East European Lands in Civilization Context of the Middle Ages

Abstract

During the period of the early Middle Ages 3 local civilizations were formed in Europe. West-European Civilization was formed in the process of settling of the Germans and the encroachment of the territories of West-Roman Empire. The main significant feature of this community was the codification of private land property, which took place by convergence of the German tradition of odals – alods as well as the Roman private Low. The Byzantine Civilization differs from its antique origins by the penetration of the eastern traditions of authoritarianism, what made the processional relations non-guaranteed and depended on power. East-European Civilization was formed at first in Slavic space. Its basic was the leading role of common property, what was provoked by the natural peculiarities of Central and Eastern Europe demanding collective work. In the period of further development West-Slavic People approached to the western civilization. East-Slaves saved the noticed peculiarity of community’s rules. Thus, the initial civilization differences in Europe were provided by the natural und climatic peculiarities of the East and West of the continent.
Keywords: Civilizations, Middle Age, West, Germans, Byzantine, Slaves, Early-Medieval States.