Who's Who
Legalized Christianity by issuing the Edict of Milan.
Who is Emperor Constantine?
Alaric led them to raid Rome when he found he could not move up the ranks of the Roman army and seek what his people needed/ wanted.
Who are the Visigoths/ Goths?
In 585 AD, he crosses the English Channel and lands in Brittany (northwest France).
Who is St. Columban?
Somewhat unlike the Roman conquerors, these fierce sea-rovers, when landed, laid the country to ruins, killing and enslaving the peoples.
Who are the Norsemen?
What is Monte Cassino?
The only kind of people allowed to become emperor before the Empire crumbled in the late 400s.
Who are Roman citizens (not barbarians)?
Tueton (Germanic) chief who took over the western Roman Empire, marking the end of the line of old Roman Emperors in the West.
Who is Odoacer?
St. Boniface, an Englishman is sent to evangelize the Germans/ Teutons in 585 AD or 718 AD.
When is 718 AD?
In the East, emperors continue to rule from this city, until 1453 AD.
What is Constantinople?
This city became the headquarters of the Catholic Church in England.
What is Canterbury?
The leader of the barbarian, plundering Goths/ Visogoths when they captured Rome.
Who is Alaric?
He dissuades Attila the Hun from attacking Rome in 452 AD, forty-two years after the Goths take Rome.
Who is Pope Leo I.
Though the change is gradual, this is a convenient date to mark the "Fall of the (western) Roman Empire."
What is 476 AD?
("476, Rome was in a fix.")
While the west was flailing, Justinian built this magnificent church in Constantinople.
What is the Hagia Sophia? (And Lord let it become a church once again! Mrs. Henrie's dream is to visit this as a church before she departs this earth.)
The isle of saints and scholars. The place that, it can be argued, that their monks "saved western civilization."
What is Ireland?
Pope Gregory sent him as a missionary to Britain in 597 AD.
Who is Augustine of Kent?
The other name for the Byzantine (Roman) Empire.
What is the Eastern Roman Empire?
The years of the Middle Ages, describing the period between the end of the Ancient period and the Renaissance.
What are the years 500-1500 AD?
Tribe of people that early on kept invading eastern and southern Britain.
The Saxons.
The difference between Roman arches and Gothic arches.
Roman arches are rounded while Gothic arches come to a point in the center. (Gothic... from the Goths)
(The Gauls, Britons, and Irish were Celts. The Teutons were Germanic.) The other people helped make up the population of north central and eastern Europe, to whom SS Cyril and Methodius preached.
Who are the Slavs (which included places like Poland, Lithuania, Czechoslovakia, and Russia)?
Issued decrees to ban paganism and encourage Christianity after Constantine in the late 300s. (This is new information, but he is on page 125!)
Who is Emperor Theodosius?
The year Muhammad migrates from Mecca to Medina.
What is the year 622 AD?
Famous mosque that the Muslims built in Jerusalem.
What is the Dome of the Rock?
Common name for Britain King Ambrosius Aurelianus that lives on in this legend. (p. 175)
Who is King Arthur?