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Middle ages
middle ages
Question | Answer |
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1) Why called the middle ages? | Because it was the in between time. |
What were the "Dark Ages" | The Black plague was in the dark ages, learning and civilization declined. |
What were the three main influences on the early medievil Europe? | Catholic church, Roman traditions , germanic customs. |
How did the Catholic Church exercise so much power and influence on medeival life? | Monopoly on after life, sacremanets, excommunication, interdict, politics, strong imperial popes. |
What is monopoly on after life? | The only way to get to heven was to folow the reilgon............. |
What is excommunication? | If you don't believe and follow you are out of the church. |
What is interdict? | Banning a kingdom from receiving sacraments. A group punishement. Sinning laws. |
Strong imperial Popes like Gragory the great. | He became like a ruler in the middle ages and the church was part of the state. |
What is inquisition? | Church court. |
Who was Benedict? Why was he important? | He was a monk who established the Benedictine rule of living in the monastary. |
What were Benedict's monastic rules? | Stay for life, pray and worship 8 times a day, work 7 hours at manual labor, one or two meals a day, two hours of reading, wine but no red meat. |
How did classical roman heitage still influence life? | Languages evolved from latin called the romance languages (french, latin, spanish, italian) and monasataries wrote and created art that helped keep roman heritage alive. |
How did germanic custom influence Medieval Europe? Kingship. Trials | Kingship was based on war cheif who banded people together who were loyal to him. He took care of them and they were like a family, not like a roman government. Trials were not done by judges but by ordeal or superstition. |
What tribes took over in germanic rule and where? | The anglos and the saxons took over england, the franks took france, gothes took germany and the visigoths took spain and the ostrogoths took over italy. |
What is a major domo? | Mayor of the palace. |
Why was Charles Martel an important major domo? | He stopped the muslim conquest. |