World History I

World History ILecture 8.4The Crusades and the Bubonic Plague Make sure that you are viewing this in Slide Show format. Click on Slide Show and push from beginning. Move through the presentation by pushing on the up and down arrows on your keyboardClick meI couldnt help myself it was too easy!

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Mongols are a people from inner Asia who do not have the traditional marking of a civilization.

The Mongol armies (the Golden Horde) invade Russia, China, and South East Asian Muslim states to create an empire from 1235 to 1259 CE/AD.

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Mongols even invade the Islamic Empire, but those invaders are converted to Islam

3Eastern European populations decline because of warfare and refugee flight

It is possible that the Mongols brought the Bubonic Plague with them as they conquered Eastern Europe and Byzantine

The Golden Horde never invades Constantinople, but the effect of their invasions on Byzantine will lead to weakness and the fall of the Empire

Constantinople finally falls to the Ottoman Turks in 1453 and becomes the capital of the Ottoman Empire from 1301 to 1922 CE/AD).

The name of the city is changed to Istanbul and the city is sustained by Islamic institutions

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Knowledge in Eastern Europe is protected in cities like Constantinople

The Islamic Empire seeks to foster knowledge, and they spread it through trade

The masses in Western Europe were uneducated and concerned with feudal obligations.

There is a serious possibility that knowledge will not expand and perhaps be lost in Medieval Western EuropeKnowledge(how do we protect it?)Click hereWorking in Hollywood is easy if you known your history!

The Late Medieval church preserved and expanded knowledge

Religious scholars were literate and usually worked in protected monasteries

Scholars translated Greek and Arabic texts into Latin, as well as made new knowledge (philosophy, medicine, science)available in Europe

Church Scholars laid the foundations for the first European degree granting university in Bologna (1088 CE/AD)

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