Dark Ages
Essay by Woxman • August 2, 2011 • Essay • 880 Words (4 Pages) • 1,872 Views
1. Violence was shocking
2. Homicides, 1/100 murderers was brought to justice
3. People knew death was the penalty for a crime, but didn't let it stop them
4. Religious disputes and tensions between paganism and Christianity
5. Purity, "men's way of life vs. gods way of life"
6. Man's decisions determine where he spends eternity
7. Fight for power
8. Aristocrats vs. crown holders
9. The willingness to lead
10. Paganism took over Christianity (infiltrated, subverted) it was supposed to destroy
11. Pagan ideas, rituals, and customs were weaved into the Christian faith
12. Saints became popular, replicas were wanted
13. New traditions were adopted(burning of candles)
14. Leo III defended Christianity to a huge extent
15. Was a target
16. Christian art was restored because it reflected ancient heritage
17. Medieval world-no high cultural or technological development
18. Rome reached great standards, romans achieved many things
19. Age that followed was not as accomplished
20. Pirates blocked sea routes
21. People were not fed...etc...bad living conditions
22. Strong, healthy, shrewd, handsome, beautiful, and lucky flourished
23. Europe under aristocracy, noble
24. Most nobles proved themselves in battle
25. Titles evolved, duke, count, baron, or marquis
26. Lowest-knight, became knight
27. Royalty was invested with glory
28. King, lord of men
29. Praised
30. Office went from descent to election?
31. Sovereigns, supreme ruler, seeked freedom from the Vatican
32. "outside the church there is no salvation"
33. "holy see"-the see of Rome,, the office of jurisdiction of the pope, the papal court
34. "The church is the work of an incarnate God like all God's works, it is perfect. It is therefore incapable of reform.
35. Medieval mind, man's total lack of ego
36. No true identity, go by just a name they pick up
37. No awareness of time
38. Once churches grew strong and centralized, knighthood started dying
39. The knightly way of life was no longer practical
40. Soldiers were well armed and trained better than knights...1300-1400ish
41. A.D. 1500, most sovereign dynasties were in place
42. A force strengthened by emerging feelings of national among the masses was reshaping Europe
43. A.D. 1300 Europe started to rebuild
44. Papacy, office of the pope
45. Classes emerged
46. Rebirth of education and learning
47. Renaissance=rebirth
48. Began around early 1400s
49. Most influential renaissance men were writers, scholars, philosophers, educators, statesmen, and independent theologians.
PART 2, THE SHATTERING..
50. Magellan, mightiest explorer of history
51. Very pious and modest
52. Assumed that the Madonna (virgin Mary) was responsible for his accomplishments
53. Spanish
54. Sailed around the world
55. RELIGIOUS REVOLUTION, split Christendom and signaled an end to the medieval world
56. Carlos I commissioned Magellan to go west and claim Spanish possession of an archipelago in hands of rival, Manvel I of Portugal
57. Were spice islands
58. Were considered priceless
59. 2 became Magellan's
60. Would receive 5% of profit from archipelago
61. Magellan was killed before he could ever reach there
62. He landed in Philippines, went around the world, discovered a straight
63. Some people declared his expedition a myth and "impossible"
64. Francis Drake
65. Intensions
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