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Unit 4 Merging Byzantium
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10th Grade
11/12/2015

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When dealing with crime the Germans originally used blood feuds or eye for an eye mentality. Later, they developed a __________ that would be an amount of money for wrongdoing.
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Wergild
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_______________ created the Carolingian Empire (largest until Napoleon) and was granted the title of Holy Roman Emperor on 12/25/800.
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Charlemagne
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In order to determine guilt in the Germanic society, __________ or physical trials that were based on the idea of divine intervention (i.e. grabbing a hot iron) were used.
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Ordeal
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Monastic movement was the practice of removing oneself from society and dedicating your life to God that was greatly influenced by Saint ___________ with his "rules" for monks' behavior.
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Benedict
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Frankish rulers lost power to their major domo or mayor of the palace. One such domo that took the power from the Merovingians was Charles Martel's son, ___________ the Short.
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Pepin
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The beginning of strong politically and spiritually influential popes started with _______________ I.
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Gregory
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In the Monastic movement, monks and nuns did a variety of things for European society. What is one thing they did?
Definition
Provided schools and hospitals
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As the Roman Empire fell, the Church grew in power with the Bishop of Rome or __________ in charge.
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Pope
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Nuns lived in convents called?
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Abbesses
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By being the first Germanic ruler to be Christian, _________ was able to gain favor with the Roman Catholic Church and create a vast kingdom by 510 AD.
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Clovis
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In the new system, there were lords who promised _______ (really the only valuable commodity at the time besides loyalty) to those that would promise to fight and protect them.
Definition
land
Term
The ___________ were a successful Scandinavian peoples that were skilled warriors, master boat builders, and most likely settled due to trade being easier than pillaging.
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Vikings
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______________ were a place for the knights of the age to show off skills and train.
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Tournaments
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The new social/political order that emerged after the Carolingian Empire weakened causing disorder and invaders made the local areas unsafe was called ______________.
Definition
Feudalism
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Giving an oath to your lord would make you a ____________ which originally came from Germanic warriors' oath to their leader.
Definition
Vassal
Term
Two ways to keep a system built on war from always fighting was to grant titles of nobility and for knights to keep a strict oath/code of ___________ that says they will defend the Church, protect the defenseless, treat captured with hospitality (kindness), and treat women with respect.
Definition
Chivalry
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Which is true about those that fought in wars during the middle ages?
Definition
They were rich nobles.
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The land that you owned would be called a ______ which gave you political, economic, and social power over that land.
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fief
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As we saw with Charlemagne, the __________ (person or place) has the most power in this new social and political system because of the impact they/it has on the entire society.
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Pope/Church
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When William of Normandy takes over England he does several things to give the central government more power. Which of the following was NOT one of them?
Definition
Required all nobles to intermarry with French noble women to create a united society.
Term
Under Philip IV (Fair), France increased its bureaucracy by creating its own parliament called the _______-__________ (meeting of all 3 classes).
Definition
Estates-General
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Under Edward I, England created its own Parliament consisting of two houses making it bicameral. The upper house of nobles and bishops was called the House of _________ and the lower house of knights and townspeople was called the House of ___________.
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Lords; Commons
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Under King John's tyrannical rule, English nobles forced him to sign the ____________ or Great Charter in ______ (year) in order to list their rights in a document and limit the king's power.
Definition
Magna Carta; 1215
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The Holy Roman Empire was reorganized under ________ who unified German culture and the Church, eventually being crowned the Holy Roman Emperor in 962.
Definition
Otto I
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Issues between Thomas a Becket and King ________ over where clergy should be tried and punished ended in the king's knights killing Thomas a Becket in Canterbury.
Definition
Henry II
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In _____ (year), William of Normandy defeated King Harold at the Battle of __________ which set up a strong England.
Definition
1066; Hastings
Term
The Poles, Czechs, Hungarians, Bosnians, Serbians, Bulgarians, Kievian, and Russian are all collectively a part of the same group of people called the ________.
Definition
Slavs
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What was a problem that the Byzantium Empire faced?
Definition
Threats from the Muslims
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___________ was the ruler of Byzantium in 527 who put down the Nika Revolt and codified the law.
Definition
Justinian I
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The issues between the Roman Catholic Church in the west and the Greek/Eastern Orthodox Church in the east lead to a ________ or separation between them.
Definition
schism
Term
Constantinople falls twice. Once in 1204 to armies from the west and _______ (year) to the ____________.
Definition
1453; Ottoman Turks
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____________ was the Muslim leader in control of Jerusalem in 1187.
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Saladin
Term
Pope ____________ was started the wars against the Muslims in Jerusalem.
Definition
Urban II
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The difference between the West and East when it came to religion was that the emperor was in charge of the society and he appointed the head of the church that is called a ___________.
Definition
Patriarch
Term
The __________ were from the 11th to 13th centuries.
Definition
Crusades
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The leader of the Muslims in 1187 made a peace treaty with King ____________ (Roman numeral or nickname is fine).
Definition
Richard I or Lionhearted
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