THE YEAR 1000: THE END OF THE WORLD
1. Vikings…
2. Gypsies…
3. Mixtecs…
4. Chinese Gunpowder…
5. Christendom…
1. Vikings…
The Norse Saga of Bjarni Herjulfsson
…inspires
Leif Erikson (son of Eric
the Red)
What was the biggest impediment to uniting
England? Wicingas.
…Olaf Trygvasson
English preacher just before 1000:
“For so veiled by secrecy is the end of
days that no one in the entire world, no matter how holy, nor even anyone in
heaven, except for the Lord alone, has ever known when it will come. The end
cannot be long delayed. Only the coming of the accursed stranger, Antichrist,
who is yet to appear on the face of the earth, is still awaited. Otherwise, all
the signs and forewarning that our Lord told us would herald Doomsday have come
to pass.”
2. Gypsies…
From Rajasthan,
India
3. Mixtecs
Lord Eight Deer "Jaguar Claw" was ruler of the
Tilantongo and brought in the Tututepec…that unification of Mixtec power is
recounted in the codices
4. Chinese Gunpowder…
Saltpeter (potassium nitrate) + sulfur + charcoal=
During the experiments, "smoke and flames result, so
that the scientists' hands and faces have been burnt, and even the whole house
where they
were working burned down."
First use of gunpowder in war: against the Mongols.
How would the world be different without this one invention?
5. Christendom…
Revelations…
Rome as a “whore.”
Printed on Rome’s forehead:
“Babylon the great, mother of
harlots, and of earth’s abominations.”
John’s revelation predicts the
end of the world and that “the hour is near.”
King Louis IV
Gerberga
Adso
Magdeberg
Otto on verge of attack: “For who are we to submit to such
an enemy, we who should blush at the idea, we who are lords of almost all of
Europe.”
Beheading of Stoinef…
John XII…then John XIII
962=Holy Roman Empire
Romuald…(the green)
Conossa
Henry IV’s son: “The heavens are the Lord’s heavens, but the
earth he has given to the sons of men.”
THE FIRST CRUSADE
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