BOOK V.
SHEM AND JAPHETH.
| CHRISTIAN EUROPE. | MOSLEM ARABIA. | ||
| Anti-Jewish legislation by | King Jussef of Yemen | ||
| the higher clergy in | converted to Judaism | 500 | |
| Gaul | 525 | (Mar Zutra II, Martyr in | |
| Jews defend Naples for | Persia) | 520 | |
| the Ostragoths | 536 | Samuel Ibn Adija, hero | |
| Laws of Justinian | 541 | and poet, fl | 540 |
| Mohammed, born | 570 | ||
| Jews persecuted by King | The Hegira | 622 | |
| Sisebut | 612 | Jews defeated at the Battle | |
| of the Foss | 627 | ||
| Jews forbidden to enter | Arabian Jewish tribes | ||
| Jerusalem | 628 | lose their independence | 628 |
| Mohammedans take Palestine | 638 | ||
| Anti-Jewish edicts in | Bostanai, Resh Galutha | ||
| Spanish Peninsula | 681 | at Babylonia | 639 |
| Moslem Conquest of Spain, 711. | |||
CHAPTER XXXVIII.
BEGINNING OF THE JEWISH MIDDLE AGES.
In the Byzantine Empire.
To turn again to the history proper. The production of the Talmud is part of the story of Babylonian Israel. Except that fanatic outbreak about the year 500 (p. 236) little occurred to disturb the even tenor of their way. They were "happy" because they "had no history."
But life was going hard for their brethren elsewhere. Many were settled in the lands of the Eastern half of the Roman Empire known as the Byzantine. It included all ancient Rome's conquests in Asia, Eastern Europe and Northern Africa. Our present Turkey forms the bulk of it.