HIST 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Axial Age, Zoroastrianism, Black Death
11 Nov 2016
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Not new idea globally, heavily persecuted, start talking about religion and often opened doors for women. Women wrote, no difference between men and women both have souls and can reach salvation. Byzantine empire still around, called nomads barbarians, rome hired many visigoths in the army and were mercenaries , hearing more of women"s voices, digest of justinian codified. Roman law: it"s a long process, barbarians is a complex term (rome had been attacked many times by nomadic tribes, alaric, attila, the visigoth, the gauls. Main reason for the fall: the eastern roman empire - byzantine, justinian and theodora women"s rights, construction of hagia sophia - wisdom, the plague of justinian not black plague, the rivals of the byzantine empire. Mahayana is quite different than the original, no god: mahayana buddhism spreads along the silk route, major changes in the brahmanic ritualistic religion in india (hinduism?, buddhism disappears from india but becomes a major religion in east asia.
