HIST 218 Lecture 9: hist 218 oct 7.docx
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A map question; two short answer/id questions, and an essay. Anatolia filling in behind the first crusade and establishing influence in the crusade estates: the komenoi, increasingly pro-western regimes. In policies, dress, attitudes: didn"t sit too well with traditionalists and led to popular resentments and anti- Byzantine is trying to swap their trading partners with genoa: defeat at myriokephalon 1176. Byzantines who had been pushing in anatolia suffered a major setback: manuel dies 1180, unpopular pro-western head of regency council as manuel"s widow, the norman princes. Maria of antioch, for alexios (12: people see this western influence as a problem, rebellions take place, attempted coups, factions within the komnenoi family think they have a right to power, coup by andronikos i 1183. Had a high profile series of affairs seems like he wanted everything. Thessaloniki in 1185: brutal sacking of thessaloniki, now heading towards constantinople, andronikos is overthrown.