lecture slides

1. The Early Middle Ages:
Europeans and Invasions
Lisa M. Lane
History 103

2. Abbassid Caliphate
• mathematics
• Ibn Sina (Avicenna) and
Aristotle’s works
• astronomy and the astrolabe:
the first computer, a “tool of the
devil”

3. http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/shepherd_1911/shepherd-c-057.jpg

4. The Barbarian Contribution
market towns, agricultural growth,
knights in armor, Gothic cathedrals,
Jewish merchants, industrial water power

5. The Cross-Cultural Ninth Century
• Abbassid Caliphate
• Viking Invasions
• Byzantium and Russia
Invasions:
from the
N: Vikings
E: Magyars
S: Saracens
http://www.coloradocollege.edu/Dept/HY/Ashley/hy105/Map_-
_Viking_Islam__Magyar_Invasions_to_11C.JPG

6. Viking invasions

7. Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (9th c)

8. Byzantium and Russia
St Cyril, c. 860