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Early Middle Ages
YGK These People From the Early Middle Ages
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| German term for the early medieval period, the "age of migrating peoples" | Völkerwanderung |
| Nomadic people who entered central Europe in the late fourth century from the steppes, known for inflicting "tremendous slaughter" | Huns |
| The Roman historian who wrote about the Huns inflicting "tremendous slaughter" | Ammianus Marcellinus |
| The "scourge of God" and great leader of the Huns, defeated at the Catalaunian Fields | Attila |
| The battle where an alliance of Romans and Visigoths defeated Attila the Hun | Catalaunian Fields (near Chalons) |
| The Germanic people who took refuge south of the Danube from the Huns, later rebelling and shattering the Roman army at Adrianople (378) | Visigoths |
| The leader of the Goths who defeated the Roman army at Adrianople | Fritigern |
| The Roman emperor killed when the Goths shattered his army at Adrianople | Valens |
| The Visigoth leader who sacked Rome itself in 410 | Alaric |
| The heretical Christian beliefs (later converted from) held by the Visigoths, Ostrogoths, and Vandals | Arian beliefs |
| The Visigothic king killed by Islamic invaders from North Africa in 711 | Roderic |
| The Germanic people who occupied Italy after the last Roman emperor of the west was deposed in 476, establishing their own kingdom | Ostrogoths |
| The king known as "the Great" who ruled the Ostrogothic kingdom from 493-526 and tried to restore peace to Italy | Theodoric |
| The philosopher who worked as an official at Theodoric's court | Boethius |
| The Byzantine general who fought a series of destructive wars to collapse the Ostrogothic kingdom in the 6th century | Belisarius (and Narses) |
| The people who crossed the frozen Rhine River into Roman Gaul on New Years’ Eve, 406, and later occupied Carthage to control the grain trade | Vandals |
| The Vandal king who led a reputedly destructive sack of Rome in 455 | Gaiseric |
| The Byzantine emperor whose attempted reconquest of the western Mediterranean targeted the Vandals and Ostrogoths | Justinian |
| The people who moved into northern Italy (the region still known as "Lombardy") after the Byzantine-Ostrogoth war, later crushed by Charlemagne | Lombards |
| The Lombard historian who retired to the abbey of Monte Cassino to write a chronicle of his people | Paul the Deacon |
| The Germanic people who settled in Gaul and whose first great ruler, Clovis, converted to Catholicism in 496 | Franks |
| The first great ruler of the Merovingian dynasty who converted to Christianity in 496 | Clovis |
| The chief ministers who had lost effective power to the Merovingian kings by the early 8th century | Mayors of the palace |
| The mayor of the palace who deposed the last Merovingian king with the pope's permission in 751 and established a new Carolingian dynasty | Pepin the Short |
| Pepin's son who subjugated much of western Europe, was crowned emperor in Rome on Christmas Day 800, and presided over a "Renaissance" | Charlemagne |
| The early medieval inhabitants of northern Britain known for raids on Hadrian's Wall and elaborate stone carvings | Picts |
| The designation for Germanic peoples (Angles, Saxons, Jutes) who migrated to Britain in the 5th and 6th centuries | Anglo-Saxons |
| The collective name for the seven Anglo-Saxon kingdoms across southern and eastern Britain by the early 7th century | The Heptarchy |
| Cultural products of the newly Christian Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, including a famous epic poem and historical writings | Illuminated manuscripts, Beowulf, and the writings of the Venerable Bede |
| The southwesternmost Anglo-Saxon kingdom, which survived the Viking raids of the 9th century and unified the territories into a single kingdom of England | Wessex |
| A nomadic people from Central Asia whose language is Ugric (related to Finnish) and who occupied the Danube basin around 900 | The Magyars |
| The 955 battle won by Germany's Otto the Great that halted Magyar expansion into central Europe | Battle of Lechfeld |
| The name of the Magyar grand prince who was baptized and crowned the first king of Hungary at the end of the 10th century | Stephen |
| Seaborne raiders from Scandinavia who used longships to attack coastal regions of western Europe between the late 8th and 11th centuries | Vikings (Norsemen or Northmen) |
| The region of northern France that Vikings seized from Charlemagne’s heirs, establishing a duchy | Normandy |
| The Norman Duke who earned the epithet “the Conqueror” for his victory over the Anglo-Saxons at the 1066 Battle of Hastings | William |
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