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Middle/Dark Ages
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| time period between the end of the classical age (Roman Empire) and the beginning to the modern world (Renaissance). | Middle Ages |
| King of Franks who ruled for 46 years; worked to build "a new Rome" based in France & Germany; devout Christian; crowned "Emperor of the Romans" by Pope; united much of western Europe | Charlemagne |
| local, independent leaders during the European Middle Ages | lords |
| Germanic tribes who invaded, then settled England | Angles & Saxons |
| land of Angles | England |
| Viking raiders who invaded and ultimately controlled all of England and most of Scandinavia | Danes |
| Duke of Normandy (France) who claimed the throne in 1066 ( the Norman Conquest) | William |
| William the Conqueror's accurate count of all subjects which provided a central tax system | Doomsday Book |
| law based on customs and judges' decisions | Common Law |
| a document which protected rights of nobles and some rights of ordinary people; served as a forerunner to Constitutional government and representative democracy | Magna Carta |