Rulers
Economy and Society
Political Organization
Culture
Territory
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Who was the first monarch of the Carolingian dynasty?
Pippin I the Younger
100
What was the main economic activity of the Carolingian empire?
Agriculture
100
What is the meaning of "dynasty"?
A series of rulers from the same family
100
What cultures were revived during the Carolingian Renaissance?
Classical (Greek and Roman) cultures
100
Who governed counties?
Counts
200
What was the name of Pippin's son who succeeded the throne when he died?
Charlemagne
200
What was the structure of Carolingian society?
Hierarchical
200
What dynasty rules in present-day Spain?
The Bourbon dynasty
200
What is the name of this kind of script?
Carolingian minuscule
200
Who governed duchies?
Dukes
300
What was one of Charlemagne's achievements?
-Extended the empire to the Elbe and Danube rivers
-Defeated the Lombards definitively
-Promoted the conversion of the Saxons and the Slavs to Christianity
300
What social class ranked the highest in Carolingian society?
The Emperor
300
What did nobles (duques, counts and marquises) have to do in exchange for land?
They had to swear their loyalty to the emperor
300
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What is the name of text illustrations with small drawings like this one?
Miniatures
300
Who governed marches?
Marquises
400
Who supported Pippin's fight for legitimacy and why?
The Pope, because Pippin helped him defeat the Lombards and gave land to the church
400
What social class ranked the lowest in Carolingian society?
The serfs
400
What is the name of a person in the highest-ranking political office?
Chancellor
400
What did royal officials and clergy learn about at the Palatine School in Aquisgranum?
The liberal arts (grammar, rhetoric, and logic; geometry, arithmetic, and logic; reading and analyzing texts)
400
What territories were conquered by Charlemagne?
The territory controlled by the Saxons and Ostrogoths
500
What is one reason why the Pope name Charlemagne emperor?
-Because Charlemagne was in Rome at that moment, the city where the Roman emperors lived
-Because Charlemagne controlled Italy, Gaul, and Germany
500
Who did the land belong to and what did it consist of?
Land belonged to the high clergy and the nobility and consisted of the demesne and tenements
500
What was the name of a couple composed of a secular inspector (a count) and a religious inspector (a bishop) sent by the monarch to supervise how duques, counts and marquises governed the land?
Missi Dominici
500
What four styles of architecture/art are used in the Palatine Chapel at Aquisgranum?
Classical, Germanic, Byzantine, and Muslim
500
Name 3 territories that the Carolingian Empire dominated.
Kingdom of the Franks, Burgundians and Frisians, part of the kingdom of the Visigoths and Ostrogoths, and part of the territory controlled by the Saxons and Slavs