Early Middle Ages Quiz
1. Europe’s seas and rivers played an important part in Europe’s growth
because they provided both protection and opportunities for
a. Invading other lands
b. Combining kingdoms
c. Trading with nearby economies
d. Converting distant groups to Catholicism
2. Which was a Germanic people who settled the area known today as
France?
a. Angles
b. Celts
c. Franks
d. Saxons
3. Charlemagne was the first Frankish ruler to believe in what for all
people?
a. Education
b. Equality
c. Freedom
d. Religion
Matching
a. fjord
b. concordat
c. monastery
d. missionaries
e. Battle of Tours
f. establish
g. excommunicate
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9.
steep-sided valley that is an inlet of the sea
to exclude a person from church membership
agreement between the pope and ruler of the country
to bring into existence
a religious community
defeat of the Muslims that stopped further advancement of Isalm into
Western Europe
10. people who are sent by a religious organization to spread the faith