Fall of Rome
Peasants and Villages
The Church and Kings
Who dis?
100
Rome's overreliance on this led to massive unemployment and a number of rebellions.
What is slavery or slave labor?
100
What was the most commonly eaten food for medieval European peasants?
What is bread?
100
The headquarters of the Catholic church was in this ancient city.
What is Rome?
100
This man was a well respected Roman general who was declared himself dictator for life. He was eventually stabbed to death by member of the Senate and his close friend Brutus.
Dis Julius Caesar
200
This group of people in Rome had beliefs that were contradictory to many Roman laws and traditions which led to contributed to them being persecuted throughout the Empire until emperor Constantine.
Who are Christians?
200
Most peasants had this profession.
What is a farmer?
200
This person was the leader of the Catholic Church.
Who is the Pope?
200
Dis a dog
300
Rome spent so much of its annual budget on this that they often had insufficient money for other needs.
What is the military or war?
300
This was a place where peasants and other townsfolk went to socialize and meet people.
What is a tavern, inn, or alehouse.
300
This person was the leader of a church and often gave advise and spiritual guidance to the people of the town.
Who is a priest?
300
Dis Ark, Alisa, and Mason
400
Because Rome relied so heavily on slaves for manual labor, what did the empire stop doing?
Innovating or inventing new ways to do things and new technology.
400
The vast majority of people in the middle ages were illiterate, this person was usually a peasant whose job it was to read and write letters for the townspeople as well as make copies of books.
What is a scribe?
400
This man was dubbed a hero and "defender of Christianity" by the Pope for defeating the Moors at the battle of Tours in 732 CE and stopping the spread of Islam in Europe.
Who is Charles Martel?
400
Dis a cat
500
The city of Rome was sacked in 410 CE by this group of people which led to the steady decline of Rome afterwards.
Who are the Visigoths?
500
Name as many professions as you can that dealt with the production of and sale of grains like wheat, barley, oats, and rye as a resource.
Farmer, miller, baker, brewer, stablemaster, carpenter, merchants, scribes (or reeves.)
500
This German king was excommunicated by Pope Gregory VII in 1076 for appointing his own bishops within his kingdom and refusing to obey the authority of the Catholic Church.
Who is King Henry IV?
500
This man was the first Holy Roman Emperor crowned by the Pope.
Dis Charlemagne.