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HI Pp. 123-128
Ch. 11 QUIZ
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The earliest monks lived in the wilderness as what? | Hermits |
| abstinence from marriage | celibacy |
| perched alone for 37 years atop a stone pillar over 50 feet high | Simeon Stylites |
| religious communities isolated from the rest of society | Monasteries |
| monasteries for nuns | Convents |
| Life in a monastery followed rigid rules called what? | Orders |
| An Italian monk who founded a monastery at Monte Cassino in southern Italy; most European monks followed his orders | Benedict |
| The head of the monastery | Abbot |
| A kind of monk that preached and did missionary work outside the monastery | Friars |
| The 2 most prominent orders of friars | Franciscans and Dominicans |
| The first great Frankish military and political leader; inherited the position of tribal king from his father; professed his conversion to Christianity | Clovis |
| What year did Clovis get baptized? | 498 |
| Clovis's descendants who ruled a sometimes-united, sometimes-divided kingdom | Merovingian |
| The chief official of the royal household | Mayor of the Palace |
| the most famous Mayor of the Palace | Charles Martel |
| Muslims from North Africa | Moors |
| In what battle did Charles Martel raise a Frankish army in 732 and defeated the invading Muslims? | Battle of Tours |
| means "the Hammer" | Martel |
| the alliance between the Frankish rulers and the papacy, initiated by the conversion of Clovis and consummated by Pepin the Short, was to influence the course of European history not only during the Middle Ages but well into the modern age | "Donation of Pepin" or Papal States |
| French for "Charles the Great"; AKA Charles Augustus, Emperor of the Romans | Charlemagne |
| Who's empire was the largest in the west since the Roman Empire of the AD 300s? | Charlemagne's |
| act as buffer states between his empire and its enemies | Marks |
| The greatest event on Charlemagne's reign took place when? | Christmas Day 800 |
| means "the king's envoys" | Missi dominici |
| What divided Charlemagne's Empire into 3 parts? It set the stage for the foundation of the modern nations of France and Germany. | Treaty of Verdun |
| What was the land of the middle kingdom north of the Alps called? | Lorraine |
| a nomadic people from Asia who penetrated deep into southeastern Europe; they were called "Scourge of Europe" | Magyars |
| The Magyars settled where? | Hungary |
| The Norsemen or Vikings settled where? | Scandinavia |
| the most important Viking settlements | Normandy |
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