9.1 Guided Reading
Transforming the Roman World
Name: ___________________
Read pages 302 – 306 and answer the following questions.
1.
Which peoples had begun to move into the lands of the Roman Empire by the 3rd century?
2. Who occupied Spain and Italy?
3. Which tribe took control of Italy in the 5th century?
4. Who was Clovis? What kingdom did he establish?
5. What did Clovis do that won him the support of the Roman Catholic Church?
6. By the year 510, what did Clovis establish?
Who was he able to defeat?
7. What happened after Clovis died?
8. Over time, who intermarried and began to create a new society?
9. In the Roman system, what was the punishment for a crime?
10. What happened, under Germanic law, when someone injured another person?
11. Explain the system of wergild?
12. What is the ordeal?
Give an example on an ordeal:
13. By the fourth century, what had become the supreme religion of the Roman Empire?
14. Explain the organization of the church (priests, parish, bishop, archbishop, etc.)
15. Who was considered the chief apostle and the first bishop of Rome?
16. What were the later bishops of Rome called (Peter’s successors)?
17. Which pope strengthened the power of the office of the pope?
What years was Gregory I the Pope of Rome?
Name three of his achievements as Pope:
a.
b.
c.
18. What is a monk?
19. What is monasticism?
20. What did Saint Benedict do?
a. What did Saint Benedict say about physical work?
b. Did the monks eat, work and worship alone or together?
c. What did monks eventually become in the eyes of others?
21. What are missionaries?
22. By 1050, most Europeans had become what?
23. Monks were men. What were the women called who joined the monastic movement?
24. Where did nuns live?