Kingdoms and Empires
Famous ruler of the Franks in late 700s that was crowned emperor by the pope in 800.
Who is Charlemagne?
What is Cenobitic Monasticism?
What is Feudalism?
Event in 1054 where the Eastern Orthodox Church split from the Catholic Church over religious and political disagreements?
What is the Great Schism?
Monasteries were centers of education and were very important for preserving historical records of the Ancient Greeks and Romans by doing this detailed work.
What is Copying Manuscripts?
Otto the Great, the German king of East Francia, established this empire in 962.
What is the Holy Roman Empire?
Monastic way of life established by St. Benedict of Nursia that balanced prayer and work and became a model for all monasteries in Europe.
What is the Benedictine Rule?
Economic system where peasants worked on a manor in exchange for protection from the local lord.
This empire was being attacked by the Seljuk Turks in the 1070s and asked Pope Urban II for help in defending the Holy Land.
What is the Byzantine Empire?
The practice of kings appointing and investing bishops in the Church.
What is Lay Investiture?
After Charlemagne's death, his empire broke apart into West Francia and East Francia. East Francia came to be ruled by German kings and was known as the Holy Roman Empire. West Franica eventually developed into this European nation.
What is France?
The Church became more centralized with church officials and doctrines centered around this strong church leader.
Who is the Pope?
Code of conduct of knights that included protecting the Church, women, and the vulnerable.
What is Chivalry?
These three Catholic orders of knights were formally recognized during the Crusades and defended the sick and pilgrims.
Who are the Templar, Hospitaller, and Teutonic Knights?
Guido of Arezzo, a Benedictine Monk, developed this modern system of writing in 1029 that we still use today.
What is Musical Notation?
After the Battle of Hastings in 1066, the Anglo-Saxons of England were conquered by William the Conqueror, who belonged to this group of people from France.
Who are the Normans?
The Church established these first modern institutions that cared for the sick, widows, orphans, and the poor.
This piece of land was ruled by a lord, usually had a castle, a church, and mill, and had peasants working in fields to grow food.
What is the Manor?
This Islamic leader retook Jerusalem in 1187 and allowed all Catholics to leave the city without being killed.
Who is Saladin?
Conflict in 11th Century where Pope Gregory VII and Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV disagreed on who should be able to appoint and invest bishops.
What is the Investiture Controversy?
in the 800s and 900s, these people invaded Central Europe and eventually established Hungary and converted to Catholicism.
Who are the Magyars?
During the Carolingian Renaissance, the Church set up these centers of education that taught subjects like astronomy, math, and rhetoric.
What are Cathedral Schools?
William the Conqueror instituted a strict form of feudalism in this country after his Norman forces conquered it in 1066.
What is England?
During the Fourth Crusade in 1204, Crusaders never made it to Jerusalem and instead attacked this capital of the Byzantine Empire resulting in the gap between the Catholic and Orthodox churches to widen.
What is Constantinople?
System of writing developed by monks that included lower case letters, blank spaces in between words, and punctuation.
What is Carolingian Miniscule?