FUN DATES
GERMANIC KINDOGM LOCATIONS
GERMANIC KINGDOMS
BYSANTINE BLITZ
FAMOUS FIGURES
100
What historical age began in 476 AD and what historical event is used to mark the beginning of that age?
The Middle Ages; the fall of the Western Roman Empire
100
Visigoths
Iberia
100
Who had the power in Germanic Kingdoms?
Kings and Emperors
100
Who was the most important Byzantine emperor?
Emperor Justinian
100
Pepin the Short
He established the Carolingian dynasty in 751.
200
What year did the Turks invade Constantinople?
1453
200
Lombards
Italy
200
Name the most powerful kingdoms among the Germanic tribes.
The Ostrogoths, The Lombards and The Angles and Saxons
200
Which event gave birth to, or caused the beginning, of the Byzantine Empire?
The fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476.
200
The Visigoth kingdom reached it's age of greatest splendor in the 6 and 7th Cs under these two kings:
King Leovigild (consolidated royal authority) and Reccared (promoted religious unity and converted to Catholocism
300
The Dark Ages gave birth to the Rebirth, the Renaissance, in this year.
1450-1493
300
Anglo-Saxons
The UK
300
Which social group prevailed over the rest of the population?
The military and the warriors
300
What is the most outstanding example of Byzantine architecture in the 6th century?
The Hagia Sophia basilica in Constatinople
300
Charlemagne
The most powerful emperor in the Carolingian Dynasty who defended Christianity.
400
What pious event took place in 380 AD
Emperor Theodosis declared Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire
400
Franks
France
400
What was the function of the Aula Regia? Who was it composed by?
They advised the Visigoth monarch and it was composed by nobles and ecclesiastics.
400
What does "schism" refer to?
It refers to the separation of the Western or Roman Church from the Eastern Church, later called Orthodox Church.
400
Emperor who, for defensive puposes, divided the Roman Empire into two parts: Western and Eastern
Emperor Theodosius
500
During what time period (centuries) did the Germanic tribes put an end to the political unity of Rome?
5-6th Centuries
500
Slavs
Eastern Europe
500
What was the base of the economy in the Germanic Kingdoms?
Agriculture
500
What were the icons?
Religious or sacred images which represented religious scenes or images.
500
Justinian I
Byzantine emperor who wanted to restore the unity of the old Roman Empire (527-565)
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