. Nineteen Christian centuries in outline. A guide to historical study for home reading and literary clubs. Empire is made elective byOtho in. 997. Venice and Genoa establish a flourishing 230 NINETEEN CHRISTIAN CENTURIES IN OUTLINE. trade between Asia and Western Europe. SultanMahmud adds parts of India to his dominions. Hepatronizes literature. 999. The Christians numbered at 50,000,000. IX. PROGRAMME FOR AN EVENINGs ENTERTAINMENTAND INSTRUCTION IN HISTORY. 1. Music. 2. Characteristics of this age. 3. Succession and characters of the Greek Em-perors of Constantinople (Gibbon chap. 48). 4. Li
. Nineteen Christian centuries in outline. A guide to historical study for home reading and literary clubs. Empire is made elective byOtho in. 997. Venice and Genoa establish a flourishing 230 NINETEEN CHRISTIAN CENTURIES IN OUTLINE. trade between Asia and Western Europe. SultanMahmud adds parts of India to his dominions. Hepatronizes literature. 999. The Christians numbered at 50,000,000. IX. PROGRAMME FOR AN EVENINGs ENTERTAINMENTAND INSTRUCTION IN HISTORY. 1. Music. 2. Characteristics of this age. 3. Succession and characters of the Greek Em-perors of Constantinople (Gibbon chap. 48). 4. Life of Otho the Great of Germany. t;. Mohammed Ben Musa, the Mathematician, andhis connection with Algebra. 6. An outline history of England during thiscentury. 7. An outline history of intermission. 8. Music. 9. State of Pilgrimage to Jerusalem under theFatimite Caliphs (Gibbon chap. 57). 10. An outline history of Italy. 11. History of the French language—its relation-ships and peculiarities. 12. An outline history of Germany. 13. The Progress of Free Cities and Commerce. 14. Music. .^,. CHAPTER XVII. THE ELEVENTH CENTURY. I. A BRIEF GLANCE AT THE WORLD. THE Eastern and Western Churches are hope-lessly sundered by continued debates and ex-communications. The Norman race complete theirascendancy in France, the south of Italy, Sicily, andEngland. The supremacy of the Holy See was car-ried to its highest pitch by Gregory VII. The great-ness of his power is seen in the excommunication andhumiliation of Henry IV., Emperor of Germany, whowas obliged to submit to, and undergo severe seat of Arabian and Jewish learning is still inSpain, but Seville becomes more famous than Christians of Spain enlarge their power and gainimportant victories over the Mohammedans. Russia,under Waldemir the Great, begins to flourish. TheGreek Empire, in its contests with the Normans andthe Turks, declines in power. The Seljukian Turksbecome Moslem, and invade and co
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