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| feudalism |
policical and social system that added stability |
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viking culture
impact of vikings on western europe |
mostly had a life at sea
men could buy women and sell them
prayed to paegan gods
eventauallyprayed to christian god
easily attacked divied empire
people feared them.
trade declined |
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| frankish kingdom collapsed? |
divided kingdom among heirs
3 fought eachother for land and power |
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| significance of battle of tours |
stopped islam from spreading into europe
ensured chrisitanity would remain dominant religion |
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porkchoppony Sun, 16 Nov 2008 23:41:43 GMT |
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| charlemagnes accomplishments |
doubled borders
made western europeans rulled by 1 governmae nt
very powerful
converted getrmans to christianity
made palace new center for leadning to educate officals |
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| order of frankish rulers |
clovis
charles martel
pepin the short
charlemagne |
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| scandinavia |
lands in northern europe where vikings came from
denmark
sweden
norway |
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| vikings |
warriors
from scandinavia
invaded western europe
kept europeans in a state of terror
that eventually turned into feudalism |
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porkchoppony Sun, 16 Nov 2008 23:37:33 GMT |
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| charlemagne |
most powerful king of franks
became holy roman emperor in ad 800
united western eurpe 1st time since rome fell
create4d empire
doubled borders
converted germanic ppl to chritianity
encouraged learning |
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| pepin the short |
king of franks
supported the pope
bound roman catholicism and western europe closly together |
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| Charles martel |
charles the hammer
defeated the muslims at the battle
of tours
ensured that islam wouldn't spread
into weatern europe and chrisitianity would remain the dominant religion |
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| clovis |
brutal warrior
king of franks
first germanic ruler to convert to
christianity |
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porkchoppony Sun, 16 Nov 2008 23:34:15 GMT |
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| Franks |
strongest of the germanic tribes
lived in what is now france and germany
became christian empire under charlemagne |
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porkchoppony Sun, 16 Nov 2008 23:34:15 GMT |
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| medieval |
latin for middle ages
a period of transition between ancient and modern times |
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| dark ages |
some scholars refferred to the early Middle Age as the dark age becuase of the cultural decay and political disorder that followed the fall of the Roman Empire |
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