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Jeopardy 09
Early Cultures in Europe
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History
10th Grade
04/11/2007

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Primary occupation of German men
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warrior
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Members of German society who did most of the work
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women and slaves
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Basic unit of Germna society
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clan (tribe)
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German tribe that used its kingdom in North Africa as a base for pirate raids
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Vandals
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Form of government set up by invading Germans
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kingdom
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Fierce nomadic people from Asia who invaded Europe
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Huns
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Term formerly used for the Early Middle Ages
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Dark Ages
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River valley along the Roman Empire's border where many Germans settled
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Danube
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Chief German god
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Woden
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God of war and thunder
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Thor
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East Goths, driven westward by the Huns
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Ostrogoths
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West Goths; they capture and plundered Rome
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Visigoths
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A German tribe gave its name to this word; the willful and senseless destruction of property
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vandalism
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European country occupied by Romans, then Vandals, then Visitgoths
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Spain
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State of European society after the German invasions destroyed the Roman Empire
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anarchy
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Why the Germans didn't write their own history
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they had no written language
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Where German warriors expected to spend their afterlife
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Valhalla
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Visitgoth king who led the sack of Rome in 410
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Alaric
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Source of German law
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people
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German tibe that moved across the Alps into northern Italy
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Lombards
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German tribe that moved into central Gaul
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Burgundians
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Religion the Frankish king and his warriors converted to
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Christianity
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Institution that supported the Franks after they converted
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Church
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Modern-day country that takes its name from the Franks
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France
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Religion the invading Arabs hoped to spread throughout Europe
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Islam
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English translation of both Charlemagne and Karl der Grosse
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Charles the Great
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River along which the Franks lived
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Rhine
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King who first brought all Franks under one rule
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Clovis
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Two characterisitcs shared by most Franks that helped them to feel united
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common religion and language
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Modern country that developed from the Western Frankish kingdom
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France
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Modern country that developed from the Eastern Frankish kingdom
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Germany
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Leader who defeated the invading Arabs
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Charles Martel
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Battle of 732 in which the invading Arabs were defeated
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Battle of Tours
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First Frankish king personally crowned by the pope
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Pepin (the Short or III)
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Frankish king who became "Emperor of the Romans"
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Charlemagne
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The invading peoples defeated by Charlemagne
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Lombards, Saxons, Slavs, Avars, Arabs (Muslims)
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Charlemagne made this available even to some lower-class children
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education
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Charlemagne's only surviving son
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Louis the Pious
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Agreement that ivided the empire among Charlemagne's three grandsons
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Treaty of Verdun
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Capital of the Frankish kingdom under Clovis
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Paris
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Charlemagne's capital city
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Aix-la-Chapelle
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Asian invaders who reminded Europeans of the Huns
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Magyars
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Early inhabitants of Britain, who were conquered by Romans
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Celts
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Three Germanic tribes that invaded Britain around 450
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Angles, Saxons, and Jutes
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Tribe that gave its name to England
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Angles
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Lands the Celts fled to from Britain
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Wales, Western Scotland, and Ireland
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Famed missionary who brought Christianity to Ireland
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St.Patrick
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Status of most English people
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peasant class
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The two peoples of northern Britain (modern Scotland)
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Picts and Scots
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Body of water crossed bythe tribes that invaded Britain
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North Sea
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Centers of culture in Ireland
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monastaries
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Head missionary to Anglo-Saxons
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St. Augustine
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Center of the Christian churhc in England, as established by Augustine
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Canterbury
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King of Wessex who fought the invading Vikings
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Alfred the Great
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English term for invading Vikings
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Danes
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Epic Anglo-Saxon poem
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Beowulf
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Local districts of England
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shires
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Officials who governed local districts in England
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sheriffs
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Body of water between Britain and Ireland
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Irish Sea
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Important kingdom in northern England
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Northumbria
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Important kingdom in central England
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Mercia
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Important kingdom in southern England
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Wessex
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Pope who decided to convert the Anglo-Saxons to Christianity
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Gregory I
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Anglo-Saxon king who allowed the missionaries to teach about Christianity
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Ethelbert, king of Kent
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Northeastern region of England ruled by the Vikings
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Danelaw
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Europeans' term for Vikings
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Norsemen (Northmen)
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Far northern Europe
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Scandinavia
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A characterisitc of Vikings that terrified Europeans
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brutal and pitiless in fighting
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What the Vikings used much of their abundant timber for
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shipbuilding
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Occupation of seafaring Vikings in addition to raiding
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trade
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Primary occupation of Viking men
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warrior
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An advantage of Viking raids for Europeans
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opening of trade routes, learning shipping skills
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The three kingdoms of the Vikings
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Norway
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Vikings had none of these for their children
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schools
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King of the gods
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Odin (Wotan)
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God of thunder and lightning
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Thor
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Body of water crossed by Viking raiders heading toward Russia
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Batlic Sea
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Norwegian adventurer who founded a colony on Greenland
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Eric the Red
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The two North Atlantic islands colonized by Norwegian Vikings
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Greenland and Iceland
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Eric the Red's son, who saield to North America
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Leif Eriksson
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Vikings' name for the sport on the coast of North America where they landed
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Vinland
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Body of water the Vikings crossed to get to Greenland and North America
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Atlantic Ocean
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Viking letters of the alphabet
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runes
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Heroic or mythic poems of the Vikings
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Eddas
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Heroic stories of the Vikings
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sagas
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Danish ruler who became king of England
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Canute
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Area of France where Danes settled in large numbers
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