NEAREAST 207 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Pope Urban Ii, Feudalism, Church Of The Holy Sepulchre
5 Jan 2017
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Central and southern europe was primarily controlled by barbarian tribes. Religious leader of europe was the pope, centered in rome. Political leaders were spread out among kingdoms. Eastern europe was still controlled by the byzantine empire. Middle east and north africa was controlled by islamic kingdoms. False: the christians wanted to free the holy land from the infidels . Seljuk turks were tribes from central asia. Moved to turkey and fought constant warfare against the byzantines. Manzikert battle (1071): seljuk turks defeated the byzantine empire. Tries to get european help to push back the seljuks and prevent defeat. Pope always wanted east and west christianity to get along. Saw this as an opportunity to gain power over both spheres of christianity. The pope also saw feudalism as a mess in central europe. In feudalism, only people at the top had rights. The rest were serfs with no rights, were human property.
