HIS102Y1 Lecture Notes - Carpathian Mountains, Balkans, Great Moravia
Document Summary
Rome"s successor states and the barbarians of east central europe. North of europe new people appear called the slavs. States should include a fiscal apparatus but this was not often the case with most early slavic states. 500 ad crossed the danube and entered the byzantine empire. Agricultural society, developing quite slowly with a pagan religion divided into clans and these were organized into little tribes. East central europe was a corridor to western europe the avars came to central europe. The bulgars came from far eastern europe, moving to modern day bulgaria. The khazars were of turkish origin and came to central europe, establishing a large state in the 7th century including kiev. The byzantine empire, fighting for recreation of the roman empire used diplomacy, ideology, and religion. The greeks send messengers to the khazar empire to arrange an alliance this is how the khazars adopted christianity.
