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3 influential Germanic kingdoms were

ostrogothics, Franks, and Anglo-saxons

The Scourge of God was the name given to

Attila the Hun

The 3 methods of determining guilt or innocence in the Germanic system were

compensation, trial by ordeal combat, and swearing a solemn oath

Many Germanic tribes were __________ Christians

Arian

Clovis

established Frankish kingdom

Vortigern

invited Angles and Saxons to England

Valens

Roman emperor killed by Visigoths

Alaric

king of the Visigoths

Theodoric

king of Ostrogoths

Gaiserac

Vandal leader

Odoacer

deposed Roman emperor in 476

Theodosius

made peace with the Visigoths

Slavs

eastern European tribe

Huns

Asiatic tribe

How do the 3 Germanic kingdoms described differ from each other?

Ostrogothics were more Roman, Frankish were almost purely Germanic, Anglo-saxon combination of several cultures; Roman celtic, native Briton, and Anglo-saxons

the emperor who codified Roman law in the Corpus Juris Civilis was

Justinian the Great

Another name for the Eastern Empire was the

Byzantine Empire

Justinian's successful general was

Belisarius

the 4 "doctors" of the Church are

Augustine, Jerome, Gregory the Great, and Ambrose

Boethius wrote

Consolation of Philosophy

Benedict established his monastery at

Monte Cassino

Islam means

submission to God

Koran

holy book of Islam

597

conversion of England

Jarrow

Bede's monastery

Ulfila

Arian missionary

The scourge of God

Attila

Witan

Counselor a to Germanic king

Vandals

Germanic tribe

Clovis

Established Frankish kingdom

Ambrose

Doctor of the Church

Caliph

Islamic ruler

5 Germanic tribes are

Ostrogoths, Visigoths, vandals, Anglo-Saxons, and franks

The Ostrogoth ruler who deposed odoacer was

Theodoric

Theodoric the Ostrogoth established his capital city in

Ravenna

The archaeological find that gave scholars an insight into early anglo-Saxon culture was

A burial ship in sutton hoo

The British king who asked for aid from the angles and Saxons in the 5th century was

Vortigern

The eastern empire became known as the

Byzantine empire

The establishment of Catholicism In the Western Europe is credited to

Clovis

What did most Germanic kingdoms have in common

They had warriors appointed as kings and most were allied with Christians

What did Clovis accomplish

He established the Frankish kingdom and established Catholicism in


What epic poem describes many of the treasures found at sutton hoo

Beowulf

The Frankish kings of the 7th century were called

Do-nothing-kings

Charlemagne was crowned emperor on ______ in the year ____ by pope ___

Christmas Day, 800, and Leo 3

Charlemagne's missi dominici were assigned to

Check the local courts and report the state of the empire

Counts ruled over

Counties

Marches are

Frontier areas

Charlemagne's capital city was

Aix-la-chapelle

The greatest scholar brought to Charlemagne's court came from

England

The treaty of verdun was made in

843

In 911 Charles the simples allowed Vikings to settle in what was later called

Normandy

The Magyars were a ____ tribe

Asiatic

The anglo-Saxon pod, ____ was probably written in the 7th or 8th century

BeowulfBeowulf

One of the greatest scholars of his time was the monk known as _______, who died in 735

Venerable bede

Basil was not a ________ but he was the ______, a _________ and _________

Roman emperor, Bulgarian Slayer, Macedonian king, and emperor from 976-1025

During the reign of Basil 2, the Byzantine Empire gained the most territory held since the reign of

Justinian

During the reign of Basil 2, _____ became the cultural center of the Mediterranean, and Byzantine __________ reached its highest point

Constantinople and culture

When was iconoclasm condemned by an ecumenical council

787

When was the coronation of Charlemagne

800

When was the break between Roman and Eastern churches

1054

when did Leo the third destroy religious statues

726

The major Islamic Caliphate after 750 was

Abbasid

Baghdad, capital of the Islamic Empire, was captured by the ______ in 1055

Turks

"the Hammer"

Charles Martel

crowned Charlemagne

Pope Leo the third

1055

fall of Baghdad Turks

Abbot

head of monastery

Rollo

viking leader

Boethius

Consolation of Philosophy

Aix-la-Chapelle

Charlemagne's capital

Jerome

Latin Vulgate

Emperor Leo the third

leader of iconoclast movement

Alciun of York

English scholar

A religious image or picture is sometimes called

an icon

The Frankish kings of the 7th century were called the

do-nothing-kings

The Donation of Pepin refers to

Papal states

Another term for the Germanic practice of compensation was

wergild

The Treaty of Verdun

divided Charlemagne's kingdom

The Vikings were also called

Norsemen

A famous illuminated manuscript is

Book of Kells

The spread of Western monasticism was due largely to

St. Benedict

Charlemagne's father was

Pepin the Short

East Frankland was given to

Louis the German

The crowning of Charlemagne was both _____ and ______ significant

politically and religiously

_________ was a cultural center in the tenth century

Muslim Spain

Alfred was king od

Wessex

The Praetorian Guard was

the emperor's personal guard

After the 5th century, the Bishop of Rome was referred to as

Pope

The Huns, Magyars, Mongols, and Bulgars were _____ tribes

Asiatic

3 causes for the barbarian invasions of the 4th century were

pushed westward by Huns, wanting to move to the Mediterranean, the weakened state of Roman military power

Monte Cassino was

the place where Benedict established his monastery

The 1st Germanic king to become a Roman Catholic was ____, king of the

Clovis, king of the Franks

What was the comitatus?

Relationship between a leader and his warriors. The warriors swore complete alliance to the king or leader. The leader, in turn, took care of the needs of his warriors, including payment of debts

Why did the Arab invasions begin?

Because they needed land and grazing areas, nomadic tribes moving north, Muhammad was a strong religious and political leader, and Islam provided a reason for conquest

What was the Carolingian Renaissance?

A period of time during Charlemagne's reign when schools were established, scholars were sought out to teach, classics were preserved, illuminated manuscripts were produced, and Alcuin was brought from England

Fief

Land granted by a king or lord

Reeve

Selected by peasants to represent them

Apprentice

A young man wanting to learn a trade

Page

First step to knighthood

Guild

Business organization

Chaucer

Canterbury Tales

Bologna

Early university

El cid

Spanish epic

Euclid

Geometry

Dante

Divine Comedy

What is feudalism

A social, economic and political system of the High Middle Ages where vassals gave military service to lords in return of protection and land

What is manorialism

Social and economic system of the Middle Ages

What is the Chivalric code

Code of a knight

The Carolingian line of kings was followed by the ____ line of kings

Capetian

The Capetian king who led the seventh and eight crusades was

St. Louis

Joan of arc led the French army against the siege at

Orleans

The Danish king who ruled England from 1016 to 1035 was

Canute

The document that king john was forced to sign by his nobles was

Magna Carta

House of lancaster

Red rose

Otto the great

First emperor of Holy Roman Empire

Battle of hastings

1066

HOuse of York

White rose

"El cid"

Hero of Spanish reconquista

What causes the hundred years war

A double claim to the throne in FranceFrance

What caused the war of the roses

Henry VI's weak and disastrous reign

What was monastic reform?

When the monasteries wanted to make things better and right

What were the mendicant orders of the 12th and 13th centuries?

They were new orders founded to fight the spread of heresies

Pope Innocent the third gained political victories over both __________ of France and ____________ of England

Philip Augustus and King John

The Franciscans were founded by

Francis of Assisi

2 mendicant orders were begun by _______(1182-1216) and ___________(1170-1221)

Francis of Assisi and Dominic

Thomas Aquinas wrote the

Summa Theologica

Constantinople was captured for the first time by ______ in _____

4th crusaders and 1204

5 reasons for the final decline of the Byzantine empire are

internal power struggles, capture by Constantinople, invasions, loss of trade, black plague

The Byzantine Empire ended with the fall in _____ to the __________ in ______

1453, Ottoman Turks, and Constantinople

the last Byzantine emperor was

Constantine XI

Janissary corps

elite corps of Ottoman Turks

Genghis Khan

great Mongol leader

Tatars

Mongol and Turkish tribes

Khambalik

modern Beijing

Kublai Khan

established Mongol capital in Khambalik

Varangians

Viking Russians

Golden Horde

Mongol territory in Russia

Danial

established Moscow

Alexander Nevski

Russian national hero

Ivan the Great

first "tsar"

The Ummayad Kingdom of Cordoba was ________(religion)

muslim

Cluny was a reformed _________

monastery

Scholasticism was a system of

religious philosophy

Chaucer was a great ________

English poet

Dante

great Italian poet

first great Russian monarch

Ivan the Great

Augustine of Canterbury

missionary to Englandq

The Song of Roland

French epic

King John

Magna Carta

Notre Dame de Paris

Gothic Architecture

Bailiff

ran the financial business of the manor

trivium

Latin grammar, rhetoric, and logic

The granting of land by a noble to a lesser noble was called

subinfeudation

The ceremony in which one became a vassal was called

investiture

The first 2 steps to knighthood were

page and squire

The steps to becoming a master craftsman were

apprenticeship and becoming a journey man

2 early formal universities were

Bologna and Paris

The medieval quadrivium included _______, _____, ______, and _________

arithmetic, music, geometry, and astronomy

Chaucer's collection of medieval tales is called

the Canterbury Tales

2 styles of architecture in the Middle Ages were

Romanesque and Gothic

Philip Augustus founded the University of

Paris

Harold Godwinson was defeated at the Battle of ______________ by ______ in the year ________

Hastings, William, and 1066

Why did Germany fail to develop a strong succession of monarchies?

Because they sought power and conquest instead of successful monasteries

Who fought in the Hundred Years War and who won?

England and France fought, France won

What was the Reconquista and how long did it last?

A period of battles between Muslims and Christians that lasted 800 years

What are the 7 sacraments of the Roman Catholic Church that were central to medieval Christian belief?

baptism, confirmation, penance, the Holy Eucharist, matrimony, holy orders, and extreme unction

What were the crusades?

They were military expeditions that failed. They were launched to help stop the spread of heresies.

Describe briefly the development of monastic tradition from the beginnings to the reform and mendicant orders of the 13th century

Monasticism started off as just a way of life. Monks would take vows of obedience and poverty. But then the reforms started because the monasteries were too wealthy. Eventually, the mendicant orders were passed to help monasticism become what it was and for the monks to help others again