Falling in love with Argentina Part 1
Unlike Europe, which has become sort of impossible to visit unless you’re a truly rich person; Buenos Aires, and Argentina in general, have become a brilliant alternative to great cultural and social trips.
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Constantinople
Location: Where Europe and Asia meet.
Geography: it’s on a Peninsula, between the Sea of Marmara and the black seas.
Culture: It’s true that they were heir to Roman power and its traditions along with having Roman rulers, but it was oh so much more than their carbon copy.
They went back to the ways of old Greece and eventually replaced Latin with Greek. They even developed a new form of religion called Eastern orthodoxy. They even added Persian culture into the mixture. Thusly, between 500 A.D. and 1200 A.D. this culture rich civilization became highly advanced and had a better quality of life than the Western Europeans
Art
Religion based murals and icons covered every inch of churches especially mosaics not very realistic very stiff
Made great religious architecture like the Hagia Sophia has a huge dome and is a gigantic building made in about 6 years
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Were held as heroes and seen to be quite wise by the Byzantium people. To their enemies they were evil, irrational, religious tyrants. Even to some Byzantium people, like Procopius, they seemed ruthless
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After the death of Justinian empire began to go down hill till eventually taken over by the Ottoman turks
Religion
Not only was their controversy between pagan Rome and Roman catholic but also between Roman catholic and Eastern orthodox
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Eurasia was a primo spot cause it was fertile and great for trading which attracted many types of people, like the Vikings. Cities like Kiev and Novgorod popped up along these Viking trade routes, Novgorod was taken over by Rurik and the Rus eventually even Kiev and soon the whole region. This gave the power over the important trade route.
Kievan Russia’s government was led by the combined power and cooperation of princes, nobles, and the heads of households. Yaroslav I ruled during a great time in Kievan Russia, 1019 A.D. to 1054 A.D.. He built lots of churches and introduced Pravda Russkia, their first law code.
Vladimir I had a big hand in converting his people to Orthodox Christianity. Not only was he impressed and inspired by the Hagia Sophia, but he also wanted to marry the Byzantine emperors sister Ana. When he converted he forced his people to do the same. Religon soon dominated the culture, they became known for their icon painting.
The agriculture of the steppe and taiga are what made their economy.
Their class system was: local princes and their families, followed by boyars or nobles, next came artisans and merchants in the trade business, then the largest yet lowest group, the peasants.
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3/27/2007 |
| Irena Knehtl |
Thank you for your great articles on Argentina.
Do keep it up. |
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