No, Byzantine cultural influence was always limited in the Western Christian World. That's why renaissance arts were not really influenced by Byzantine Empire. The Western Roman architecture influenced it, which was very different from the Asian influenced post-classical era Byzantine arts.
Wrong. Byzantine material culture (production tools, buildings and housing of the population , the clothes foods, artistic taste) remained closer to near-eastern and North African countries than to Western Christian Western European countries. Even the average Byzantine households of common people were resembled to Near Eastern and North African cities. Even their cloting was very similar to Near Eastern and North African clothing, the only difference was the lack or Turban in Byzantine Empire.
The differences were sharp in development of institutions and politics, in societal development, artistic development (architecture, sculpture painting visual arts) clothes and fashion, in science and technology, in economic development. Orthodox world was a different civilization.
Just try to say for Czech or Pole, that they are have similar culture as Russians or Ukrainians, they will interpret it as a brutal provocation (And they have right in this case)
"Slavs are close relatives to Germans, Baltics, and Nordics"
Again you lumped together all slavic speaking countries. Czech Poles had close cultural relationship with Germans, but ukrainians and Russian people hadn't. Some commercial relationship did not bring automatically distincts culture closer. Otherwise if we follow your false logic, the the big colonial Empires Like France UK and smaller countries like benelux states would have been African or Asian culture.
No, I don't believe it. You are some Russian descendent Orthodox beliver who was born in the USA. Otherwise , why would you propagate the history fantasy of an average Russian skinhead?
Protestantism is closer to Catholicism (even in theological aspects) than Orthodoxy. No wonder, since Protestantism developed from Catholicism. Read this article: Western Christianity - Wikipedia
This similarity exist only in your mind. There is paractically close to zero relationship of pre-christian era culture in Slavic and Germanic speaking countries. Slavic remained nothing more than a linguistic group. The weakened chunks of pre-christian era "common Slavic" culture remained in some degree only until the high middle-ages.
Wrong. Byzantine material culture (production tools, buildings and housing of the population , the clothes foods, artistic taste) remained closer to near-eastern and North African countries than to Western Christian Western European countries. Even the average Byzantine households of common people were resembled to Near Eastern and North African cities. Even their cloting was very similar to Near Eastern and North African clothing, the only difference was the lack or Turban in Byzantine Empire.
The differences were sharp in development of institutions and politics, in societal development, artistic development (architecture, sculpture painting visual arts) clothes and fashion, in science and technology, in economic development. Orthodox world was a different civilization.
Just try to say for Czech or Pole, that they are have similar culture as Russians or Ukrainians, they will interpret it as a brutal provocation (And they have right in this case)
"Slavs are close relatives to Germans, Baltics, and Nordics"
Again you lumped together all slavic speaking countries. Czech Poles had close cultural relationship with Germans, but ukrainians and Russian people hadn't. Some commercial relationship did not bring automatically distincts culture closer. Otherwise if we follow your false logic, the the big colonial Empires Like France UK and smaller countries like benelux states would have been African or Asian culture.
No, I don't believe it. You are some Russian descendent Orthodox beliver who was born in the USA. Otherwise , why would you propagate the history fantasy of an average Russian skinhead?
Protestantism is closer to Catholicism (even in theological aspects) than Orthodoxy. No wonder, since Protestantism developed from Catholicism. Read this article: Western Christianity - Wikipedia
This similarity exist only in your mind. There is paractically close to zero relationship of pre-christian era culture in Slavic and Germanic speaking countries. Slavic remained nothing more than a linguistic group. The weakened chunks of pre-christian era "common Slavic" culture remained in some degree only until the high middle-ages.
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The physical tectonic plates that make up the earth's surface are distinct from the ways geographers have chosen to define land masses. You could argue there are only three continents since North and South America are naturally joined as are Europe, Asia and Africa. Antarctica would be the third. Australia could be considered too small to be a continent.
The names of the continent were created when people did not know much about geology, and is traditional.
You are a teacher? No wonder schools are in such bad shape.
We use the word Europe because it is traditional, long before Europeans went around conquering. It is a very useful term because the continent designated an area of distinctive cultural, floral, and fauna. And given all the flak about demoting Pluto as a planet after just 70 years, demoting Europe as s continent after thousands of years isn't going to fly.
The Europeans weren't the only conquerors long before they established their empires the Asisn Assyrians were establishing brutal empires. The Mongols were as brutal as any European empire at its worst, and Asians like Timerlane were as ruthless as any in history. If you are a teacher, since you mention your students, it is little wonder why so many steps increasingly home schooling their kids. You seem total ignorant of history. The Mongols devasted Hungary, killing a quarter or more of the population, s devasting the cities of Iran that took centuries to recover. Timerlane slaughter 100,000 civilians in Isfahan alone.
You are a teacher? No wonder schools are in such bad shape.
We use the word Europe because it is traditional, long before Europeans went around conquering. It is a very useful term because the continent designated an area of distinctive cultural, floral, and fauna. And given all the flak about demoting Pluto as a planet after just 70 years, demoting Europe as s continent after thousands of years isn't going to fly.
The Europeans weren't the only conquerors long before they established their empires the Asisn Assyrians were establishing brutal empires. The Mongols were as brutal as any European empire at its worst, and Asians like Timerlane were as ruthless as any in history. If you are a teacher, since you mention your students, it is little wonder why so many steps increasingly home schooling their kids. You seem total ignorant of history. The Mongols devasted Hungary, killing a quarter or more of the population, s devasting the cities of Iran that took centuries to recover. Timerlane slaughter 100,000 civilians in Isfahan alone.
And again , the names are conventional , dating from a time when only people mattered and how to get there
the continents were descriptive notions of travel for Greeks
Asia was East of the Agean , Africa the south coast of the Mediterranean , Europa the land to the West
America did not exist and was later identified by travellers
the continents were descriptive notions of travel for Greeks
Asia was East of the Agean , Africa the south coast of the Mediterranean , Europa the land to the West
America did not exist and was later identified by travellers
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