OWH- Middle Ages

Vulhala was the place a Viking would go if he died in battle, whether a loss or victory.

Where did the Vikings come from?

What makes the Dark Ages dark? (multiple possible)

Why did the Frankish kingdom expand? (multiple possible)

The spread of Islam into Europe declined after the Battle of Tours in 732 A.D.

Christianity fell from the Byzantine Empire to the Magyars.

What year were the Magyars defeated in a battle by Otto I?

What was the name of the land that the Frankish king offered the Vikings in exchange for peace?

What contributed to the decline of the Byzantine empire? (multiple possible)

What led to the meteoric growth of Islam? (multiple possible)

What present-day country became the kingdom of the Magyars?

What describes the patriarch, the head of the east half?

Pippin the Younger destroyed the Lombards in Italy, and he gave a piece of land to be the papal states.

The Battle of Tours in 732 AD was Islam vs Christianity, and it saved Christianity in Europe.

Why did the conquering by the Vikings slow down? (multiple possible)

Christianity fell with the Roman Empire.

Jihad is war, but not for a holy purpose.

What does "Renaissance" mean?

Who was the first contender for the Roman remains from 500 to 600 A.D.?

A moor is a Christian from northern Africa.

Muslims were tolerant of Judaism and Christianity because they were monotheistic.

"Viking" means men of the Viks, and a Vik is an inlet or fjord.

What does "medieval" mean?

Approximately how long was Gaul a Roman province?

What group did NOT make up Spain during the Middle Ages?

When did Otto the Great reign as the last Holy Roman Emperor?

Charlemagne ruled as king of the Franks from 768 to 814 A.D.

"Norse" means men of the North.

What is the only papal state left today?

What people contributed to the centralization of the Franks?

When was the first recorded raid of the Vikings?

Which is true of the Justinian plague? (multiple possible)

Louis the Pious, son of Charlegmane, had 3 sons that divided the kingdom of the Franks.

Clovis ruled the Frankish tribes from 481 to 511 A.D.

What area did the Magyars come from?

Where did Charlemagne create a mini Renaissance?

What year was Charlegmagne crowned by the pope as the first Holy Roman Emperor?

Rome lasted from 509 B.C. to 476 A.D., roughly 1000 years.

The third contender was the Vikings, from 793 to 1066 A.D.

What year did Charles Martel become chieftain of the Frankish tribes?

Which of these describes the pope, the head of the west?

The winner of west Rome was the Roman remnants plus the settled Barbaric tribes.

The development of France in the west began in 1050 A.D.

Which of these describes Clovis? (multiple possible)

Charles in Latin is Carolus.

When did the Vikings reach Paris?

The High Middle Ages were from 1000 to 1500 A.D.

The Magyars were the final contenders, from late 800s to 1200.

When did Justinian rule the Byzantine empire?

843 A.D. is the year claimed as the beginning of modern Europe.

The Holy Roman Empire remained in the middle and east.

The Muslim Empire was the second contender, spreading from 610 to 732 A.D.

The Middle Ages were from 500 to 1500 A.D.

Charlemagne used jihad to double the size of the Frankish kingdom and converted people to Christianity.

What is true about Muhammed? (multiple possible)

The Dark Ages were from 500 to 1000 A.D.

After Clovis died, his 4 sons maintained centralization of the Franks.

The bookends of the Middle Ages are the Roman Empire and the Renaissance.

"Subsistence" farming is growing just enough to get by.