Review / test questions
- Medieval period; 476 - 1453 AD
- New society has roots in the beliefs of the Roman Catholic Church, classical heritage of Rome, and customs of various Germanic tribes.
- Germanic invaders overrun the western half of the Roman empire causing: disruption of trade, downfall of cities, and population shifts to rural areas.
- Effects of Invasion
- Decline in learning.
- Germanic warriors' loyalty is to the lord of the manor he provided them with food, weapons, and treasure.
- Clovis rules Gaul (Franks) until death in 511
- in 496 he has a battle conversion - him and 3000 warriors became Christians
- Church in Rome likes this
- by 511 the Franks are united into one kingdom, with Clovis and the Church working as partners.
- Church + Frankish rulers = rise in Christianity
- In 520, Benedict writes rules for monks:
- live simple
- no marital relations
- obedience
- Sister Scholastica writes similar rules for nuns.
- Pope Gregory 1 goes secular (worldly power)
- Bead wrote the history of England
- Church revenues are used to help the poor, build roads, and raise armies = theocracy.
- Clovis' descendants include Charles Martel, knows as Charles the Hammer.
- Hammer defeats a Muslin raiding party from Spain in 732.
- Charles Martel's son is Pepin the Short.
- Son #1 - Carloman - dies in 771
- Son #2 - Charles, known as Charlemagne, meaning Charles the Great.
- Charlemagne
- became the most powerful king in western Europe
- kept close watch on his huge estates
- Louis' three sons - Lothair, Charles the Bald, and Louis the German split up the kingdom at the Treaty of Verdun in 843 AD (they were weenies)
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