit 3-A Timeline (600 CE - 1450 CE) - Culture / Thesis: The Christian and Islamic religions constantly changed all of Europe and Mediterranean. Overtime these two religions spread and intensified with anything and everything they created.
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The spread of Islam to north Africa had many effects on everyone, whether or not they converted to the religion. It linked Muslim Africa even more to the outside world via trade, religion, and politics. The message of Islam found decent holdings within African population and by 670 CE Muslims controlled Tunisia and Ifriqiya.
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As Christian missionaries worked to convert people to Christianity in northern Europe, popes also helped in the process. They sponsored extensive missionary activity while missionaries converted English, brought Christianity to northern and eastern Germany, and Scandinavia. Catholic missionaries also competed with Orthodox Christian missionaries for boarders and countries to convert.
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In 864 the missionaries Cyril and Methodius went to the territories of what are now the Czech and Slovak republics to convert their people to Roman Catholicism. Even though the conversion failed Cyril and Methodius stayed in these republics and successfully created and written language called Cyrillic. In the end this meant that the literacy rate would go up and Christian Orthodox ideas gradually infiltrated the Russian culture.
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Between the years 900 and 1000 CE surfs began to use the third field system instead of the half system that they had been using before. This third-field system worked by planting on two-thirds of your land instead of only a half, the result was more crop and still fertile land. They also invented a new type of plow called the moldboard which used a curved iron blade to dig deeper in soil.
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The Christian crusades were a series of religious wars sanctioned from Christian crusaders, knights, from western Europe. These men were determined to capture the portions of the Islamic world that made up the Holy Lands from biblical times. The crusader's firsthand experiences in the east intensified their borrowing from the Muslim world. This included Muslim weapon making and fortification building techniques.
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The medieval west came to excel in religious art. Artists used religious subjects exclusively and their masterpieces were intended to worship the glory of god. Medieval architecture was initially based off of Roman models, mainly in church buildings, until the 11th century when Europeans found their own style of art and mainly architecture named Gothic. The Gothic style consisted mainly of soaring spires and tall arched windows, sometime with stained-glass.
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The university of Paris is one of the oldest universities in modern Europe. It is best know for its theology and philosophy programs of study. In the end it became the template for almost all medieval universities that came after it.
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Thomas Aquinas was an Italian-born monk who taught at the university of Paris. He maintained the basic belief that faith came first, but greatly expanded the scope given to reason. though reason alone, humans could know much of the nature of god. Scholasticism was the dominant medieval philosophical approach was called this because of its base in the schools. At its height it demonstrated unusual confidence in the logical orderliness of knowledge and in the human ability to know.
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When Islam hit Asia it was the most sophisticated and widely spread or influential religions they had yet to see other that their own. They were confronted with a religious system that was completely opposite theirs; Hinduism was open, tolerant, and inclusive of widely varying forms of religious devotion. Islam, however, was doctrinaire, proselytizing, and committed to the exclusive worship of a single, transcendent god.
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What came to be known as the Hajj, Mansa Musa's giant caravan is something that is required for all Muslims who a fit and able to make it. The caravan initially traveled from the empire of Mali through the Sahara all the way to Cairo, Egypt. Mansa Musa's caravan carried over 100 camels, many slaves, and 1,000's of others.
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