Rome's Three Heirs
A fusion of Greek and Christian culture.
What is the culture of Byzantium?
The dynasty of Frankish kings launched by Clovis.
What is the Merovingian dynasty?
He defeated the last Anglo-Saxon King Harold II in England at the Battle of Hastings in 1066.
Who is William I the Conqueror (William of Normandy)?
The Crusades began as a series of military campaigns launched by Christians against them.
Who are the Muslims?
This was a woman's primary role at the time of the Italian Renaissance.
What is to marry and bear children?
He divided the Roman Empire into two parts, East and West, in 298.
Who is Diocletian?
The first Carolingian king to be anointed in a holy ceremony by a pope in 754.
Who is Pippin III the Short?
The Magna Carta (1215) was drawn up in this country.
What is England?
Pope Urban II launched the Crusades at this council in 1095.
What is the Council of Clermont?
They were a bourgeois family who controlled Florence and established a banking empire.
Who are the Medicis?
The city that was the heart of Byzantium (the eastern half of the Roman Empire).
What is Constantinople?
A monk who lived for three decades in a basket atop a pillar over 60 feet high.
Who is Saint Simeon the Stylite?
The Gothic style of architecture emerged in this country.
What is France?
They won the Battle Crécy (1346) and the Battle of Agincourt (1415) during the Hundred Years’ War (1337-1453).
Who are the English?
A literary movement that fused literary creation with political action and encouraged intellectuals to participate in public life.
What is civic humanism?
The Visigothic mercenary who invaded Greece, and sacked the city of Rome in 410.
Who is Alaric?
An accomplished nun who became a mystic, composer and poet.
Who is Saint Hildegard of Bingen
These Spanish monarchs completed the reconquista, or the Christian reconquest of Spain, from the Muslims in 1492.
Who are Isabella I and Ferdinand II?
She was a French peasant who liberated Orléans from the English, and was later burned at the stake.
Who is Joan of Arc (1412-31)?
He is considered the father of Renaissance humanism.
Who is Petrarch?
The prophet Muhammad’s journey from Mecca to Medina in 622.
What is the Hegira?
The Viking leader who founded the duchy of Normandy in the lower Seine region (France) in 911.
Who is Rollo?
Grammar, arithmetic, geometry, music, astronomy, rhetoric, logic.
What were the 7 liberal arts?
In the aftermath of the Hundred Years’ War, England became embroiled in this series of civil wars.
What are the Wars of the Roses (1455-85)?
This book is believed to have been the first book produced with movable type in the west.
What is Gutenberg's bible?