The Early Middle Ages:Europeans and Invasions

Lisa M. LaneHistory 103

Abbassid Caliphate

• mathematics• Ibn Sina (Avicenna) and Aristotle’s works• astronomy and the astrolabe: the first computer, a “tool of the devil”

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market towns, agricultural growth,knights in armor, Gothic cathedrals,Jewish merchants, industrial water power

The Barbarian Contribution

The Cross-Cultural Ninth Century• Abbassid Caliphate• Viking Invasions• Byzantium and Russia

Invasions:

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N: VikingsE: MagyarsS: Saracens

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Viking invasions

Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (9th c)

Byzantium and Russia

St Cyril, c. 860