Vocabulary
A religious community for women known as nuns.
What is a convent?
The first ruler to unite many of the Germanic kingdoms in the early Middle Ages.
Who is Clovis I?
The geographic feature, most important in encouraging some Eastern European peoples to migrate into the Roman Empire and settle there.
What is the North European Plain?
This ultimately ended Charlemagne's empire.
What is an invading Muslim army?
This is the reason Catholic popes sent missionaries into Northern Europe.
What is to convert pagans to Christianity?
This is the person on a manor that collected taxes from the peasants and served as judge when the lord was away?
Who is the bailiff?
This is the physical features of a place.
What is topography?
These people became the most powerful force in Western Europe in the early Middle Ages.
Who are the Franks?
The geography of this region of Europe would most likely have made it the least attractive home for migrating Germanic tribes?
What is the Scandinavian Peninsula?
Charlemagne thought this could help unite his kingdom.
What is education?
This was the Catholic Church’s most powerful tool in maintaining its authority in medieval Europe.
What is it's control over the sacraments?
A peasant who is legally bound to live and work on land owned by a lord.
What are serfs?
Warriors mounted on horseback.
What are knights?
The Christian monk that established the set of rules that governed life in many monasteries and convents throughout medieval Europe.
Who is Benedict?
The Frankish empire Charlemagne created in Western Europe included these two countries.
What is France, Germany, and Italy?
On Christmas Day 800, this man crowned Charlemagne emperor of the Romans.
Who is Pope Leo III?
Name a reason for the Catholic Church’s great power in medieval Europe.
What is its control over sacraments?
What is its vast land holdings and wealth?
What is its moral and religious authority?
Warriors mounted on horseback.
What are knights?
A follower of polytheistic religion, or religion with more than one god.
What is a pagan?
This group became the boldest and most successful raiders in Europe following the collapse of Charlemagne’s empire.
Who are the Vikings?
Where most early European countries formed.
Where is near major rivers?
Charlemagne was a devout (this religion).
What is Christian?
This was a series of rules for monastic life created by Benedict.
What is the Benedictine Rule?
Noblemen who received land from other noblemen in return for their services.
What are vassals?
Latin for "Middle Age".
What is medieval?
This group’s main role in feudal society was to protect the lord.
Who are Knights?
This is where the first Christian monasteries formed.
Where is Egypt?
This is Charlemagne's nickname.
What is Charles the Great?
These people were sent by popes or leaders of the Catholic Church to try to convert others to Catholicism.
Who are missionaries?
An estate granted by a lord to a vassal.
A group of people who are trained and ordained for religious services.
What is clergy?
This man worked to convert the people of Ireland to Christianity.
Who is St. Patrick?
This modern-day country was the home of the Magyars, who raided Western Europe following the collapse of Charlemagne’s empire.
What is Hungary?
This is the 7th letter in Charlemagne's name.
What is "m"?
By 1050, most of Europe was this religion.
What is Christian?
A self-sufficient estate of a medieval lord.
What is a manor?
A secluded community where men called monks focus on prayer and scripture.
What is a monastery?
This man was a British monk that worked to establish the Catholic Church in Germany and the Netherlands.
What is Boniface?
Viking invaders from this country caused great disorder in Western Europe after Charlemagne’s empire collapsed.
Where is Scandinavia?
Charlemagne worked closely with this organization to spread Christianity throughout Europe.
What is the Catholic Church?
This the term that refers to the large community of Christians spread across the world.
What is Christendom?
A code of conduct in medieval Europe that required knights to be brave, loyal, and honest,
What is chivalry?