HIST-281 Lecture 14: Robert Guiscard
27 Oct 2020
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In southern europe, another branch of normans sailed to italy. These were the byzantine empire and the aghlabid dynasty. They would have to deal with a strange economy. Certain italian cities were becoming very mercantile: robert guiscard. The leader of the southern normans was guiscard. Norman ships sailed as far as sicily and the eastern mediterranean. They wanted to gain influence over trade routes. Sicily had a possession of the eastern roman empire into the medieval era. Even after byzantines lost control of sicily to aghlabid emirs, the greek language and greek. The base of power for aghlabids was mainland north africa. It was formerly ruled by the romans and vandals. Cities like palermo became bustling centers of commerce and intellectual life. The aghlabid emirate was subject to the abbasid caliphs in baghdad. In time, the aghlabids lost control of north africa to the rising fatimid dynasty.
