The DARK AGES

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The DARK AGES

Islamic World

Made cultural developments

Comercial

Mathematical

Medicinal

Scientific

They expanded their power west to Spain getting in contact with Europe.

The Abbasids took over

They developed culture and took important concepts from Greeks, Romans, India

They tried to prevent Arabs from fraternizing with Non-Arabs Muslims

This made Non-Arabs angry and they dethroned the Umayyads

The Umayyad Dinasty moved the capital to Damascus

Topic principal

Feudalism

Social system

No possible mobility

Economical system

Peasants work the land

Give the rest to the Lord they work for

Keep part of the production

Political system based on Reciprocal Relationships

Vassls

Peasants

Worked the lands in exchange for protection

Knights

Protected the lords and lands

The KING

Other Lords

How Dark were they?

Life expectancy

Better than before and after (not counting The Plague)

Knowledge development

Mainly outside Europe

Religion

The Crusades

Theologian: Thomas Aquinas

Catholism was the center and reached for the power as well

Art

It developed its own forms of expression

Culture

Superstition and religious debates

Poetry lacking innovations

Oral tales flooded the continent

It´s an European denomination

Obviesly made by those who lived after and thought their time was better

It´s pejorative, demeaning and insultive for those who lived during those years

It´s based on the alleged "UNenlightenment"

Medieval Times

Mostly centered in european lands

It´s a period between two other important periods

The Modern Age (from 1492 A.C. to 1789 A.C.)

The Ancient Era (from 4000 B.C. to 476 A.C.)

From 476 A.C to 1492 A.C.