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World History:
Western Civilization
Chapter 5 Study Guide
On the Eve of the Frankish Ascendancy
1. What is the name of the period between the end of the ancient world and the birth of the Middle Ages (250-800 A.D.)?
2.
What group of people pushed the Germanic tribes up against the Roman Empire?
3.
What battle resulted in the defeat of the Romans and the death of Emperor Valens by the Visigoths in 378 A.D.?
4.
5.
Which tribe crossed the Rhine in 406 and within three decades gained control in northwest Africa and much of the Mediterranean
and later sacked the city of Rome in 455 A.D.?
Which tribe settled in northern and central Gaul?
6.
List five Germanic tribes that invaded the Roman Empire in the fourth and fifth centuries:
7.
Which king of the Visigoths led the Sacking of Rome in 410 A.D.?
8.
Who was the last Roman Emperor?
9.
Which barbarian deposed Romulus Augustus and became the first non-Roman to rule Italy?
10. When was the fall of the Western Roman Empire?
11. Which king of the Ostrogoths replaced Odovacer as the ruler of Rome with the full acceptance of the Roman people, the emperor
in Constantinople, and the Christian Church?
12. What two tribes settled in England?
13. What version of Christianity did the Visigoths, Ostrogoths, and Vandals adopt and was declared heretical at the Council of Nicaea
in 325?
14. Which two tribes became more Romanized than the Romans were Germanized?
15. List three Roman feature that triumphed in the West during the Middle Ages:
The Byzantine Empire
16. What name was given to the Eastern Roman Empire (324-1453)?
17. What was the capitol of the Byzantine Empire and was formally known as Byzantium?
18. Who was the greatest Eastern Roman Emperor and reigned from 527-565?
19. Who was his co-ruler? What was her relation to him?
20. What massive tax riot broke out in 532 and threatened to destroy Constantinople and the reign of Justinian the Great?
21. What was the name given to the compilation of law by Justinian the Great?
22. What church was built by Justinian the Great in 537, and is known as a masterpiece of Byzantine architecture?
23. What did this Eastern Roman Emperor unify in 554 A.D.?
24. What was the Church of the Eastern Roman Empire and was also known as Byzantine Christianity?
Western Society and the Developing Christian Church
25. What was the name of the Christian church in Western Europe?
26. What movement in the Christian church arose in the 3rd and 4th centuries in which communities of men and women separated
themselves from the world to lead lives in imitation of Christ?
27. Who established the basic form of monasticism in the Catholic Church which was outlined in his book Rule for Monasteries?
28. What doctrine declared that the Roman pope was the ultimate definer of church doctrine?
29. Which city declared to hold the position of pontifex maximus and was the capital for the Christian Church in Western Europe?
30. Which pope strengthened the power of the papacy and the Roman Catholic Church from 590-604 A.D.?
31. What group of pagans did this pope convert?
32. What area around Rome did pope Gregory I control?
List four characteristics of the Western Church (Catholic):
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List four characteristics of the Eastern Church (Byzantine/Orthodox):
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41. Which Byzantine Emperor forbade the use of images and icons that portrayed Christ, the Virgin Mary, and the saints throughout
Christendom in 726?
42. What term is used when the emperor acts as if he were a pope as well as Caesar?
43. What event took place in 1054 that resulted in the mutual excommunication of the Catholic Pope and the Byzantium Patriarch and
the rejection of a unified church?
The Kingdom of the Franks: From Clovis to Charlemagne
44. Who established the kingdom of the Franks and became the first Frankish king to convert to Christianity?
45. What was the name of the dynasty established by Clovis?
46. Which kingdom lasted from 481 to 843?
47. What church supported this kingdom?
48. Which Frankish leader was given the nickname “The Hammer” for defending Christianity from the invading Muslims?
49. What epic battle took place between the Franks and the Muslims in 732 A.D. which resulted in the preservation of Western
Civilization?
50. Who was the son of Charles Martel and later became the father of Charlemagne?
51. Which Anglo-Saxon missionary anointed Pepin as King of the Franks and later became the patron saint of Germany?
52. What land surrounding Rome was given to the Pope by the Franks after defeating the Lombards in 755?
53. Who was crowned Holy Roman Emperor on Christmas day 800 A.D. and became the greatest European king of the Middle Ages?
54. Who sought to enhance the influence of the Church by crowning Charlemagne as Holy Roman Emperor?
55. What empire was a revival of the ancient Roman Empire and was based in Germany?
56. What is the name of the period of European history lasting from 800 to 1000 A.D.?
57. List three countries that were part of the Holy Roman Empire:
58. What was the capitol of Charlemagne’s empire?
59. What was the title given to the two men who were sent out to local districts to ensure that the counts were carrying out the king’s
orders?
60. What was the name given to the revival of learning and culture during the reign of Charlemagne?
61. Which Anglo-Saxon scholar became the director of Charlemagne’s palace school?
62. What treaty divided the kingdom of Louis the Pious in 843 among his three feuding sons: Charles, Lothar, and Louis?
63. What name is given to the era from the late ninth century to the first half of the tenth century?
64. Which group of people from Scandinavia were great seafarers, traders, and savage raiders?
65. Which Viking leader established a settlement in Greenland?
66. Which Viking explorer was the first European to reach North American and established a settlement in Newfoundland in 1000
A.D.?
67. List the three groups of people that attacked Western Europe in Early Middle Ages:
Feudal Society
68. What is the name given to the social, political, military, and economic system that emerged during the Middle Ages?
69. What name is given to freemen who entrusted themselves to others to provide military service?
70. What is it called when warriors swear loyalty to a lord, who in turn took care of his needs?
71. What did the lord grant vassals in return for their loyalty and military service?
72. List three duties of a vassal:
73. What were village farms owned by a lord and were the center of the agrarian economy?
74. What did a peasant become by surrendering his property to a greater landowner in exchange for protection and assistance?
75. What agricultural innovation alternated fallow with planted fields each year which increased the amount of cultivated land by
leaving only one-third fallow in a given year?