Years 1140

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Events

  • German Colonization in the east of the Holy roman Empire ( Drang nach Osten ).

Economy & company

  • the devastations of the crusades accelerated the rural migration in Syria: the holders of the Iqtâ , having only one temporary pleasure their fields, give up the campaigns without protecting their peasants. Aldine Nur AD-DIN then Salah adopts the system of the hereditary iqtâ. Ensured to be able to transmit its field, the muqta' (titular of a iqtâ ) is concerned with its development and protects the peasants. Left the area of Damas, a movement of handing-over in culture of the waste lands gets along, in second half of the century, with the whole of the emirate zangide, then ayyubide. The demography and the prices of the foodstuffs increase in Syria.
  • the practice of the hereditary iqtâ gives birth in the area syro-mésopotamienne to a stable land aristocracy and involves an increased constraint of the social classes.

  • Nur AD-DIN founds with Alep and to Damas a “house of justice”, left high court of the abuses which it chairs. It founds also a dar Al Hadith to start again the study of the tradition and founds the hanaqah , kind of convent for the are enough, at the same time religious center and hotel trade. It makes build many hospitals.

Significant characters

  • Bernard de Morlaix or Bernard of Cluny, monk of Cluny author of Of contemptu mundi .

Inventions, discoveries, introductions

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