Friday, November 18, 2011

Chapter 10: Christendom in class notes

Christendom is associated with Europe

  • Roots in Roman Empire (monopoly set of government)
  • Area around the Mediterranean sea 
  • Roman Empire collapsed around 500AD
  • warfare- expansion
  • the more land they tried to take over the harder it got ( not enough soldiers)
  • protection of borders began to be hard, they lost their ability to protect there land
  • Roman Empire: Educated, urban, civilized
Law enforcement: 
  • No police
  • No court to fix deputes 
  • Basic social services
After the collapse of the Roman empire
  • People moved to were there was resources and land owners
  • Prayer=Christianity still existed after the collapse 
  • Protection=protect borders
  • Production=food/or other products
Post classical (middle ages, medieval) 
-Eastern Orthodox
-Constantinople was the capital trade was growing here
-Byzantine : 100 years still existed after the Roman Empire
-Continuation of Roman Empire
-Collapsed around 1500 AD
-Constantinople today is known as  Turkey

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