German Nation & Culture
Had a warrior-hunter society.
Who were the Germans?
Age-old custom.
What did German law mean?
After conquering southern Gaul, they crossed the Pyrenees into the Iberian Peninsula and conquered it.
Who were Visigoths?
He was a Visigothic king of Spain of the sixth century.
Who is Leovigild?
At this Council of the Arian clergy and the Visigothic ruling class made the public announcement of their conversion to the Catholic Faith.
What is the Third Council of Toledo (589)?
German “kings” were thought to be descended from these.
Who were the gods or demigods?
To prove his innocence, one had to appeal to three kinds of “evidence”.
What is the oath, the ordeal, and the combat?
The gods were ever at war with the giants of the ice and cold.
What are Germanic myths?
Was the son of Leovigild by his first wife, Theodosia.
Who is Hermenegild?
He was the king of the Vandals under whose leadership they conquered first, North Africa, Sardinia, and Corsica.
Who is Genseric?
Eventually they allowed several Germanic tribes to move their families as settlers and colonists into empty or underpopulated lands in Gaul
Who are the Romans?
One would called on a god or on Christ to support him for telling the truth or punish him for lying.
What is an oath?
The German gods demanded human sacrifice and rewarded recklessness in battle; men who were brave and fought well would be taken to him after death to feast with the gods.
Who is Valhalla?
Under the influence of his zealously Arian wife, Leovigild tried to force Arianism on his Catholic subjects
Who is Goswintha?
They were a pagan Germanic people who had lived for centuries in what is now Belgium and along the Rhine and Main Rivers in Germany.
Who were the Franks?
During the later years of the Roman Empire, they moved with their families and herds into these Valleys.
What are the Danube and Rhine valleys?
one who fought with a court-appointed opponent or one’s accuser. It was believed God would grant the victory to the one who swore truthfully.
What is combat?
The Visigoths practiced this religion, with their own bishops and liturgy, while the Romans were Catholic.
What is Arianism?
He was the Catholic bishop of Seville and Hermenegild’s uncle.
Who is Leander?
He was a Meroving king of the Franks who secured his power by eliminating all other members of his family and by conquest.
Who is Clovis?
Came from the forests south of the Baltic Sea and the plains and river valleys of eastern Europe.
Who were the Germanic peoples?
German laws were not written down but memorized and passed along by them.
Who are the bards or council elders?
The Visigoths, under their Balting kings (the family of Alaric) ruled southern Gaul until they were driven out by this group.
Who were the Franks?
Though an Arian, Hermenegild was married to this Catholic Frankish princess.
Who is Ingunthis?
He was the last Roman emperor in the West. His name recalls the legendary founder of Rome – Romulus – and Augustus, the first Roman emperor.
Who is Romulus Augustulus?