Aim: to what extent did Classical Rome have an influence on Europe during the Middle Ages?

Aim: to what extent did Classical Rome

have an influence on Europe during the

Middle Ages?

CarthageGreece

Rome

Germanic Invaders Eastern

Roman Empire aka

the Byzantine Empire

Islamic Caliphate

UmayyadEmirate

Abbassid Emirate

CarolingianEmpire

VikingsKievan Rus

Vikings

Turks

MONGOLS

• The quick’ish review is over.

• Now onto the image analysis.

• You are going to look at images of four “barbarian” kings.

What religion did

Charlemagne adhere to?

(9th Century

CE / AD)

How about…?

… Otto the Great of

Germany?

(936 – 973AD)

And…

Great, great, great, grandson of Charlemagne

and great, great, great, great grandfather

of Henry IV of Germany

Oleg (and Igor) of Kievan Rus (9th -10th Century AD)

Why are these three kings of “barbarian” peoples all good

examples of

cultural diffusion?

Their tribes / nations all converted to Christianity after migrating into lands influenced by the cultural remnants of the Roman Empire.

Aim: to what extent did Classical Rome

have an influence on Europe during the

Middle Ages?

395 CE

Orthodox

Christianity

Catholicism

(and

Protestantism after 1600CE)

Islam 711 until 1492

Islam

Islam

What is the connection between the Roman Empire and the spread of Christianity? Look at location.

Now, to analyze

something new…..

Languages of the Roman Empire

• The two most widely spoken languages of the Roman empire were

• Latin and

• Greek• The Byzantines used Greek after the fall of

the Western Roman Empire.

Latin Alphabet

A B C D E F G H

I J K L M N O P

Q R S T U V W X

Y Z

Established evidence.

Where are Cyrillic and the Latin alphabets used?

Cyrillic Alphabet

Used by Russian, Bulgarian, and several

other Slavic languages

Notice any similarities to any other alphabets?

Latin Alphabet

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Where are Cyrillic and the Latin alphabets used?

Gothic AlphabetDoes this alphabet look familiar?

Latin Alphabet

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Gothic Alphabet

Where are Cyrillic and the Latin alphabets used?

Can you name any modern languages that have evolved out of any of the languages spoken within

the Roman Empire?

Spanish

French

Romanian

ItalianPortuguese

(Modern) Greek

Galician

Catalan

• A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Language Map

Fin

Aim: to what extent is Gothic Architecture a reflection of Western

Roman influence?

Aim: To what extent did Classical Rome

have an influence on Europe during the

Middle Ages?

Aim: to what extent did Roman engineering have an impact on Medieval religious

architecture?

Eastern Rome

Eastern Roman Empire

aka the Byzantine Empire after

476CE.

Eastern Europe.

How about (Church) Architecture?

Hagia Sophia

St. Sophias in Novgorod, Russia.

St. Basils

in

Moscow

Western Rome

The Western Roman Empire

Think; Western Europe.

Romanesque Architecture

Gothic Architecture and

Engineering

Cologne Cathedral, Germany.

Gothic Architecture ►

• A flying buttress is a free-standing buttress attached to the main structure by an arch or a half-arch. It reinforces and stabilizes the walls of the entire structure allowing the builders to include larger windows.

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Canterbury Cathedral, England.

Roman Culture (East and or West) had an impact on the Middle Ages in the following

ways:

• Religion• Language and or • Alphabets and • Architecture• (Even more) Patriarchal and

Classist

Examples ?

• However, Western Europe, outside of Umayyad Spain, and Eastern Europe outside of the Byzantine Empire, did not generally benefit from Greek and Roman

(What is missing?)

• philosophy, art, literature and science

• until the latter Middle Ages, the dawn of the Renaissance.

Aim: To what extent did Classical Rome

have an influence on Europe during the

Middle Ages?

ByzantineEmpire

Islamic Caliphate

UmayyadEmirate

CarolingianEmpire

“Germany” Holy

Roman Empire

VikingsKievan Rus

Turks

Fin

“Roman and then Byzantine Empires” 5th Century CE / AD

RomeGermanic Invaders

Eastern Roman Empire / aka the

Byzantine Empire

Islamic Caliphate

Carolingian Empire

Seljuk Turks And

Ottoman Turks

MONGOLS

Vikings

Orthodox

Christianity

Catholicism

(and

Protestantism after 1600CE)

Islam 711 until 1492

Islam

Islam

What is the connection between the Roman Empire and the spread of Christianity? Look at location.