Early Middle Ages: Europeans and Invasions
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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”
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/shepherd_1911/shepherd-c-057.jpg
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:
from the
N: VikingsE: MagyarsS: Saracens
http://www.coloradocollege.edu/Dept/HY/Ashley/hy105/Map_-_Viking_Islam__Magyar_Invasions_to_11C.JPG
Viking invasions
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (9th c)
Byzantium and Russia
St Cyril, c. 860