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This map shows the history of Europe in 1000 BCE. A period of turmoil Over the past few centuries the peoples of Europe have experienced widespread disruption as the peoples of the Tumulus cultures have expanded out from their central Europe homelands, just before 1200 BCE.
Oct 29, 2023 · Created by Tina Ross, this map details the kingdoms and states that existed in Europe at the beginning of the 11th century. While the Holy Roman Empire was the major power in Central Europe, other powerful states include the Caliphate of Cordoba and the Bulgarian Empire.
- Introduction
- Questions to Guide Your Reading
- Key Terms
- Successor Kingdoms to The Western Roman Empire
- Byzantium: The Age of Justinian
- Perspectives: Post-Roman East and West
- The British Isles: Europe’s Periphery
- Byzantium: Crisis and Recovery
- 0 Western Europe: The Rise of The Franks
- 1 Global Context
It was Christmas Day in Rome in the year 800 CE. The cavernous interior of St. Peter’s Church smelled faintly of incense. Marble columns lined the open space of the nave, which was packed with the people of Rome. At the eastern end of the church, which was the most prestigious in Western Europe, King Charles of the Franks knelt before the pope. A t...
How did the Germanic peoples of Western Europe relate to the former Roman territories over which they had taken control?Which of Justinian’s policies had the longest-lasting effects?What crises did the Byzantine Empire face during the reign of Heraclius?What was a way that the Byzantine state reorganized itself to face the challenges of seventh- and eighth-century invasions?Al-AndalusAlcuin of YorkAnglo-SaxonsAvarsThe Germanic peoples who had invaded the Roman Empire over the course of the fifth century had, by the early 500s, established a set of kingdoms in what had been the Western Empire. The Vandals ruled North Africa in a kingdom centered on Carthage, a kingdom whose pirates threatened the Mediterranean for nearly eighty years. The Visigoths ruled Spai...
An observer of early sixth-century Italy would have thought that its Ostrogothic kingdom was the best poised to carry forward with a new state that, in spite of its smaller size than the Roman Empire, nevertheless had most of the same features. But the Ostrogothic kingdom would only last a few decades before meeting its violent end. That end came a...
In many ways, the post-Roman Germanic kingdoms of Western Europe and the Byzantine Empire shared a similar fate. Both saw a sharp ruralization—that is, a decline in the number of inhabited cities and the size of those cities that were inhabited. Both saw plunges in literacy. And both saw a state that was less competent—even at tax collection. Moreo...
In many of the lands that had been part of the Roman Empire, the Germanic peoples who had taken over Western Europe built kingdoms. Although not as sophisticated as the Roman state, they were still recognizable as states. This situation stood in sharp contrast to Britain. To the northwest of Europe, the Roman Army had abandoned the island of Britai...
Although the Byzantine Empire was a remnant of the Roman state, by the eighth century, it was much weaker than the Roman Empire under Augustus or even than the Eastern Empire under Justinian. After their conquest of Egypt, the forces of the caliphate had built a navy and used it to sail up and lay siege to Constantinople itself in two sieges lastin...
At the west end of the Mediterranean and in northern Europe, the kingdom of the Franks would become the dominant power of the Christian kingdoms. Justinian’s armies had destroyed the Ostrogothic kingdom in Italy in the sixth-century Gothic War. A century and a half later, in 711, Arab Muslim invaders from North Africa conquered the Visigoth kingdom...
Although Charlemagne possessed one of the most powerful armies in Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Middle East, his empire was hardly a state compared to Tang China, the Abbasid Caliphate, or the Byzantine Empire. Compared to the armies of the Byzantine emperors, the Abbasid Caliphs, and above all, the Tang emperors, Charlemagne’s army was merely...
Full-size image of Map 7.6 – Map of The Vikings c. 1000 CE. Central Europe also faced attacks, these from the Magyars, a steppe people. The Magyars had been forced out of Southeastern Europe by another steppe people, the Pechenegs, and so from 899 on migrated into Central Europe, threatening the integrity of East Francia.
Overview. In the period from 1000 B.C. to 1 A.D., the Celts conquer and settle much of western and central Europe, acquiring wealth through raids and conquests. They master sophisticated metalworking technology and engage in trade with distant partners.
In the years between about 1000 and 1500, the culture and institutions of Western Europe took on a form that was distinct from the post-Roman Germanic kingdoms of the early Middle Ages and which would, in many ways, lay the foundations of Europe (and the Americas) into modern times.
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This third, fully revised edition of the Historical Atlas of Central Europe takes into consideration recent changes in the region. The 120 full-colour maps, each accompanied by an explanatory text, provide a concise visual survey of political, economic, demographic, cultural, and religious developments from the fall of the Roman Empire in the ...
