Headlines in history the 1000s
Describes the Vikings, first Crusade, expansion of the Islamic empire, Asia's cultural renaissance, and the rise of civilization in America at the turn of the first century.
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San Diego
Greenhaven press
2001
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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
- Viking discovery of North America
- Relations with the native Americans
- Iceland's conversion to Christianity
- Viking rulers of England
- End of the viking age
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Printing's contribution to literacy and education
- Growth of a native culture in Japan
- Murasaki Shikibu's literacy achievement
- Art of storytelling
- Toltecs of Mexico
- Toltec conquest of the Maya
- Anasazi culture at its height
- Were the Anasazi cannibals
- Mound builders of Cahokia.