HIST 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Axial Age, Ancient Greek Philosophy, Modern Warfare
18 Oct 2017
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Religions play a big role in forming empires. Benevolent god that loves and accepts you becoming more prominent. King becomes christian and then brings other people towards. King converting is a great way to unite kingdom. Christianity takes a much longer time to spread than islam. For the longest time, women didn"t play a large role. Don"t often read about women or women"s voices. Little stories of women but not big narratives, but rather, little stories. In bigger pictures behind stories, women have never really had a big voice. First actively documented work from women come from buddhism. One of the important events that make western europe very weak at this time. Asterix comics about relationship between rome and gods. In most cases, history is about use versus the barbarians. Main cause of decay in rome is their internal politics. Western roman empire falls, but eastern roman empire is flourishing. Justinian and theodora are building up a powerful empire.
