I reviewed many sources but school (private, public, and home school) books ignore (for the most part) everything that happened. And a lot happened there. The only sources are the wikipedia and different encyclopaedias (Mostly online). Or am I wrong, if so where would be a good place to find this information?
2006-12-06 05:29:40 · 5 answers · asked by Vuk Bronkovic 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
The ignorance is due to so much happening. The names are long, and to those of us in the west, hard to pronounce. Control was always changing and the countries coalesced and then broke apart. We even got the word Balkanization from there. That area is a study on its own.
The best place to start is wikipedia.
2006-12-06 05:51:44 · answer #1 · answered by Elizabeth Howard 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not quite sure myself. When I was studying history I had similar qualms about the completeness of our pictures--speaking of which, we know far, far more about Byzantine art and architecture. The Khazar's are another pivotal but forgotten people that historically saved europe's bacon more than a few times (pun intended, it was a nation that adopted Judaism in contrast to its Christian neighbors, Byzantines, to the west and the Islamics below them).
See if you have these available:
2006-12-06 05:52:55 · answer #2 · answered by Rabbit 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Try your local library and ask the reference desk for some help. There is a lot of information on this interesting part of the world. You may need to dig a little harder tho compared to Greek or Roman history. Good luck!
2006-12-06 05:40:48 · answer #3 · answered by Jay Are 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you like reading, I can recommend The History of Byzantium by John Julius Norwich. Superb history. Three volumes, though, so it takes a bit of dedication.
2006-12-06 10:53:38 · answer #4 · answered by iansand 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go to questia.com. They have loads of books and articles on a variety of subjects.
2006-12-06 05:31:43 · answer #5 · answered by Casey D 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋