The Dark Ages?
Kings and Kingdoms
Those Carolingians
The Church
What happened to Rome?
100
Melted down Roman coins to make beautiful Gold objects (and conquered all of Asia, and stretched into Eastern Europe)
Who are the Huns?
100
First Christian King of the Franks
What is Clovis?
100
"The Hammer"
Who is Charles Martel?
100
Sent Augustine of Canturbury to missionize in England.
Who is Pope Gregory the Great
100
The Roman Empire continued in the East until the 15th c, called this.
What is Byzantium?
200
Their monasticism was more eremitic than Britain and the mainland, and clergy dared to wear their hair not in the Roman "tonsure" style.
What is Ireland/Irish Christianity/Celtic Christianity?
200
The term for Christianization by mandate from the top-down, by a ruler who makes Christianity the "official" religion of an entire realm.
What is Territorial Christianity?
200
Asked Pope Zachary to make him King, because he already had the power.
Who is Pepin the Short
200
The Synod of Whitby gathered to settle what?
What are the ways in which the English church would practice Catholicism (Irish vs. Roman), specifically concerning the calculation of the date of Easter and clerical tonsures (shaving of hair).
200
Emperor Justinian's wife who helped reform the Eastern church and engaged in charitable activities in Constantinople.
Who is Theodora?
300
Romance languages emerged as a result of what?
What is the regionalization of the world and the spoken Latin language, and a decline in formal Latin grammar education?
300
The leaders of this Germanic people took the city of Rome in the 5th c, then settled in Spain in the 6th c.
What are the Visigoths?
300
Developed an administrative government which centered on the Latin language, and encouraged education in the Liberal Arts at court.
Who is Charlemagne?
300
Eventually the Church secured land territory in central Italy. what was this called?
What are the Papal States?
300
New seat of imperial government in the west (Exarchate), a city in NE Italy famous for its gorgeous mosaics.
What is Ravenna?
400
Tolkien based Rohan in part on the Anglo-Saxon Rulers here.
What is Great Britain?
400
Queens often acted as ....... in her official role on behalf of her husband's subjects, and in her relationship to God.
What is intercessor?
400
What happened on Christmas Day, 800?
What is Charlemagne crowned Holy Roman Emperor in Rome by Pope Leo III
400
Explain Gregory the Great's articulation of the separation of the two powers.
What is Emperor=God's representative in Earthly affairs (temporal) Pope= God's representative in Spiritual affairs
400
The cessation of imperial tax collection and coin circulation led to these social/economic changes (name at least 2)
What is infrastructure/roads deteriorated, movement out of cities to rural areas, trade diminished (got more localized), regionalized governments, more?
500
Migrated through Europe, down through Spain, and conquered Roman N. Africa. Ruled with cultural continuity.
Who are the Vandals?
500
The name of Islamic Spain until 1492
What is Al-Andalus?
500
Came before the Carolingians in Ruling the Frankish Kingdom
What is the Merovingians?
500
"Micro-Christendoms"
What is Peter Brown's articulation of how Christianity grew from various regional centers and multiplied and replicated across the map of Western Europe, like a"web with no center" . It had both regional distinction and unifying orthodoxy which made it particularly adaptable to spreading.
500
Classical learning and educational traditions were maintained primarily via this institution after the Fall of Rome.
What is monasticism?
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