这篇描述中世纪的文章最后是如此总结的:“人们总是没有兴趣去探索周围的世界(People were not as curious about the world around them),这就是为什么中世纪有时被称为黑暗时代。等到了文艺复兴时期,这一切才发生了变化。因此,中世纪是一个黑暗的旧时代,而文艺复兴是新时代的光明曙光。”(ReadWorks 2012)这样的说法...
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In a number of letters written to Sergius I, patriarch of Constantinople, and several other individuals, Honorius officially promoted the heresy of monotheletism, which teaches that Christ had only one will, the divine. The orthodox position was that Christ, though one person, possesses two ...
This lesson will talk about the Pax Romana, a long period of peace that started at the beginning of the Roman Empire and lasted into the third century C.E. Augustus, who initiated the Pax Romana A Definition A simple translation ofPax Romanais Roman peace. It sounds kind of arrogant, and...
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It was a period of instability. The Crusaders conquered Constantinople and divided the Byzantine Empire into two smaller empires. At the same time, the first raids of the Seljuk Turks began. During these wars, many of the ancient cities got into decline, were destroyed or their inhabitants star...
When were the peak years of the Silk Road trade? The peak years of the Silk Road trade were between 500 and 800 C.E., after the fall of the Han dynasty and Constantinople replaced Rome as the center of the Roman empire. The Tang dynasty stationed troops in Central Asia and many...