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50 Cards in this Set
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the germanic tribe that settled in Gaul |
the franks |
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the two germanic tribes that settled in england |
the angles and the saxons |
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the germanic tribe and its king that sacked Rome in 410 AD |
King Alaric and the Visigoths |
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The name of Clovis's legendary grandfather who was supposedly a sea dragon |
Merovech |
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the reason why western rome fell to the germanic tribes |
the roman armies were depleted because of declining population and romans were no longer motivated to defend themselves
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the titles given to the leader of a monastery |
an abbot/abbess |
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The first general council of the christian church held in 325 AD by order of the Roman Emperor Constantine |
The Council of Nicaea |
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The pole that took control of central Italy in order to save the people from the barbarians and formulated the concept of purgatory |
Pope Gregory the Great |
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He encouraged the copying of manuscripts by monks as "useful labor" |
Cassiodorus |
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The doctrine that Peter had been chosen by Jesus as the head of the church and later considered to be the first bishop of Rome (centuries later peter and his successors will be called "popes") |
the petrine succession |
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the name of the one supreme God of the Muslims |
Allah |
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the holiest city for the muslims |
Mecca |
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the sacred scriptures of Islam |
the Quran (Koran) |
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It means "deputy of the prophet" and was the title given to Muhammad's successor |
Caliph |
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one of the political divisions within Islam - they are the followers of the Umayyad Dynasty (the term means "religious custom") |
The Sunnites |
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He married Clothilde, the christian daughter of the king of burgundy, in order to give legitimacy to his control of Gaul |
Clovis |
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He managed to reunite eastern and western Rome during his lifetime and reorganize and codified Roman Law again. |
Emperor Justinian |
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he translated the bible from hebrew and greek into latin so that it could be understood western Europe
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St. Jerome |
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He was Muhammad's father-in-law and became the leader of Islam after his death |
Abu-Bakr |
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He started the first monastery in the West and wrote a set of rules that all members within the monastery had to follow |
St. Benedict of Nursia |
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A teaching that is different from the official or universal beliefs of the church |
heresy |
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The new capital city of the Roman Empire built in 330 AD and remodeled by Emperor Justinian in 532 AD. |
Constantinople |
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the monk that lived in the basket at the top of a high pillar in the desert for 37 years in order to prove his love for god |
St. Simeon the Stylite |
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The 3 different civilizations that developed from the old Roman Empire |
The byzantine empire, the islamic Empire, and western europe |
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The huge amphitheater built in constantinople that held between 40-60,000 spectators and was used mostly for chariot races |
The Hippodrome |
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The main food eaten by commoners and aristocrats alike. |
bread |
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this liquid was consumed less often than beer, wine, or ale because it was not purified in any way and often was unsafe to drink |
water |
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they negotiated marriages for economic or political gain |
the fathers of aristocratic women |
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these aristocrats were appointed by Charlemagne to supervise local administration and justice and to raise armies when necessary |
counts |
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a charm (often filled with herbs or other substances) worn around the neck or body of a patient in order to cure diseases |
an amulet |
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He was Charlemagne's father |
Pepin "the short" |
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He was the greatest of all the frankish kings and he created an empires that covered most of western europe |
charlemagne |
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the worst of the barbarians invaders of western europe during the 9th and 10th centuries |
The Vikings |
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He was the first Frankish king to be crowned by a pope and given the title "Holy Roman Emperor" |
Charlemagne |
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He made a deal with the pope - he agreed to defend central Italy against the Lombards and the pope agreed to endorse him as the new king of the Franks. |
Pepin "the short" |
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An economic system that began because of a need to form a common defense for peasants against barbarian invasions |
manorialism |
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The position of "knight" began to form in the late 8th century under this system of political hierarchy |
feudalism |
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a contract in which something of value (usually land) was exchanged for service (usually military service) |
fief |
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peasants bound to the land of an aristocrat |
serf |
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the fields belonging to the lord of the manor that peasants were required to farm for free |
the demesne |
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this muslim dynasty overtook the Umayyad dynasty in the East in 750 AD and built a new capital city in Baghdad in 762 |
the Abbasid Dynasty |
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The instrument invented by the Muslims that allowed sailors to determine their location by observing the position of the night stars |
an astrolabe |
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this muslim wrote a medical encyclopedia that stressed the contagious nature of certain diseases |
Ibn Sina |
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In the early Middle Ages, it was Europe's largest city after Constantinople and it was controlled by the Umayyad dynasty |
Cordoba |
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The contributions of the Muslims to Western Civ. |
paper, Arabic numerals and algebra, astronomy, and medicine |
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They were great explorers - sailing their ships across the north atlantic and landing in north american around 1,000 AD |
the vikings |
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the reason that feudalism and manorialism began in the 9th and 10th centuries. |
the barbarian invasions of the Magyars, Muslims, and Vikings |
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The three grandsons of Charlemagne |
Charles the Bald, Lothar, Louis the German |
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This brandon of Charlemegne inherited the western portion of the Carolingian Empire |
Louis the German |
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A solemn act in which a vassal becomes " the man" of his lord by proclaiming his oath of loyalty |
homage |
