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Early Middle Ages
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| government official | Mayor of the Palace |
| first Germanic king to become Christian | Clovis |
| changed religion | converted |
| blessed with holy oil | anointed |
| poor people bound to the land | serfs |
| son of Charles Martel, the 1st Frankish king to be anointed by the Pope | Pepin |
| traveling musicians | minstrels |
| people whose kingdom became modern Germany and France | Franks |
| translated means "Charles the Great" | Charlemagne |
| districts that England was divided into | shires |
| a boat made from stretching cow hide over a wooden frame | coracle |
| an epic poem | Beowulf |
| Irish monk who established a monastery on Iona | Saint Columba |
| home to monks and the abbot | monastery |
| island off the coast of Scotland | Iona |
| founder of the Irish church | Saint Patrick |
| group of nobles and church leaders | witenagemot |
| Pope who sent a mission of monks to convert Britain to Christianity | Pope Gregory I |
| King of Wessex who united England against the Danes | Alfred the Great |
| the southern part of Scandinavia also known as Denmark | Jutland |
| a Danish king that signed a peace treaty with the king of France in exchange for becoming Christian | Rollo |
| Viking letters that they used as magic charms | runes |
| military chiefs that ruled Viking territory | jarl |
| Norsemen, invaders from the far northern part of Europe | Vikings |
| a Danish king of England in 1016 | Canute |
| a Viking warrior | berserker |
| a Viking leader who led the expidition to North America | Leif Eriksson |
| name of a place the Vikings discovered in North America, formerly known as Vinland | Newfoundland |
| a deep narrow bay alond a coastline | fjord |
| the title held by Charles Martel was.... | Mayor of the Palace |
| during Clovis's reign, the Franks began to ... | speak Latin and become Christians |
| the Battle of Tours was won by...... | Charles Martel and the Franks |
| after Pepin conquered the Lombards in Italy, their lands were given to...... | the Pope |
| the Germanic people who migrated to Britain after the Romans left were the ..... | Angles, Saxons, and Jutes |
| as King of England, Alfred was ruler over the people of the _________________ kingdoms | Anglo-Saxon |
| Ireland became the center for Celtic culture and Christianity because.... | it was safe from attacks by the Germans |
| stories of the Norse gods and goddesses were told in works called.... | Eddas |
| the Varangian Route was the Vikings' water route into.... | Russia |
| a reason the Vikings became seafarers was.... | their land was rocky and their growing season was short |