01:510:209 Chapter Notes -Pope Urban Ii, High Middle Ages, Western Knights Sc
8 Feb 2014
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1300: europeans lived in better houses, ate better food (esp. peas and beans, and more cheese, eggs, fish, and meat). They also wore better clothing: although agricultural villages still predominated, cities had become a critical part off european life by. 1300: europe developed by its own efforts, no external stimulus, centralization of governing authority, both within secular state and within the church. 1000: byzantium was powerful and secure; basil ii the bulgar-slayer: macedonian dynasty ended when basil ii died, threat posed by asian power, seljuk turks, took away armenia from byzantium and destroyed byzantines at the battle of manzikert in. 1071: manzikert was a turning point in byzantine history, breaking byz"s age-long hold on asia minor, byz empire began to shrink, alexius comnenus of the byzantine empire begged pope urban ii of the west for help against the. 1000 was glorious for al-andalus but later was conquered by christian armies. In the borderlands, the medieval people learned and acquired things.
