The 1000s /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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San Diego, Calif. :
Greenhaven Press,
[2001]
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| Series: | Headlines in history (San Diego, Calif.)
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Table of Contents:
- Awaiting the Apocalypse
- Rise of feudalism
- Peace of God movement
- Truce of God for the diocese of cologne
- Papal reform
- Investiture controversy
- Limitations of royal authority
- Norman conquest
- William the conqueror's claim to the english throne
- Normans in Italy and Sicily
- Chapter 2
- Viking discovery of North America
- Relations with the native Americans
- Iceland's conversion to christianity
- Viking rulers of England
- End of the viking age
- Chapter 3
- Origin of the first crusade
- Pope Urban's call for the first crusade
- Speech at clermont
- Peasants' crusade
- Byzantine's view of the first crusaders
- Victory and atrocities: Conquest of Jerusalem
- Muslim perspective on the first crusade
- Chapter 4
- Turks' rise to power
- Reign of the mad caliph
- Culture and society of Muslim Spain
- Battles between the spanish christians and muslims
- Terms of surrender: El Cid at valencia
- Muslim dominion in India
- Golden age of the kingdom of Ghana
- Chapter 5
- Life in China during the early sung dynasty
- Economic reform and trade development
- Importance of the intellectual class
- Proposals for the training and selection of government officials
- Priting's contribution to literacy and education
- Growth of a native culture i Japan
- Murasaki Shikibu's literacy achievement
- Art of storytelling
- Chapter 6
- Toltecs of Mexico
- Toltec conquest of the maya
- Anasazi culture at its height
- Were the anasazi cannibals
- Mound builders of Cahokia.