My Notes
After Rome (500-700)
Germanic Kingdoms of Europe
-Germanic barbarians...warlords and their families who assimilated into Roman culture because the "nobles" or aristocrats of medieval Europe
-The Angles and the Saxons (from Denmark and northwestern Germany) invaded Britain and assimilated the native Britains
-Most of the Anglo-Saxons were converted to Christianity in the Seventh century
-the most powerful Germanic tribe was the Franks
- but the real power lay with the "mayor of the palace" who were royal officials and nobles themselves
Eastern Empire
-from Eastern Empire to "Byzantium"
-the Eastern Roman Empire continued on while the west was now divided up by barbarian tribes
-when the emperor Justinian came to power in 527, he decided the reunite the entire Roman Empire by reconquering the western territories
-Justinian succeeded for a while but they were eventually overwhelmed
Its a Christian Empire Now
-Greek Byzantine emperors saw themselves as Roman Emperors and the needs of the Christian Church
-Byzantine preserved Greco-Roman architecture, philosophy ad writing despite much of it being non-Christian
-Justinian built the massive domed Hagia Sophia-the biggest church ever
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