Early Middle Ages

Terms

100

Muslim place of worship

mosque

200

property or money brought by a spouse to marriage

dowry

300

Viking men who memorized and recited traditions

scald

400

large tract of land give to someone to exercise control

fief

500

acquittal from a charge or accusation

compurgation

People

100

Bishop of Milan; wrote many church hymns

St. Ambrose

200

known for saving the Anglo-Saxons from the Danes

Alfred the Great

300

Frankish king; son of Charles Martel

Pepin the Short

400

the "scourge of God"

Attila

500

Frankish king who defeated the Moors

Charles Martel

Dates

100

476

fall of Rome

200

330

Constantinople becomes eastern capital

300

622

The Hegira; founding of Islam

400

800

Charlemagne crowned emperor

500

1060 

Battle of Hastings; Norman Invasion

Events

100

Vikings pillage and plunder an island off the East coast of Britannia

the first invasion of Lindesfarne

200

king sends missionary to the "Angels, not Angles"

Gregory the Great and Augustine in England

Geography

100

the queen of cities

Constantinople

200

the birthplace of Islam

Arabia

300

Justinian's territory

the Byzantine Empire

400

the "center of the world" during the Roman Empire

the Mediterranean Sea

500

where the Norseman settled and ruled

Normandy/Gaul/France