The PBS Documentary that talks about Martin Luther explains why the church wanted to silence him. The church felt threatened by what Martin Luther was writing about the Pope and the Priests and the Church itself. He wrote about the church's take of power and exploitation of it. He was a very idealistic person and went against the church even though the church was behind him trying to get him for what he had wrote. He was accused of heresy by the church, but that only gave him more desire to keep on challenging the church and its believes, he was willing to die to defend what he had written. Martin Luther's writings were causing revolt around Italy and the Pope decided that excommunication would be the best thing to do to Martin Luther. For Catholics that is the worst punishment that one can get, but this did not scare him he kept on moving along with his writing. He was one of the first person to use the printed press to gain followers in places far from where he was. He did not want to let the church be corrupt and he did not want the people to go and follow them without knowing what was really going on within the church and what the German money was being used for.
The take over by the mongols started out as a blood bath for those that were being conquered, the mongols fought like no other to get what they wanted. They spread around the world very fast and they were feared more than they were respected because of their savage ways of conquering land. The mongols spread around Europe, South, East, Asia, and North Africa. The land was an accessible to travel across and the climate was also good for the travelers from around the steppe. They were used to that it was not hard for them to travel across the mountains. As the empire got bigger and bigger it spread further out in to the continents making them a very successful empire, even though they were very bloody. Even long after the death of Genghis Khan his grandsons spread their empire into other areas of the world.
The Mongols conquered the Chinese, the Egyptians, the Indians, and Western Africa. The many people that they conquered were from many different religions or believes. The Mongols in the beginning started out being Buddhist and tried to fight the Muslims together with the European Catholics who did not want to let Islam thrive. Although the Mongols once wanted to get rid of Islam after a time they themselves gave into the Islamic religion.
The Economic Impact that the Mongols had on western civilization was vast. Although they were very violent and wanted to conquer the entire world they opened up the door for the South, the East, the North and the West to trade. They had great ways of protecting their trade routes, they made it easy for merchants from different places to travel and sell their goods in others places and for them to take back new things that they had acquired on their trips.When the Mongols finally agreed to peace their empire helped the wealth spread across the landmass. Ideas and goods spread around more easily and more freely with the peace of the Mongols. But trade is not the only thing that the Mongols were going to be able to spread across the continents. With so many different people traveling and going to different places so did disease and death. Now although the Mongols were at peace with the people they had conquered the black death was now being spread by the people who traveled to get riches from other places. The black death killed many people
At the sight of the Black death many people now turned to favor the monarchs because they believed them to be potential saviors believed that they had special powers. The black death period was not in all a bad thing because it brought stability to kingdoms and many places like Russia and Persia were able to get rid of the Mongols who had been their commanders for so long. The Ottomans rose after the black death in Anatolia under Turkish dynasty. They gradually came to dominate Byzantium.
Although Christendom and China recovered from the harsh strike of the black death Egypt and Syria did not and the rise of the Muslim world was not as fast as that of other places where the black death had also hit. After this Imperialism was now spreading to different parts of the world where they had never before experienced it. Like the Americas with the Aztecs and the Incas. But this does not mean that the entire world was under Imperialism most of the world remained under kinship or small estates.
Culture was now being spread around the old world between the continents, religion was something that spread very easily and Islam, Christianity, and Buddhism were very common in those day. Many people converted from one religion to another although Islam was in a very small process the religion is one of the religions that is on the rise in modern days. Goods from different parts of the world were being traded and so was the people. The people who traveled and decided to stay to live in a different place were now adopting a new culture. Cultural assimilation was going on all around because people were meeting new people and blood was mixing other blood. Language is also something that can be acquired for people to communicate they had to learn a new language, because not everyone spoke the same language all across the different continents. Mixing of languages like Spanish with Arabic or French is what makes modern day Arabic because these three languages were being used very often in the old world. We must also remember that food plays a major role in survival, cultural diffusion in food is what makes every food so unique, yet so different.
In conclusion although the Mongols were bloody and deathly they came to peace and brought great riches to the world. They opened up the trade routes that made different places rich and opened the door to cultural diffusion. The black death brought misfortune to many people, but this brought stability to the government and it also brought the down fall of the Mongol Empire. Russia broke away from them and so did China, Christendom and the Ottomans conquered their own empire. Culture, Religions, Languages and foods mixed in the midst of all this. We are all a mix of everything our languages have a mix of everything, we are unique in our own way, but we all very alike.
Fernandez- Armesto, Felipe.
(2011) The World.
PBS.
01/06/2010. Martin Luther: Driven to Defiance
Martin Luther: Reluctant Revolutionary.
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