Abbasids

2 08, 2017

Early Medieval Italy

By |2019-10-09T07:32:17-07:00August 2nd, 2017|History, Medieval|Comments Off on Early Medieval Italy

Early medieval Italy: Lombard shield boss (to make spears slide off it) (Metropolitan Museum, New York) Northern Italy and France In 774 AD, Charlemagne conquered northern Italy from the Lombards. Soon after that [...]

2 08, 2017

Nicephorus and Leo – Byzantine history

By |2018-04-15T16:50:55-07:00August 2nd, 2017|History, Medieval|Comments Off on Nicephorus and Leo – Byzantine history

Maybe the skull cup was something like this? Nicephorus deposed the Empress Irene in 802 AD and made himself emperor. He refused to pay tribute to the Islamic caliph, and therefore lost still more Roman [...]

1 08, 2017

Basil, Zoe, and the Armenian Dynasty

By |2019-11-07T17:01:57-08:00August 1st, 2017|History, Medieval|Comments Off on Basil, Zoe, and the Armenian Dynasty

Basil starts the Armenian Dynasty In 867 AD, Basil killed Bardas and took over as Roman Emperor. That started the Armenian Dynasty. People call it that because of Basil's Armenian ancestors. (Sometimes people call it the Macedonian [...]

25 07, 2017

Seljuk Dynasty – Medieval Islamic history

By |2019-12-06T05:51:52-08:00July 25th, 2017|History, Islam|Comments Off on Seljuk Dynasty – Medieval Islamic history

The Seljuks defeat the Persians (1040 AD) The Seljuks were Turkic nomads from Turkmenistan. They were related to the Uighurs. They entered the Abbasid empire around 950 AD and gradually converted to Sunni Islam. By 1030 AD the Seljuks [...]

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