Western civ Dark Ages
1. the negative view of the dark ages became popular because of the written records had a strong Rome centric bias. The idea of the dark ages came from the renaissance scholars who viewed ancient Greece and Rome as the pinnacle of human achievement Also, they dismissed the era that followed as a dark and chaotic time with no great leader.
2. Kings and queens and other rulers drew much of their authority and power from there relationship with the church. The rise of the strong papacy meant that European monarchs could not monopolize power. Europe lacked a large kingdom, so the medieval church grew into the most powerful institution in Europe.
3. The dominance of the church was a major reason later scholars branded the period as unlightened. Early Christian monasteries encouraged literacy and learning. One particularly influential monk of the middle ages was Benedict of Nursia, who founded the great monastery of Montecassino. His rule spread across Europe, eventually becoming the model for most western monasteries. His insistence and his rule that monks should do manual as well as intellectual and spiritual followed for centuries.
4. Before the middle ages, Europe's agricultural prosperity was limited to the south, where sandy, dry and loose soil was suited to the earliest functioning plow. The inventions of the heavy plow would galvanize the agriculture of northern Europe by the 10th century. The horse collar, which was placed around the horse's neck and shoulders to distribute weight and protects the animal when pulling a wagon or plow.
5. The dark ages are the idea that the medieval Christian church suppressed natural scientists. Historical evidence just doesn't support this. Progress may have been slower in western Europe during the Early middle ages. The Islamic world leaped ahead in mathematics and science. Al- Khwarizmi introduced Europe to algebra, including the first systematic. solution of. linear and. quadratic equations.
6. Karl. inherited the Frankish kingdom with. his brother. Carloman when Pepin died in 768. Carloman. died several years later. over 50 military campaigns. Karl forces fought Muslims in Spain, Bavarian, and Saxons in northern Germany. and Lombards in Italy, expanding the Frankish empire exponentially. Charlemagne took seriously his duty to spread the faith. In 800, pope Leo lll crowned Charlemagne emperor of the Romans.
2. Kings and queens and other rulers drew much of their authority and power from there relationship with the church. The rise of the strong papacy meant that European monarchs could not monopolize power. Europe lacked a large kingdom, so the medieval church grew into the most powerful institution in Europe.
3. The dominance of the church was a major reason later scholars branded the period as unlightened. Early Christian monasteries encouraged literacy and learning. One particularly influential monk of the middle ages was Benedict of Nursia, who founded the great monastery of Montecassino. His rule spread across Europe, eventually becoming the model for most western monasteries. His insistence and his rule that monks should do manual as well as intellectual and spiritual followed for centuries.
4. Before the middle ages, Europe's agricultural prosperity was limited to the south, where sandy, dry and loose soil was suited to the earliest functioning plow. The inventions of the heavy plow would galvanize the agriculture of northern Europe by the 10th century. The horse collar, which was placed around the horse's neck and shoulders to distribute weight and protects the animal when pulling a wagon or plow.
5. The dark ages are the idea that the medieval Christian church suppressed natural scientists. Historical evidence just doesn't support this. Progress may have been slower in western Europe during the Early middle ages. The Islamic world leaped ahead in mathematics and science. Al- Khwarizmi introduced Europe to algebra, including the first systematic. solution of. linear and. quadratic equations.
6. Karl. inherited the Frankish kingdom with. his brother. Carloman when Pepin died in 768. Carloman. died several years later. over 50 military campaigns. Karl forces fought Muslims in Spain, Bavarian, and Saxons in northern Germany. and Lombards in Italy, expanding the Frankish empire exponentially. Charlemagne took seriously his duty to spread the faith. In 800, pope Leo lll crowned Charlemagne emperor of the Romans.
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