HIS102Y1 Lecture 4: Lecture 4 - Dark Ages.docx
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East central european history sept. 20th 2012. Lecture 4: dark ages : rome"s successor states and the barbarians of east central europe between. In the north of europe a new group of people the slavs appeared. A confederation of tribes is not necessarily a state but this is a matter for debate. The slavic people are a mystery we don"t really know where they came from. They appeared suddenly in central and northern europe. There are many theories about the origins of rus, but the slavic group of tribes definitely grew fast. Around the year 500 they crossed the valley and entered the byzantine. Ptolemy"s map from alexandria calls the carpathian mountains the mountains of the slavs, and he calls the baltic sea the sea of slavs. After several hundred years the slavic tribes controlled most of east central europe.
