Monday- Vikings- Raiding Cities
Reasons for leaving homeland are unknown
- Overpopulation
- Early vikings looked for riches
British Isles
- Attacked much of British ruled areas
- Ireland, Scotland, England
Attack Tactics
- Attacked mush of Europe using hit and rin style
- Would attack and loot main
Goals/Purpose
- The early vikings were mainly driven by money
- They left their early civilizations to pillage form money and wealth
- Their goals were to take over as much as possible
Social Classes
Culture/Gender roles
- Males roles
- Raiders
- Traders
- Farmers
- Woman Roles
- Keeping the house
- Preparing things for the men
Quality of life
- Poor
- Moving from place to place
- Traded for a lot of their things
- You lived off what you pillaged
Expansion
- Population grew- people wanted own land
- Raids, exploration, search for wealth main reasons of expansion
- Lilled everyone to take land cor themselves
Wars
- Never had any fill on wars
- Small battles and confronations
- Often would just raid cities and take loot
Interesting Facts
- Didn't wear horned helments
- Human Trafficking
- The majority of men were farmers
- Vikings skied for fin and transportation
- First to land on the new would
Famous Leader/People
- Rollo- First ruler of Nomandy
- Erik the Red- Founded Greenland's fist Norse Settlement
- Olaf Tryggvason- Brought Chistianity to Norway
- Leif Eriksson
- Cnut the Geat
- Harlad Hardrada
End of Viking Era
- England able to hod off raid
- Vikings became spread out
- Biggest population in Europe
- Gets sucked into Chistianity
Tuesday- Viking overview with Mr. Bruns
Russia- Scandinavian warriors crossed the baltic Sea and settles with Slaves
- Central and easern
Oleg, a nobleman moved South to Kiev
- Now the Ukraine
- Vikings could sail by river to Constantinople
- Trade from distant lands
- Kiev then turned into a small state
- Prince
Main Goals
- New sources of trade
- Build closer tues with the far east
- Valuable products
- Expand the empire
Expanstion
- Began as Vikings
- Russia began as Kievan Rus' in 879-882 AD
- City of Moscow
- 1156- Crude village
- Located near Volga, Dnieper, and Don rivers
Treatment of Captured People
- Accepted Slavic cultures
Wars
- Battles between Yaroslav's sons 1054
- The Crusades
- Christians vs Muslims
- Control of the Holy Land in the Middle East
Mongol Invasions
- 1200's
- Genghis Khan
- 1240 attack on Kiev
- "When we passed through that land, we found lying in he field countless heads and bones of dead people."
- Mongols ruled southern Russia for 200 years
- Demanded Tributes and loyalty
Liberation
- Ivan III made final break
- Stand off by Ugra river
- Mongols and Russians both refused to fight
Social Classes
- Mostly peasants- 81.6%(88 milion)
- Other classes: nobles, merchants, clergy, military
- Serdom developed in 16th century, abolished in 1861 (later than rest of Europe)
1917 decline
Wednesday- presentations
Thursday- presentations
Friday- presentations
Byzantine empire Ka-hoot
Emperor Diocletian tried to save Rome by dividing Rome
Byzantine thought as themselves as Romans
Greek speaking and Latin speaking
Became Christianity first before
Justinian came to power and began reconquering Roman territories
Justinian's wife Theodora had a lot of power and influence in the Byzantine Empire
Met with foreign leaders
Justinian code- to oversee his new empire, Justinian ordered legal experts to consolidate old Roman laws into a single law code
Emperor began large building projects
Hippodrome used for chariot/horse races and other activities
The New Rome- was wealthy and produced gold, silk, gain
Plague of Justinian
Disease that resembled the bubonic plague hit Constantinople in the later years of Justinian's reign
Arrived from India on ships infested with rats
illness broke out repeatedly until around 700 when it finally
Christians in the East and west disagreed over leadership of the church
Pope head leader
eastern orthodox church
Great Schism (split)
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