Germans!
Name of the mythical destination for the brave men who fought and died on the battlefield.
What is Valhalla?
Name of the Peninsula that the Visigoth Kingdom would develop and flourish in.
What is the Iberian Peninsula?
The Vandals eventual homeland after being forced out of Hispania by the Visigoths.
What was North Africa?
This king is known for killing his cousins and rivals in order to secure his claim to kingship over the Franks.
Who was Clovis?
Who was Theodoric?
A being who has more power than a human but less than a god.
What is a demigod?
King of the Visigoths who converted to Catholicism in 589 at the Third Council of Toledo.
Who was King Raccared?
Crippled leader of the Vandals who conquered much of North Africa, Sarndinia and Corsica, Sicily, and later looted Rome.
Who was Genseric?
Who were the mayors of the palace?
The last emperor of the western roman empire.
Who was Romulus Augustulus?
The three ways to prove your innocence under German law.
What are the oath, ordeal, and the combat?
Capital of the Visigothic Hispania.
What was Toledo?
Famous Pope who bribed the Vandals to not kill people as they looted Rome.
Who was Pope St. Leo?
Crowned by St. Boniface at Reims in 751, this person became the first Carolingian king of the Franks.
Who was Pepin the Short?
Gothic king who removed the last western roman emperor and declares himself king.
Who was Odoacer?
Before descending unto Roman lands, the german peoples were allowed to settle along this major river.
What was the Danube?
Famous Saint and son of Severianus who wrote the Etymologies.
Who was St. Isadore?
Eastern Roman emperor who stopped the Vandals in 533.
Who was Justinian?
Son of a mayor of the palace whose name means hammer.
Who was Charles Martel?
The Ostrogothic capital in Italy.
What was Ravenna?
The gods of a people or nation; also a temple dedicated to all the gods
What is a pantheon?
Infamous Visigothic King who tried to force Arianism on his Catholic subjects, fought his son Hermenegild after his conversion to Catholicism, and crushed the rebellion that followed.
Who was Leovigild?
Who was Emperor Gratian?
Famous queen who convinced her husband that a conversion to Catholicism would guarantee his success in battle against the Alamanni.
Who was Clotilde?
Father of the last emperor of the western roman empire who is beheaded for his attempts to secure his son's throne.
Who was Orestes?