Carolingian Europe

At this time, Europe travelled north due to the great soil that was up there! The economy was great and so were the passing and going leaders. The technology was advancing as well. With the new technology, they had more time to plow more fields, meaning more money. Charlamagne was their greatest leader! He was unlike any other Germanic King, he wasn't as brutal. He was very intelligent, and to top it off, he was a Warrior-King. Every year he would lead his army to war and succeeded. When they went to war, the question wasn't when they were going to war, it was who are we going to war with? Besides the triumphant army, he also combined the three of the greatest culture in Ancient Rome, Classical, Christian and Germanic. I bet if this never happened, we wouldn't have any seeders or plow machine things anymore. We'd just stick with the carabaos, we still do it now don't we?

Explosion of Islam

BOOM!

This handout focuses on the prophet Muhammed, and how he was able to spread the Islam Religion around the world. He was not really hated in Mecca, but they wanted nothing to do with him because of his beliefs, so he travelled to Medina and started his preaching. After he had fully converted Medina he travelled back to Mecca and converted them, and it came with the luck of conquering Mecca. That's how he spread the Islamic Religion, he travelled around the world, preached the passages from the Koran and converted the states, and the people looked up to him like a God, so he conquered so states as well. And look at the world now, Muslim is now the second largest Religion in the world! Next to Christianity that is.

Early Western Christendom

This handout is about Christianity in the West and how it spread, it was also about how the West slowly fell and due to invasions. During this time, the biggest religion there was, was Christianity. Most people at that time, converted themselves from Arianism to Christian. Western Christianity spread to Byzantium and most converted. When the west fell, Christianity didn't, because most people in Byzantium were Christian, and the tribes that conquered the West, inherited Christianity and it continued to spread. Soon enough the western tribes started spreading it overseas. It reached us, the Philippines. If Christianity didn't survive or if it didn't spread. We'd be all Muslim, our government would be different, and the Philippines would've been an empire. The Philippine Empire sounds pretty cool doesn't it?

Byzantium Endures

Come to think about it, Byzantium was placed in a really good place at a really good time, geographically that is. Not only that, they were very strategic when it came to figuring out how to defend themselves from where they were at. They had great armies, and the Germanic tribes could only pass the West to get to Byzantium, and if the Germanic Tribes did get through Byzantium's great army, they had to get through an even bigger and better Asia Minor that was protecting them. So it took about a few hundred years till the Germanic tribes got through.

Byzantium was actually the closest thing to the great Rome Empire. Okay Sir Raymond, so not mention this part i'm about to say. Byzantium was like the Oklahoma City Thunder or New Orleans Hornets. They've got everything, but they're not quite there yet. They still have a few bits and pieces to put together. I mean Byzantium had a great army, emperors that weren't mad or crazy, but their weakness was Christianity, and in some ways a strength. Some Byzantines had some controversies and arguments religion. And at the end, Byzantium started to collapse. The West started appearing out of the blue, and Byzantium started asking for help from the Franks/French. And the century of Manzikert ended with the fall of Jerusalem. Jerusalem suprisingly didn't fall because of the Byzantine warrior, because Byzantium, like i said, started to fall. Jerusalem fell because of the Franks or French. Although Byzantium loss their military prowess. They still kept their culture. The expanding stopped, and they just stayed put, trying to keep what they already had.

The Waning of the Western Empire

It was really sad that the Great Roman Empire fell, but really for me, or as it said in the handout, it was brought down by the western part of Rome. The west struggled with their economy, and that they had a hard time developing as the East did. By the fifth century, the great cities that once stood, were now hiding in the shadows, looking back at what they once were. Only a limited amount of people had enough money to actually had enough money to manage the economic disaster of the Western Empire. And those wealthy people abandoned their townhouses and moved to big estates, and pay a few soldiers to make a private army, so that they could avoid the tax collectors. This thing that i read in the handout was really stupid. The Western Empire hired or got Germanic tribes, so that they could defend the West from other Germanic Tribes. Kind of ironic really. They got enemies to protect them from other enemies.

Reading this handout actually made me think, it made made think that what if the Western Empire didn't fall? Would we have everything we had now? Or maybe better? Maybe we'd all be muslim, and our technology would be Tony Stark-ish. It's really something to think about.