Byzantium

Byzantium was a great ancient Greek city state founded around 600 BC named after its king Byzas, the leader of the Megarean colonists and founder of the city. He settled in Constantinople because of the spin strip of water that connected Asian to Europe and the black sea to the Mediterranean. Byzantium now means old or devious but during its 1100 years it was the savior to the western world’s profound heritage of long literature but it has also put Christianity on fast track and along the way…

Essay One Since the death of Prophet Muhammad, the expansion of Islam has been evident beyond the Arabian Peninsula and specifically Makkah town. In the contemporary society, Islam is practiced in each continent and region including Africa, Europe, Nothern India and Southwest Asia. The spread of Islam has been motivated by the migration of Muslims to other regions of the world and the conversion of individuals from other religions to Islam. Military campaigns after the Hijrah era led to a…

Throughout history, mankind has been faced with several catastrophes and crises that needed to be overcame to ensure existence. Three epidemic plagues that humanities are credited to have defeated are the Black Death of the fourteenth century, the Justinian Plague, and the late nineteenth century Chinese Plague (Rosen 247). Being said, one of the most destructive disaster’s the human race has witnessed was the Black Death, which devastated the structure of the world at the time. A civilization…

During the time period between 5th and 15th century, religious and social changes impacted Europe immensely. One particular religious alteration was the decline of papacy authority, as a result of The Black Death. Another major change was the religious impact of the Protestant Reformation circa 1500. On the other hand, The Crusades socially altered the middle ages of Europe. Initially, the Black death appeared during the mid fourteenth century and resulted in european society to view it as a…

thought the Holy Land belonged to them alone. Seljuk Turks wanted to overtake Islamic regions and regions that did not follow Islam, but they focused more on taking power from other Muslims and not from the “West,” or Christendom. The Turks did attack Byzantium, which was already weak, so the empire had to rely on European troops for military support. When the emperor sent this plea to Pope Urban II, he reworded it to make it seem like a war to take back a Christian region, which created a…

Many exchanges occurred on the Silk Road, in it, included culture. The Silk Road did not only promote commodity exchange but also cultural. For example, Buddhism one of the religions of the Kushan kingdom, reached all the way to China. Together with merchant caravans, Buddhist monks went from India to Central Asia and China, preaching the new religion. The first onset of Christianity is connected with the activity of Nestorians. In the 13th century the Silk Road was the route for the new wave of…

Rome was not built in a day is a common phrase coined to convey feelings of patience. Although it is just a saying it is interesting to see what is not emphasized; how long the fall of Rome took. It takes a much longer time to found and establish an empire as opposed to destroying one. However while Rome wasn’t built in a day it wasn’t destroyed in a day either. Empires and kingdoms rise and fall, an important aspect of examining empires is distinguishing when one has fallen and when one has…

The traditions, both societally and politically, of the Roman empire were carried on more by the Byzantines empire than the rest of Medieval Europe. Of these two “Children of Rome” only the Byzantine Empire was the one to carry on its mantle. As such the Byzantine empire was more of a transformation of the Roman empire which it had proceeded it in a number of different ways. One of the key features that defined the Roman empire was a strong central government. Of the two “Children of Rome,”…

Four professional armies of Crusaders set off. The People’s Crusade, a smaller and more disorganized group, left before the four armies went off to Byzantium. The People’s Crusade made their way across the Bosporus in early August of 1096, before the professional armies even set off. This is when the first noteworthy clash of the Crusades happened, between the ragtag People’s Crusaders and the Turkish…

Different needs have to be provided geographically in order for societies to develop. Access to water was and still is a need that must be provided in order for people to survive. Civilizations were built around bodies of water to grow crops and access drinking water. These locations also needed to combat floodwaters. The Indus River Valley civilization would build cities on man-made islands to keep flooding waters out of the city. Arable land also needed to be present in order for a…