The Emergence of the Middle Ages: 1000 AD
When the Old World Order began to crumble with the fall of the Roman Empire and the break up of
the Mediterranean the foundation was laid for a new type of civilization to emerge, a “western
civilization”.
The Empire in the East continued, based in Constantinople.. It was the most obvious heir to the culture
of the classical world. This culture still dominates Eastern Europe and Russia, through Orthodoxy.
Islam was the religion of Arab townsmen. Led by Mohammad (d. c. 640, Hijira 622). They swept out
of the Arabian Peninsula. [Lacey, 174] They eventually took control of all North Africa, Egypt,
Anatolia (under the Turks) and for a time Spain. Islam is also is an heir to Classical civilization. It
gleamed mathematics from Mesopotamia, Philosophy from the Greeks and Monotheism from the
Jews. For almost a thousand years Muslims were by all objective standards more advanced than
Western Europe
Finally, Barbarians and......
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