today we will talk about the Dark Ages, the period between 600 and 1450 CE is often called the Middle Ages in Europe because it came in the middle of the Roman Empire - presumably forgotten by the Byzantines - and the beginning of the Modern Age. And it is sometimes called the Dark Ages, because it was thought to be illuminated. But were the years so dark? It depends on what you find stressful. If you love cities and beautiful poetry, then the Dark Ages were really dark in Europe. But if, like me, your two loved ones do not die in wars and do not die at all, the Dark Ages were not really so bad — at least until the plague of the 14th century. And in that time, outside of Europe, the Dark Ages really was the Age of Enlightenment. Let's go to the Thought of Thought. Ancient Europe had fewer trade, fewer cities, and less cultural influence than the First Roman Empire. London and Paris were polluted fire extinguishers without a sewage control system in 5,000-year-old areas such as Mohenjo Daroin the Indus Valley Civilization, not to mention Rome. But with so few powerful governments, so few wars, which is one reason why Europeans living in the Middle Ages— Uhh THOUGHT BUBBLE DIDN'T KNOW HE WOULD DO THAT. However, the people of the Medieval Times lived a little longer - the life span was 30 - than the Europeans during the Roman Empire - when the life span was 28. Instead of central government, Europe in the Middle Ages had feudalism, an apolitical system based on equal relations between kings, landowners, and nobles, who defended the land and dressed as heroes to pledge allegiance to kings. Kings were also servants of the most important kings, and the most important was the king.
Beneath the knights were peasants who did real work around the world to protect themselves from looters and other threats. Feudalism was also an economic system, where farmers worked the land and stored some of their produce to feed themselves while others gave the landowner the land they were working on. The small, natural environment of the feudal system was appropriate for a time and place when human security threats were small and local. However, this plan reinforces the status quo - there is little freedom and no movement in society at all: Farmers will never work their way to the kings, and they will probably never leave their villages. Thanks, Bubble Thoughts. Another very interesting point from the point of view of the history of the world: this transfer of empire to a place has taken place in many places at many different times. And in times of extreme political stress, such as after the fall of the Han dynasty in China, power often flowed into the hands of local chiefs who were able to protect farmers better than the empire. We hear this much in the history of China and Afghanistan at that time, but instead of being called kings, these landlords are called military commanders.
Eurocentrism strikes again. Another reason why the Dark Ages are called Dark is because Europe was dominated by superstition and tedious religious debates about how many angels could enter the peacock's head. And while there is something to it, the Middle Ages also saw theologians such as Thomas Aquinas, a very important philosopher, and women like Hildegard of Bilgen, who wrote all this important music for worship services and developed a moral code. All noted, things were more prominent in the Islamic world, or Dar al Islam. So when we finally left the Muslims, they had spread out their homeland in Arabia and conquered the wealthy Egyptian provinces of Byzantium and the whole Sassaniane Empire, all within 100 years. The Umayyad Dynasty then expanded the western empire of Spain and relocated the capital to Damascus, because it was close to action, the empire intact but still in Arabia. That was really important to the Umayyads because they had established this position in the empire with the Arabs as their superiors and were actually trying to prevent the Arabs from associating with non-Arab Muslims throughout the Empire. This annoyed non-Arab Muslims, who said, "I do not know if you are reading the same Quran as we do, but this one says we should all be equal." And soon most of the Muslims were not Arabs, which made it much easier for them to overthrow the Umayyads, which they did in 750 CE.
Replacement of them, Abb (ah) sids, Abb (uh) sids? Hold on ... D’ahh, I’m twice right! That's right, so the Abbasids came from the family of Abb (ah) si orthe Abb (uh) - they came from the East and as a result many of the Persian provinces of the Islamic State. The Abbasids took power in 750 and no one could fully defeat them - until 1258, when they were defeated - waiting - the Mongols. The Abbasids retain the idea of a hereditary king
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