EARLY MIDDLE AGES ANSWER KEY

Key People, Places, or Events- Describe or list important details regarding the following information

  1. Medieval- Latin word for Middle Ages
  2. Charles Martel- Frankish Mayor who beat the Muslims at the Battle of Tours, paid for Arian Germans to be converted in Catholics, and was nicknamed “The Hammer”
  3. Treaty of Verdun- Divided Charlemagne’s Empire into 3 different parts, one for each of Charlemagne’s grandsons
  4. Charlemagne- Was the first Holy Roman Emperor, set up tithes for the church and had Saxons converted to Catholicism, son of Pepin the Short
  5. Pepin- (The Short) 1st Frank to be crowned by the Pope, Created the Papal States for the Pope known as the Donation of Pepin, son of Charles Martel
  6. Clovis- Established the Merovingian Dynasty as a King of the Franks, first German king to convert to Catholicism and combine Roman laws with German laws, Paris was his capital
  7. Benedictine Rule-This regulated the life for monks in monasteries of western Europe, included chastity, sobriety, and poverty
  8. Scandinavia- This is the land where the Vikings come from, present day Norway, Sweden, and Denmark
  9. Papal States –Located in Italy and was created for the Pope by Pepin.
  10. Alcuin-English priest who was hired to teach Charlemagne’s nobles children
  11. England or Great Britain- Land that was settled by many settlers including Saxons, Angles, and Jutes, but King Arthur may have been a king that saved the land. Later the favorite raiding spot for the Vikings

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  1. Monasteries and cathedrals were built by CHARLEMAGNE for schools to be placed in.
  2. The Papal States were created for the Pope by PEPIN also known as the Donation of PEPIN.
  3. _CHARLES MARTEL_ paid St. Boniface to convert Arian Germans to Catholicism.
  4. Franks, Vandals, and Visigoths are examples of what type of tribes? _GERMAN TRIBES_
  5. Paris was the capital of the Frankish Empire under the rule of ___CLOVIS____.
  6. Present day France is the location where the ___FRANKS_____ would create their Kingdom.
  7. _ITALY__ is the country where the Lombards would settle causing headaches for the Pope, that is until they were beat by the Franks.
  8. In 732, ___CHARLES MARTEL___ was able to stop the Muslim invasion at the Battle of Tours
  9. __MISSI DOMINICI____ are the messengers that Charlemagne used to investigate his kingdom.
  10. A 10% tax that all Christians were to pay to the Church is also known as a __TITHE__.

Short Answer- List or describe your answers for the following questions.

  1. Why was a period of the Middle Ages called the Dark Ages?

It was a time when the Greek and Roman Cultures were starting to disappear to the rest of the world. Some things were eventually lost and gone. People stopped trading, traveling, and communicating…people were in “the dark.”

  1. Explain or list some events leading to the Treaty of Verdun. ( hint place them in order)

Possible Answers:Vandals destroy Rome. Clovis unites the Franks into a single tribe. The Battle of Tours stops the Muslims invasion of France. Pepin ends the Merovingian Dynasty rule of the Franks. Charlemagne is the first Holy Roman Emperor.

BUT THEN his grandsons divide the empire into 3 parts…why there is modern France and Germany and not 1 Frankish Empire

  1. List some of the things that Monks gave to people of the Middle Ages.

Copied books, provided education, medicine, farming, and provided places for travelers to stay allowing for trade and communication to occur again.

Chronological order- The following events are in order but missing information. Fill in that information on the lines provided.

  1. The ___VISIGOTHS___ conquer Rome in 410 and move on to Spain
  2. The ___VANDALS____ are kicked out of Spain by the Visigoths and settle in North _AFRICA__.
  3. The ____SAXONS__ with Angles and Jutes conquer England fighting the native _CELTS__.
  4. __ROME__ is conquered by a German general named Odoacer ending the Roman Empire in _476_ beginning the Middle Ages.
  5. The __POPE___ crowns Charlemagne as “Emperor of __ROMANS__.”
  6. __VIKINGS__, from Scandinavia, begin to raid France and England and later discover _ICELAND__ and Greenland.
  7. The Holy Roman Empire is divided by __CHARLEMAGNE’S_______grandsons in the Treaty of ___VERDUN______.