Differences Between Eastern And Western Empires

Raymond Siuta

Period 2

Throughout the Middle Ages, many different empires were in their development. While one of them, the Islamic empire, began to rise and create its own culture, boundaries, and other aspects, two more regions were in development. These two parts were Eastern & Western Europe. The Eastern & Western European areas are more different than they are similar. In socio-economics, they are different. With respect to political developments, they differ. However, they share some similarities when it comes to religious culture. One of the differences between the two areas are their differences in respect to socio-economic developments. The two sides of Europe had different ways of agriculture for their communities. In Eastern Europe, Russia, subsistence agriculture was the act of growing for oneself, family, or community. However in the

In the East and West, they both had different kinds of successors. In Russia, unigeniture customs were used, while in the West, primogeniture was used instead. This shows how they differ as unigeniture is a succession line where the noble passes land down to all eligible heirs, and that primogeniture was of the noble’s first born son. They also had monarch differences. The West had New Monarchs, and the East had come up with a new title, czar. New Monarchs were European rulers who would unify their specific nations, and create stable governments. While New Monarchs helped control parts of government, a czar was an emperor in Russia. Lastly, the West had more set rules than the East did. In the West, the Great Charter, British Parliament, and Magna Carta all outlined the rules and helped law making. The Magna Carta was the first document that was written saying that the king and his government were not above the law. Throughout all of these differences, Eastern and Western Europe were different with their political