HST 101 Lecture : 09 - Christian Societies Emerge in Europe, 600 - 1200.doc
Document Summary
Religious differences and doctrinal disputes permeated the byzantine. Empire; nonetheless, polytheism was quickly eliminated: while the unity of political and religious power prevented the byzantine empire from breaking up, the byzantines did face serious foreign threats. Huns on the northern frontier were not difficult to deal with, but on the east the. Sasanids harassed the byzantine empire for almost three hundred years: following the sasanids, the muslim arabs took the wealthy provinces of syria, Egypt, and tunisia from the byzantine empire and converted their people to. These losses permanently reduced the power of the byzantine empire. One result was the loss of the middle class so that. Byzantine society was characterized by a tremendous gap between the wealth of the aristocrats and the poverty of the peasants. In the byzantine period the family became more rigid; women were confined to their houses and wore veils if they went out.
