was considered the highest in the hierarchy of humans because they stood “closest to God.”
The clergy
Middle Ages looked at their society as being comprised of three groups:
Those who work
Those who fight
Those who pray
500 -1000 – Early Middle Ages (Dark Ages)
1000 -1300 – High Middle Ages
1300 - 1500 – Late Middle Ages, also known as Renaissance.
Charlemagne took his armies to fight the ______, but was not successful.
Muslims
Muslims conquered who?
Jerusalem and Damascus.
who was The bishop of Rome
the pope
In the high Middle ages farmers are known as what?
peasants
When talking about civilization during the Middle Ages, we refer to as Medieval
(means Middle Age).
what did Charlemagne encourage? Think in terms of enlightenment.
learning, literacy, culture, and the arts of the Frankish kingdom.
After easy victories in Africa, Asia, and Spain, Muslims decided to move up to the-
Kingdom of Franks.
were a series of wars undertaken by European Christians between the 11th and 14th cent. to recover the Holy Land from the Muslims.
Crusades
In your own words tell me about crop rotation?
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There were two dynasties that ruled the kingdom of the Franks during the early Middle Ages –
Merovingian and Carolingian dynasties
In the late 790s, Pope Leo III was in serious trouble and attacked by who and when doing what?
mob while in a procession
Who was the only person to defeat the Muslims? tell me the battle name too?
Charles Martel (Frankish commander) and defeated at the Battle of Tours in 732.
what was the main and first city recaptured during the Crusades
Jerusalem (1099)
tell me the definition to this word Manorialism
social and economic system that originated from Roman estates (latifundia), now called “manors.”
was the first king of the Merovingian dynasty to unify the Franks.
Clovis
influence of the Roman Catholic Church- in your own words.
Missionaries carried Christianity and Latin alphabet to Germanic tribes.
what does this word mean- Allah
GOD
tell me the definition of Excommunication
exclusion from the Church as a penalty for refusing to obey Church laws.
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Charlemagne is the greatest Frankish King. who is his grandfather?
Charles Martel
He used bishops as his emissaries to distant lands –
missi dominici.
what is the holy book for Muslims
Quran