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Eastern Europe

Chapter 10 The Earth and Its People

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Chapter 10 Christian Europe Emerges 300-1200 C.E. Early Medieval Europe, 300?1000 Time of Insecurity Roman Empire breaks down Western Europe continued to suffer invasions Muslim Arabs and Berbers took the Iberian Peninsula and pushed into France Carolingians Family of Rulers In the eighth century the Carolingians united various Frankish kingdoms into a larger empire At its height, under Charlemagne, the empire included Gaul and parts of Germany and Italy The empire was subdivided by Charlemagne's grandsons and never united again. Vikings Vikings attacked England, France, and Spain in the late eighth and ninth centuries Vikings also settled Iceland and Normandy, from which the Norman William the Conqueror invaded England in 1066. A Self-Sufficient Economy

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CIVILIZATION: Russia (600-1450) Time Period: 600-1450CE Geographic Description: -Dneiper River flows North to South into the Black Sea which provided interaction with Constantinople; Kiev (early center of Russia- now Ukraine)developed along the river to the north as a major trading city -lands surrounding Dneiper and Kiev are a bread basket -tundra to the north -Ural Mountains (old and not very high serve as the East divide between Europe and Asia -Russia?s topography is relatively flat because it is located along the Eurasian Plain P -Early Russia borrowed heavily from Constantinople (Byzantine Empire) -the Cyrillic Alphabet was made when the Bible was translated into Slavic Languages; adopted from the Greek alphabet that the Byzantine Empire used

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CIVILIZATION: Byzantine Empire Time Period: 330-the emperor Constantine built a new capital at Constantinople; Byzantine would be a separate Empire after the Fall of Rome in 476 to1453-the taking of Constantinople by the Ottoman empire Geographic Description: -Eastern half of the Roman Empire that lived on after the fall -Capital Constantinople benefited from strategic location which protected the area from barbaric invasions while rest of Roman Empire fell -Covered an area from Rome through southeastern Europe and Asia Minor, down to Egypt and across North Africa, as well as a portion of Spain at its height under Justinian; in 600s it would slowly lose land ? growth of Islam caused land loss as well as desire for independence in the Balkans later P
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