HIST 025 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Michael Vii Doukas, Fatimid Caliphate, Pope Urban Ii
8 Oct 2020
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Shia fatimids were in control of egypt and palestine. Important trading partners with the italian city states. Berber and turkish cavalries begin to skirmish. Sudanese infantry and turkish cavalry begin a civil war which damages. Governor of palestine, with christian armenian troops, rescues cairo. Palestine is now unprotected malik shah and the seljuks capture palestine. Manzikert showed that the byzantines were not invincible. Seljuks begin an increasing occupation of anatolia. Reoussel de bailleul, a norman mercenary in the pay of the byzantines, leads a force of frankish, norman and german mercenaries in the capture of galatia in. Emperor michael vii asks the freelance seljuks to remove him their success leads to the sultanate of rum. Vikings (period of the end of expansion) 999-1042, norman mercenaries in lombardy or byzantium. 1070s normans take sicily from arabs. Allied with the normans against the lombards/ greeks. At war with the hre over the issue of investiture in the late 11th century.
