A type of art in which small pieces of tile and glass is arranged to create an image
What is a mosaic?
100
Northwest to Scotland, all lands bordering the Mediterranean Sea, southeast down the Nile River into Egypt and East to Syria.
What is the maximum extent of the Roman Empire.
100
Inability for cities to defend themselves against raiders.
What is reason cities broke up and population became rural in the beginning of the Middle ages?
100
The last surviving institution of the Roman Empire and the only institution in Medieval Europe that had influence in all of Europe.
What is Roman Catholic Church
100
Supreme leader of the Roman Catholic church, picked and assisted by cardinals and viewed as God's representative on Earth.
Who is the pope?
200
An architectural feature based on an arch that is modified so that supports are arranged in a complete circle.
What is a dome?
200
How many years ago the Roman empire was established?
What is 2041 years ago?
200
Three groups of invaders that attacked Europe.
Who are the Vikings, the Muslims and the Magyars?
200
One of the reasons the Church was very rich and which required all people to turn over 10% of their income to the Church.
What is the tithe?
200
Kings wanted to appoint priests and bishops, often favoring certain family members or selling these offices to the highest bidder.
What is a main reason why the Church and Kings came into conflict.
300
An engineering accomplishment that supplied cities with fresh water that had its origins far away.
What is an aqueduct?
300
Wars between opposing factions and appointment of weak emperors who supported the military but did little to make decisions needed for wisely governing the empire.
What is lack of a good succession system for choosing emperors?
300
Social System based on distinct social classes that banded together to protect distinct areas of Europe from invaders.
What is Feudalism?
300
People were anxious to assure their entrance into heaven, administration of the sacraments, taking care of the poor and sick, keeping public records, administering education.
Why was the church important in the daily lives of people in Europe?
300
Pope Gregory excommunicated this King who was angry over rules prohibiting kings from picking priests and bishops?
Who is Henry IV?
400
Language spoken in Rome that gave rise to some 40% of the words in English and was the source of the French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and Romanian languages spoken today.
What is Latin?
400
Most roman citizens were poor because of the need to support a large military and inability to economically compete.
What is the effect high taxes and slavery on roman citizens?
400
In the Feudal system, the group that were given land (with the serfs that lived on that land) in exchange for protecting the kingdom by raising armies of knights.
What is a Lord?
400
Part of the church hierarchy which was usually made up of the sons of noble families in Europe.
What are priests, bishops, cardinals and popes.
400
This man, who eventually would be designated as a Saint, wrote logical arguments showing how reason and faith could work together helping to conserve philosophy in the middle ages and setting the stage for the next phase of European history.
Who is St. Tomas of Aquinas
500
The idea that every person has rights is based based on this Roman belief?
What is the Universal Law of Justice?
500
Emperor who moved the capital eastward, cutting Rome off from taxes and wealth found in the Eastern Mediterranean, making it hard to support a military that could defend it from invading Germans.
Who is Constantine?
500
The most important King of the Francs that helped build the Holy Roman Empire and helped pioneer the use of feudalism in raising armies of knights to protect against invaders.
Who is Charlemagne?
500
Part of the church hierarchy drawn from poor people and who did most of the work within the church.