Identifier: modernhistoryeur00west (find matches)
Title: Modern history; Europe
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: West, Willis Mason, 1857- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Boston, Allyn and Bacon
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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102 AGE OF THE CRUSADES, 1100-1300. (§91 and comforts, — its paved and lighted streets, its schools andtheaters, its orderly police system, its hospitals and parks, —were all new features to the few visitors from the West. Suchtrade as Western Europe possessed, was mainly in Greekhands; and the Byzant, the coin of Constantinople, was thestandard of coinage over Europe. During most of its history, the Empire comprised the greaterpart of Asia Minor, many islands, and at least the coast regionsof the Balkan peninsula in Europe. The more distant partsof that peninsula were divided between two Slav peoples, theServians and the Bulgarians.1 These peoples were sometimestributaries, sometimes foes, of Constantinople, but from thatsource, they, like the Russians, had drawn their Christianityand civilization. 91. Appearance of the Turks. — In the eleventh century, thecivilization of the Saracens received a fatal blow, and theexistence of the Greek Empire was endangered. Politicalsupremac

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