jueves, 12 de noviembre de 2009

Definiciones.

1. Allah: is the god of a new religion founded by Muhammad.
2. Byzantine Empire: it was the Eastern Roman Impire. It´s capital city Constantinople.Empire lasted betwen Vth and XVth century.
3. Carolingian Empire: it was a empire located in France.Its emmperador was Charlemagne. Was present from 800 to 843
4. Germanic:
was a Roman province. In this province inhabited by many tribes, many of the tribes attacked Rome.
5. Hegira: date which mark the start of tehe muslim calendar.
6. Islam: Is a religion that is spread out mainly in North Africa and on the peninsula and in Eastern Europe. His only god is Allah and his prophet Maoma
7. Justinian Code:They are a set of laws created by the Emperor Justinian of the Byzantine Empire. This set of laws are Roman features.
8. mosaics: son un conjunto de pequeños azulejos que normalmente eran para decorar paredes y techos en iglesias y mezquitas.
9. monotheistic:The monotheistic religions are those that only believe in one God. The most important ones are Christianity, Judaism and Islam.
10. Ramadan:is one of the five laws to be seguuir Muslims. This law is to fast every day for a month.
11. Huns:The Huns were a confederation of Eurasian tribes, many of the most diverse backgrounds, united by an aristocracy that spoke a Turkic language. This group of people appeared in Europe in the fourth century, and its greatest exponent was Attila the Hun. The Huns were called barbarians by the Romans, who invaded between the fourth and fifth centuries.
12. Basileus:It is the name given to the Emperor of Byzantium
13. Bizantine Orthodox Chuch:Belonging to a religion is Christianity, which is separated from it by various quasar, including the worship of holy images.
14. East-West Schism:It was the separation between the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church.
15. Icons:Are those pictures in which an image out of some divine or holy.
16. Treaty of Verdum:The treaty was signed with the sons of Charlemagne to the empire finally split in two
17. Missi dominici:was the person sent by the government of Charlemagne, to the distant provinces to see how the rule was there
18. Counties:eran cada uno de los territorios en los que se dividia el imperio carolingio. estos estaban gobernado por el conde



1. Vikings: was a Scandinavian people who attacked Europe and especially England in early 1000. They founded several colonies in the Mediterranean sea
2. Magyars:fue una civilizacion llegada desde la meseta central asiatica que ataco europa, especialmente a los pueblos germanicos.
3. Saracens:They were pirates, Muslims, who attacked all the coasts of the Mediterranean.
4. Serfs:were each of the servants of the king, they obeyed all orders of the king.
5. nobles: were servants of the king, who ruled the lands ceded this
6. Fief o manor:was the governor of one manor or lordship. He lived in a castle
7. Vassals:were servants of the king who dictated the orders he was saying.
8. Paid homage:
9. Court:was a group of citizens and priests who advised the king
10. Demesne
11. Clergy:was the whole Catholic Church, priests, bishops, monks, nuns ....
12. Privileged states
13. Pope:is the maximum authority of the Catholic Church. Also affected other aspects.
14. Order of Saint Benedict
15. Regular clergy
16. Knight:were brave warrior who fought. They had a squire assistant.
17. Tithe:was a tax they had to pay all the peasants to the Catholic Church
18. Fallow:is a period of time allowed to return farmland to get its minerals.
19. Self-sufficient

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