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The East
Death and Destruction
The Germanic Kingdoms
Feudalism/
Manorialism
Religion
100
The eastern Roman Empire was preserved in the form of this new Empire.
What is the Byzantine Empire?
100
The Germanic Invasions caused a _______ in trade.
What is decrease?
100
This person reunited the Germanic Kingdoms into a new empire.
Who is Charlemagne?
100
This person received land from a lord.
What is a vassal?
100
This person was the head of the Catholic Church in the west.
Who is the pope?
200
This city was the political, cultural, and religious capital of the Byzantine Empire.
What is Constantinople?
200
This disease entered Constantinople through trade with Egypt.
What is Justinian's Plague?
200
This person tried to bring about a revival of education and classical literature.
Who is Charlemagne?
200
This economic system supported the social order of the Middle Ages.
What is manorialism or the manor system.
200
The Church used these three main strategies to unite feudal society.
Shared beliefs, sense of community, and social control.
300
In order to create one uniform code of law, a Byzantine Emperor had a group of lawyers assemble this.
What is Justinian's Code?
300
The plague affected the economics of the Byzantine Empire by ___________.
What is reducing trade?
300
The Germanic Invasions and the breakup of the west into Germanic Kingdoms led to the development of these kind of communities.
What are small, rural communities?
300
This code of behavior set the standards for nobles during the Middle Ages.
What is chivalry?
300
After the Great Schism, the Byzantine Empire turned to this religion.
What is the Greek/Eastern Orthodox Church?
400
Where as in the west Latin was the language of the church, in the east, the language of the church became _________.
What is Greek or the language of the people?
400
The invasion of these three peoples led to mass chaos after the fall of Charlemagne's Empire.
Who are the Vikings, Muslims, and Magyars?
400
This agreement divided Charlemagne's Empire into three pieces and led to its fall.
What is the Treaty of Verdun?
400
These peasants were not slaves, but were bound to the land.
What are serfs?
400
The use of these objects caused the Great Schism.
What are icons?
500
The Empress Theodora worked to promote rights for these members of society.
Who are women?
500
____________ caused people to lose faith in the government and the church.
What is Justinian's Plague?
500
Charlemagne limited the power of nobles and traveled all over his empire to create this.
What is a strong central government.
500
Manorial communities were _______________, meaning that they did not need to rely on trade.
What is self sufficient?
500
In the west, there was a separation of church and state. In the east, the church and state were both ruled by this person.
Who is the emperor?