Fall of Rome
This city was the center of the Western Roman Empire and gave the empire its name.
What is Rome?
After Rome fell, Western Europe was divided into several of these political areas ruled by different groups.
What are kingdoms?
This religion continued to spread throughout Europe after the fall of the Western Roman Empire.
What is Christianity?
This is the act of protecting important ideas and information so they are not lost over time.
What is preserving knowledge?
This Germanic group settled in Britain after the fall of the Western Roman Empire.
Who are the Anglo-Saxons?
This event traditionally marks the end of the Western Roman Empire in 476 CE.
What is the fall of the Western Roman Empire?
After the fall of Rome, people increasingly depended on these smaller communities rather than large cities and a central government.
What are local communities?
This organized religious institution became an important source of stability in Western Europe after Rome fell.
What is the Catholic Church?
This is a place where monks lived, worked, and worshipped.
What is a monastery?
This Germanic group established a kingdom in Spain after the fall of the Western Roman Empire.
Who are the Visigoths?
In 476 CE, this Germanic leader removed the last Western Roman emperor, Romulus Augustulus.
Who is Odoacer?
As trade declined after Rome fell, many of these centers of population and commerce became smaller and less important.
What are cities?
This religion continued to spread throughout Europe after the fall of the Western Roman Empire.
What is Christianity?
These religious men often lived in monasteries and copied manuscripts by hand.
Who are monks?
This Germanic group established an important kingdom in Gaul and was led by Clovis.
Who are the Franks?
After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, this type of political group replaced Roman control in many parts of Western Europe.
What are Germanic kingdoms?
This economic change occurred after Rome fell, making it more difficult for goods to travel between distant parts of Europe.
What is the decline of long-distance trade?
These people traveled to different areas to spread Christianity and convert others to the religion.
Who are missionaries?
These handwritten books and documents were copied by monks to help preserve knowledge.
What are manuscripts?
This Germanic group established a kingdom in Italy and was ruled by Theodoric the Great.
Who are the Ostrogoths?
This major political change occurred in Western Europe after the fall of the Western Roman Empire and led to the creation of several new kingdoms.
What is the replacement of Roman rule by Germanic kingdoms?
These three areas of life were all affected by the fall of the Western Roman Empire: government, the economy, and people's daily lives.
What are politics, economics, and society?
This institution remained organized after the fall of Western Rome and helped provide stability while missionaries continued spreading Christianity.
What is the Christian Church?
Monks in these places helped preserve knowledge by copying and protecting written manuscripts.
What are monasteries?
This Frankish ruler converted to Christianity, helping strengthen the relationship between the Franks and the Christian Church.
Who is Clovis?