Charlemagne moved his capital and his court 45 miles southwest of Cologne to this city
What is Aachen?
100
Charlemagne used these to restore the culture of antiquity
What are manuscripts?
100
This Roman emperor was crowned on Christmas day, year 800 by the pope at St. Peter's in Rome
Who is Charlemagne?
100
This small country escaped occupation by the Romans in the first an second centuries
What is Ireland?
200
Sahn, Qibla, Mihrab
What are the three main features of a mosque?
200
This other religious building has many common architectural features
What is the Church of San Vitale in Ravenna?
200
Medieval manuscripts were copied in these
What are monastery scriptoria?
200
The Carolingian period was named after this man, also Charlemagne's grandfather who defeated the Muslim invasion at Tours
Who is Charles Martel?
200
These compartments formed by anetwork of tin metal strips are called this
What are cloisons?
300
In the 13th century, Christians gained control of this popular mosque
What is the Great Mosque of Cordoba?
300
This man was the architect of the Palace Chapel
Who is Odo of Metz?
300
These played an important role in Charlemagne's plan for controlling conquered territory
What are monasteries?
300
This statue shows Charlemagne's identification with Rome
What is the Equestrian Statue of Charlemagne?
300
This purse cover's decoration is of gold, cloisonne enamel, and dark red garnets. It combines Early Christian interlace designs and those of Germanic crafts with aspects of the Scythian animal style and other ancient Near Eastern motifs
What is the Sutton Hoo purse?
400
These people were leaders in Islamic prayer
Who are imams?
400
In the gallery are two central columns with these types of capitals
What are Corinthian capitals?
400
This Benedictine abbey was a major architectural work of this period
What is the Ottonian period?
400
This English scholar was hired to improve Charlemagne's understanding of the people of his empire
Who is Alcuin of York?
400
This is the earliest surviving European epic in the vernacular
What is Beowulf?
500
9'9" columns support these, that look like round candy canes
What are the arches of the Great Mosque, Cordoba?
500
These features decrease in size as the rise, giving a sense of greater weight at ground level
What are the supports of the palace chapel?
500
This depiction is strongly influence by Hellenistic tradition
What is the "Four Evangelists" painting?
500
This discipline consists of grammar, rhetoric, dialect, geometry, arithmetic, astronomy, and music
What is trivium?
500
This manuscript originally came from either Ireland or Northumbria in England and represents Saint John the Evangelist as a lion