Byzantine Empire vs Western Europe – Flashcards
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Encompassed much of the Mediterranean basin and continued Greco-Roman traditions, until conquests by Muslim Ottoman empire in 1453
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Byzantine Empire
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In Constantinople, Eastern-Orthodox Christianity became a large part of society
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Byzantine Empire
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Many factors of Roman civilization had been weakened
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Western Europe
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Cities began to fall apart and decay
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Western Europe
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Fragmented, decentralized, and competitive, quite the opposite of the other thing.
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Western Europe
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They gradually (over centuries) became Christian, and they were very Romanized in religion still, centered on the Pope and independence from political authorities
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Western Europe
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Much more rural than the other one but after 1000, emerged as a dynamic civilization.
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Western Europe
