Vocabulary 1
An epidemic disease:
What is a plague
A rapid increase in prices:
What is inflation
__________ established the council and Creed of Nicaea.
Who is Theodosius
_________ is the head of the government in the early Christian Church.
Who is The Pope
_____________ settled in Spain.
Who are the Visigoths
Church leaders:
What is clergy
Regular church members:
What is laity
__________ was the first Roman Emperor to profess Christianity.
Who is Constantine
______________ was the last of four “Fathers” of the early Christian Church, became a monk, was elected pope, and shaped the medieval Church by strengthening papal authority over the European Church and by challenging secular state power
Who is Pope Gregory I
____________ settled in Britain.
Who are the Angles and Saxons or Anglo-Saxons
Practice of living the life of a monk:
What is monasticism
A person sent out to carry a religious message:
What is a missionary
_________ founded a monastic house and wrote a set of rules, which established the basic form of monastic life.
Who is Benedict
In the governmental structure of the church, who comes under the Pope?
__________ settled in France and western Germany.
Who are the Franks
In the Roman Empire, an official in charge of a province:
What is a procurator
A group of Christian communities, or parishes, under the authority of a bishop:
What is a bishopric
When ______________ became Emperor, he reestablished the Roman Empire in the entire Mediterranean world.
Who is Justinian
In the governmental structure of the church, who comes under the Bishop?
___________ settled in Italy.
A means of determining guilt in Germanic law; based on the idea of divine intervention:
What is an ordeal
The head of the Eastern Orthodox Church, originally appointed by the Byzantine Emperor:
What is a patriarch
_________ is a strong military leader, defeated neighboring Germanic tribes, established the Frankish kingdom, was the first Germanic ruler to convert to Christianity, and gained the support of the Roman Catholic Church.
Who is Clovis
Justinian’s most important contribution to the Eastern Roman Empire is_______________________
What is The Body of Civil Law
____________ called for a violent overthrow of Roman rule.
Who are the Zealots