The Carolingians
Who was crowned the first Holy Roman Emperor on Christmas Day in the year 800?
Charlemagne
Which region of Europe are the Vikings originally descended from?
Scandanavia
The best known of the Saxon kings was who?
Otto I
By the Eighth Century which empire had lost most of its territory to the Slavs, Bulgars, and Muslims?
The Byzantine Empire
Pepin the Short
What is one common explanation for the movement of Vikings out of Scandinavia?
Overpopulation
Otto I defeated which people at the Battle of Lechfeld in 955?
Magyars
The majority Southern and Eastern Slavs converted to which branch of Christianity?
Eastern Orthodox or Greek Orthodox
In 843, after the death of Charlemagne, his three surviving sons signed what?
The Treaty of Verdun
The Vikings were able to travel and settle as far east as which region or empire?
The Byzantine Empire or Central Asia
Which West Saxon king defeated the Danish army in 879, and helped to unify the Angles and Saxons into one kingdom?
Alfred the Great
The Russians, White Russians, and Ukrainians were a part of which Slavic group?
The Eastern Slavs
What were the two distinct cultures that emerged as a result of the disintegration of the Carolingian Empire?
French and German
Beginning in 911, the ruler of the western Frankish lands gave one band of Vikings land at the mouth of the Seine River, forming a section of France that ultimately came to be known as what?
Normandy
Alfred also believed in the power of education, so he had the Bible and other church works translated from Latin to which common language?
Anglo-Saxon or Old English
Which Slavic leader took up residence in Kiev and created the Rus state?
Oleg the Wise
What were the names of the kingdoms of the three heirs to the Carolingian dynasty
Eastern, Middle, Western
Erik the Red, a Viking exiled from Iceland, traveled west and discovered which other region (nation) in 985?
Greenland
Although Anglo-Saxon England had a well-developed and strong monarchical government and the kingship was elective, who were the only people chosen for the position?
Descendants of Alfred the Great
Which Rus ruler married the Byzantine emperor’s sister officially accepted Christianity for himself and people in 987?
Vladimir the Great