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75 Cards in this Set
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Pope Gregory the Great was a monk? |
True |
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The Synod of Whitby solved military differences? |
False |
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The Corpus Juris Civilis is a religious document? |
False |
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The City of God was written by St. Augustine? |
True |
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All of the germanic tribes where Roman Catholic? |
False |
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The Huns where an Asiatic tribe? |
True |
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Being Arian Christians ended up as a problem for many germanic tribes because it gave Clovis a reason to attack them? |
True |
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The Scourge of God |
Attila |
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Witan |
Counselors to Germanic king |
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Vandals |
Germanic tribe |
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Clovis |
Established Frankish kingdom |
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Ambrose |
Doctor of the church |
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caliph |
Islamic ruler |
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Five Germanic tribes are: |
Angles, Saxons, Vandals, Franks, and Goths |
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The Ostrogoth ruler who deposed Odacer was |
Theodoric |
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The three methods of determining innocence or guilt in Germanic law were |
Compensation, trail by ordeal, and swearing of oath |
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Theodoric the Ostrogoth established his capital city in |
Ravenna |
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Archeological find that gave insight into Anglo-Saxon culture: |
Burial ship at Sutton Hoo |
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The British King who asked for aid from the Angles and Saxons in the fifth century was |
Vortigern |
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The establishment of Catholicism in Western Europe is credited to |
Clovis |
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What did most Germanic kingdoms have in common |
Pagan background, Arian Christians, witans, comitatus justice system. |
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What did Clovis do? |
Clovis established the French Kingdom. Fought pagan tribes Credited for Roman Catholicism in Western Europe |
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What poem describes the treasures found at Sutton Hoo? |
Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf |
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Charles Martel |
The Hammer |
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Pope Leo III |
Crowned Charlemagne |
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1055 |
Fall of Baghdad to Turks |
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Abbot |
Head of monastery |
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Rollo |
Viking leader |
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Boethius |
Consolation of Philosophy |
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Aix-la-Chapelle |
Charlemagne's capital |
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Jerome |
Latin Vulgate |
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Emperor Leo III |
Leader of iconoclast movement |
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Alcuin of York |
English scholar |
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A religious image or picture is sometimes called |
An icon |
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The Frankish Kings of the seventh century where called the |
Do-Nothing-Kings |
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The Donation of Pepin refers to |
Papal States |
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Another term for the germanic practice of compensation was |
Wergild |
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The Treaty of Verdun |
Divided Charlemagne's kingdom |
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The vikings where also called |
Norsemen |
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A famous illuminated manuscript is |
Book of Kells |
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The spread of Western monasticism was due largely to |
St. Benedict |
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The middle ages are the years A.D. 100-400? |
False |
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Charlemagne's father was Pepin the Short? |
True |
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East Frankland was given to Louis the German? |
True |
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Baghdad became the capital of the Byzantine Empire? |
False |
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How was the crowing of Charlemagne significant? |
Both politically and religiously |
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Muslim Spain was a cultural center in the tenth century? |
True |
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Alfred was King of Wessex? |
True |
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The Praetorian guard was |
The emperors personal guard |
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After the fifth century the bishop of Rome was referred to as the |
Pope or Papa |
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The Huns, Magyars, Mongols, and Bulgars where |
Asiatic tribes |
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Three causes for the barbarian invasions of the 4th century: |
Push westward by the Huns The number of barbarians Weakened state of Roman military power |
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Monte Cassino was |
The site of Benedict's monestary |
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What was the comitatus? |
A term for a group of warriors sworn to protect the king. |
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Why did the Arab invasions begin? |
Need for land and grazing areas, Arabs setting out war against "infidels" |
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What was the Carolingian Renaissance |
The reign of Charlemagne and his sons. They pushed forward in culture and art. |
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Feudalism concerned the lower classes? |
False |
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The Ummayad Kingdom of Cordoba was Muslim? |
True |
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Clunny was a reformed monestary? |
True |
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Hugh Capet was an early English King? |
False |
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Scholasticism was a system of religious Philosophy? |
True |
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The children's crusade was successful? |
False |
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The serfs followed the chivalric code? |
False |
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The Byzantine Empire fell in 1453? |
True |
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Chaucer was a great English poet? |
True |
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A fief was land granted to a noble? |
True |
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Dante |
Great Italian poet |
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Ivan the Great |
First great Russian monarch |
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Boethius |
Consolation of Philosophy |
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Augustine of Canterbury |
Missionary to England |
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The Song of Roland |
French epic |
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King John |
Magna Carta |
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Gothic Architecture |
Notre Dame de Paris |
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Bailiff |
Ran the financial business of the manor |
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Trivium |
Latin grammar, rhetoric, logic |