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CHAPTER TIMELINE
Roman Empire
Europe
Diocletian and Constantine
250
Byzantine Empire
Arab Empire
350
Division of the empire
450
550 750
Odoacer deposes Romulus Augustulus
Germanic kingdoms
Benedictine order established
Lombards begin conquest of Italy
Reign of Justinian
ompletion of agia Sophia
Arab defeat of Byzantines at Yarmuk Byzantine losses in the Balkans
Life of Muhammad
Muhammad’s flight to Medina
Muslim entry into Spain
Defeat of Muslims near Poitiers
650
CHAPTER REVIEW
Upon Reflection
Q What role did monks and nuns play in early medieval society?
Q What contributions did the Germanic peoples make to the political, economic, and social conditions of early medieval society?
Key Terms
inflation (p. 148) heresy (p. 149) Arianism (p. 149) wergeld (p. 154) monk (p. 157) monasticism (p. 157) abbot (p. 158)
nuns (p. 158)
Suggestions for Further Reading
GENERAL WORKS ON LATE ANTIQUITY For good intro- ductions to late antiquity, see J. Moorhead, The Roman Empire
Q What impact did Christianity have on the intellectual life of early medieval society?
abbess (p. 160)
liberal arts (p. 162)
trivium (p. 162)
quadrivium (p. 162)
Five Pillars of Islam (p. 167) caliph (p. 168)
jihad (p. 168)
Divided, 400–700 (London, 2001), and J. J. O’Donnell, The Ruin of the Roman Empire: A New History (New York, 2008).
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