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TeamSpence MiddleAge
Team Spence The Middle Ages
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Conquered Spain during the 470s | Visigoths |
| dominated Italy from the 5th century until Justinians's forces reasserted imperial authority there during the 530s | Ostrogoths |
| constructed a society that drew on the agricultural resoures of continental Europe. | Franks |
| ruled Franks from 481 until his death in 511. Under him the Franks became the preeminent military and political power in western Europe | Clovis |
| popular religion in much of the eatern Roman empire. | Arian Christianity |
| Clovis' wife, a devout Christian who had long urged her husband to adopt her faith | Clotilda |
| founder of the Carolingian dynasty | Charles Martel ("Charles the Hammer") |
| displaced the line of Clovis and asserted the authority of the central government | Carolingians |
| 732, Charles Martel turned back a Muslim army that had ventured from Spain in order to reconnoiter lands north of the Pyrenees mountains | Battle of Tours |
| Charles Martel's grandson, Frankish realm reached its hight point under him | Charlemagne |
| Charlemagne temporarily reestablished this, like King Harsha did in India | centralized imperial rule |
| Charlemagne maintained these with the Byzantine empire and the Abbasid caliphate | diplomatic relations |
| Charlemagne campaigned for 32 years to impose his rule on them and repress their rebellions | Saxons |
| Name of Charlemagne's capital | Aachen |
| Charlemagne relied on these because he spent most of his reign traveling throughout his realm in order to maintain his authority, known as counts | aristocratic deputies |
| to bring the counts under tighter control, Charlemagne instituted this new group of imperial officials who traveled every year to all local jurisdictions and reviewed the accounts of local authorities | missi dominici ("envoys of the lord ruler") |
| He proclaimed Charlemagne emperor and placed an imperial crown on his head during a Christmas Day religious service | Pope Leo III |
| Charlemagne's only surviving son, kept the Carolingian empire together | Louis the Pious |
| invaded the Frankish realm from the south, raided towns, villages, churches, and monasteries in Mediterranean Europe from the mid ninth to late tenth century | Muslims |
| invaded the Frankish realm from the east, descendants of nomadic peoples from central Asia who had settled in Hungary | Magyars |
| invaded the Frankish realm from the north, most feared of all invaders, began mounting raids in northern France even during Charlemagne's reign. | Vikings |
| developed a remarkable set of shipbuilding techniques and seafaring skills that enabled them to travel safely and reliably through the open ocean | Norse mariners |
| place where norse mariners established a colony in modern Canada | Newfoundland |
| in what modern day location was Newfoundland located? | Canada |
| what skills made it possible for Norse peoples to migrate from their homelands and establish new agricultural communities in the north Atlantic basin | seafaring skills |
| what were most Norse seafarers? | merchants seeking commercial opportunities or migrants seeking lands to settle and cultivate |
| what did some turn their maritime skills towards rather than trading or raising crops? | raiding and plundering |
| what were the Norse seafarers that turned towards raiding and plundering called? | Vikings |
| What did the term Viking originally refer to | a group that raided the British Isles from their home at Vik in southern Norway |
| what areas did the Vikings invade and plunder | from eastern Europe to Mediterranean lands |
| what kind of boats did the Vikings sail | shallow draft boats |
| why did the Vikings sail shallow draft boats? | to cross the heavy seas and navigate the rivers offering access to interior regions of Europe. |
| why did Vikings carefully coordinate their ships' movements and time their attacks? | to take advantage of the tides |
| what was mounted on the prows of the Vikings boats? | a dragon head |
| which site did the Vikings raid at least three times during the ninth and tenth centuries | Constantinople |
| True or False: the Carolingians had no navy | True |
| what did the Carolingians rely on for defense against Magyars, Muslims, and Vikings since they did not have a navy? | local forces |
| after the ninth century, political and military initiative in western Europe passed increasingly to ________ and _________ authorities | regional and local |
| which land bore the brunt of the earliest Viking raids? | England |
| In England, invasions prompted the series of small kingdoms established earlier by _______,_______ and _________ to merge into a single larger realm | Angles, Saxons, and other Germanic peoples |
| He led the effort to merge the smaller kingdoms established earlier by Angles, Saxons, and other Germanic peoples into a single larger realm | Kind Alfred |
| He expanded from his base in southern England to territories farther north held by Danish invaders. | King Alfred |
| most successful of the local lords of the Carolingian authority | King Otto I of Saxony |
| King Otto imposed his authority throughout _______ | Germany |
| King Otto led his armies into _______ twice to support the papacy against Lombard magnates | Italy |
| In Germany and England, response to ninth-century invasions led tot eh organization of and ________ ________ _______. | effective regional state |
| The devolutions of political and military responsibility to local authorities in thenth-century France encouraged the development of a _________ _______ ______. | decentralized political order |
| what kind of development did ending ninth-century invasions lay a foundation for | social, economic, and cultural |
| what did the term feudalism refer to | the political and social order of medieval Europe |
| what was the "feudal system" based on? | a neat hierarchy of lords and vassals, who collectively took charge of political and military affairs. |
| why are scholars abandoning the term feudalism? | because it distorts and oversimplifies the understanding of a complicated society. |
| _____ ______ provided grants that enabled their retainers to support themselves and thier families | Local lords |
| In exchange for the grants provided by the lords, retainers owed _____ | loyalty |
| what were retainers responsible for? | the organizations of local public works projects, the resolution of disputes, and the administration of justice |
| dependence on the personal relationship between lord and reatainer introduced an element of ______ | instability |
| during the high middle ages, the kings of ________ and ________ depended on relationships with their retainers in building powerful, centralized monarchies | England and France |
| Both _______ and _______ societies had recognized enslaved and free classes | Roman and Germanic |
| what are serfs? | semifree individuals who owed obligations to the lords whose lands they cultivated |
| A _____ was a large estate consisting of fields, meadows, forests, agricultural tools, domestic animals, lakes and rivers, and serfs bound to the land | manor |
| the ____ of the manor was a prominent political or military figure | lord |
| True or False: during the middle ages, economic activity in western Europe was slower than in China, India, southwest Asia and the easter Mediterranean region | True |
| the _____ plow was more serviceable in the moist soils of the north | heavy plow |
| the _______ was constructed, which enabled cultivators to take advantage of a ready and renewable source of inanimate energy | watermill |
| a special _____ ______ was developed which enabled cultivators to rely less on slow-moving oxen | horse collar |
| early medieval Europe was almost entirely a _____ society that engaged in little commerce | rural |
| Maritime trade flourished in the _____ and _____ Sea | North and Baltic |
| kinsmen of the Vikings who raided lands from eastern Europe to the Mediterranean | Norse seafarers |
| Most active among the early medieval merchants in the northern seas were ______ seafarers | Norse |
| By traveling down the Russian rivers to the Black Sea, Norse seafarers were able to trade actively in both the _______ and _______ empires | Byzantine and Abbasid |
| Norse mariners linked western Europe with the _______ world | Islamic |
| By the time the Roman empire collapsed, _______ was the principal sourse of religious, moral, and cultural authority throughout the Mediterranean basin | Christianity |
| Charlemagne sometimes promoted the spread of Christianity by _____ _____ | military force |
| Threatened the popes and the city of Rome since the sixth century | Lombards |
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