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Islam versus Orthodox Christianity
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Eastern Europe is NOT like Western Europe |
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Orthodox Christianity is NOT like Western Christianity |
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Spread of Humans
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Spread of humans from North Africa around the world
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Alexander the Great's Empire
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Alexander the Great's empire at his death in 323 BC
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The most remarkable warrior in world history |
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Spread Greek culture and language through the entire region |
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Roman Empire
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Roman Empire at its peak, 120AD
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In 285, administratively split into easter and western region |
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Western Roman Empire collapsed in 476 |
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Byzantine Empire
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Byzantine Empire at its peak, 600AD
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Byzantine Empire the last remnant of Roman Empire |
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Roman Empire in the West had been destroyed |
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Centered in city of Byzantium, later called Constantinople |
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Pope and Catholicism remained in the West |
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Catholic religion became stateless |
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Major doctrinal differences developed |
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Orthodox churches still exist in Africa today |
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Spread of Islam after Mohammed
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Byzantine and Islamic Empires, 750
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Islam spread like wildfire |
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Doctrinal issues: Quran vs Sunna |
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Sunna are habitual behaviors, published long after death |
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Split in Sunnism vs Shi'ism |
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Slavs and Seljuk Turks
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Arrival of Seljuk Turks and spread of Orthodox Christianity to Slavs
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In 1000, both Islam and Orthodox Christianity were threatened with extinction |
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Seljuk Turks from Central Asia adopted Islam |
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988 - Vladimar adopted Orthodox Christianity for Slavs |
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Catholics sack Constantinople in 1204 |
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Slavs moved east and formed Russian Empire |
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Ottoman Empire and Fall of Constantinople
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Eastern Europe in 1600 AD
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Rise of Ottoman Empire |
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1300 - Turkish Muslim tribal chief Osman started to expand |
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1453 - Fall of Constantinople - renamed Istanbul |
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Russia assumes a new role |
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Moscow took on the mantle of the true heir to the Roman Empire |
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Russian leader is Tsar (or Czar) named after Caesar |
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Tsar is also head of the true ("Orthodox") Christian Church |
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Tsar is also protector of Jerusalem |
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Orthodox Christianity is not a stateless religion |
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Russia vs Ottoman Crisis Wars |
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Russian war with Ottomans, 1672-83 |
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Impact of World War I
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Triggered by crisis war in the Balkans in 1910s |
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Germany pulled into war because of treaty with Austria |
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Balkans war replayed in the 1990s |
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Bolshevik Revolution, 1917 |
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Russia abandons role in World War I |
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Communist state -- repudiation of Tsarist government |
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Godless state - repudiation of Russian Orthodox Church |
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Repudiation of role as protector of Jerusalem |
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Stalin/Trotsky civil war - tens of millions murdered |
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Collapse of Ottoman Empire |
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Young Turks - Rise of Turkish identity (vs Ottoman identity) |
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Abolition of the Sunni Muslim Caliphate |
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Rise of Zionism |
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1917 - Balfour declaration calls for state of Israel |
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1930s - Nazi persecution - Jewish migration to Palestine |
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1936 - Jewish-Arab conflict begins |
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1948 - Partitioning of Palestine - state of Israel - full scale regional crisis war |
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Eastern Europe / Western Asia today
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Eastern Europe / Western Asia
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Fault line conflict regions |
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Western and Eastern European Timelines
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Crisis war timelines for Western Europe and for Orthodox Christianity vs Muslim Civilizations
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