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Unformatted text preview: Sergius - Heraclius' Patriarch of Constantinople. Supported emperor with Church and funds. Maintained capital's morale during Sassanian-Avar siege. Razates - Replacement Persian general after Shahr-Baraz was killed in 627. Kava Siroe - After Chosroes II committed suicide, he became Shah. Was killed. Henri Pirenne - Belgian socio-economic historian, tried to revise the view that the Barbarian migrations spelled the doom of the Antique in Europe. According to him, one had to look elsewhere, and later, for the decomposition of Mediterranean civilization based on long-distance commerce and high culture. For him, the cause of Mediterranean dissolution was the Islamic expansion, which brought a war-like band of Arabs into domination of the trade routes. Not at all inclined towards trade, they strangled the Mediterranean basin, ushering in the impoverished...
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This note was uploaded on 12/11/2011 for the course HIST 1320 taught by Professor Murphy during the Fall '08 term at Texas State.
- Fall '08