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1029597865Charles Marteldefeated an Islamic force in 732 at the battle of Tours0
1029597866In 802 what gift did Charlemagne receive from Harun al-RashidAn albino elephant1
1029597867achievements a part of the Early Middle AgesRestored political order, economic recovery, built an institutional framework that enabled the Christian church based in Rome to provide religious leadership/maintain cultural unity2
1029597868476 CERoman imperial power ended with the invasion of the Germanic general Odoacer and the Germans3
1029597869Germanic tribes and the areas they invadedVisigoths= Spain, Ostrogoths= Italy, Burgundians/franks=Gaul, Angles/Saxons=Britain4
1029597870In the 470s Spain was conquered by theVisigoths5
1029597871collapse of western roman authorityGermanic invaders established successor states throughout the western Roman empire6
1029597872Which Germanic kingdom dominated Italy from the fifth century until the 530sOstrogoths7
1029597873Which Germanic tribe played the most important role in establishing the foundations of European developmentFranks8
1029597874The fifth-century Frankish leader whose conversion to christianity led to a centuries- long relationship with the popes in Rome wasClovis9
1029597875ClovisLed Franks on a campaign that wiped out the last vestiges of Roman authority in Gaul, imposed his authority on the Franks himself, organized campaigns against other Germanic peoples whose states bordered their realm10
1029597876Clovis's conversion to Christianity probably reflected the influence ofClotilda11
1029597877After the death of clovis,The frankish kings lost much of their authority12
1029597878The Carolingian dynastyTakes its name from Charles Martel13
1029597879Charlemagne's role in restoring temporary centralized political rule was similar to that ofKing Harsha in India14
1029597880Charlemagne maintained diplomatic relations withThe byzantine empire and Abbasid caliphs15
1029597881Even thoug Charlemagne spent much of his time traveling around his empire, he did establish a capital atAachen16
1029597882Charlemagne"Charles the great," Charles Martel's grandson, temporarily reestablished centralized imperial rule, extremely intelligent, spent a lot of time traveling17
1029597883Charlemagne fought for 32 years to conquer theSaxons18
1029597884Missi DominiciEnvoys of the lord. A new group of imperial officials who traveled every year to all local jurisdictions and reviewed the accounts of local authorities19
1029597885The main goal of the Missin DominiciBring the counts under tighter control20
1029597886The imperial crownWhen presented with the imperial crown, Charlemagne hesitated to call himself emperor because the imperial title would constitute a direct challenge to the authority of the Byzantine empire,21
1029597887On Christmas Day 800Charlemagne received the imperial crown from Pope Leo III22
1029597888After the death of Charlemagne, his son Louis the PiousSucceeded his father and kept the Carolingian empire together. Lacked Charlemagne's military skills and lost control23
1029597889After the death of Louis the Pious, the Carolingian Empirewas divided into 3 portions by Louis's 3 sons and the empire dissolved.24
1029597890Groups that invaded Europe in the ninth centuryMuslims, Magyars, Vikings25
1029597891Constantinople was raided at least three times in the ninth and tenth centuries by theVikings26
1029597892The westernmost point of Viking expansionGreenland and North America27
1029597893When the Vikings established a colony in Newfoundland around the year 1000,They explored the Atlantic coast of North America as far as modern day Maine. Survived no more than a few decades28
1029597894England was unified in the ninth century byKing Alfred29
1029597895IN 962 Otto Ireceived a crown from the pope which marked the foundation of Holy Roman empire30
1029597896At the battle of Lechfeld in 955King Otto 1 of Saxony defeated the Magyars31
1029597897FeudalismPolitical and social order of medieval Europe32
1029597898In medieval society, politicla power was vested inLords33
1029597899The most important relationship in feudalism was betweenLords and retainers/vassals34
1029597900Fiefs wereLand grants given to retainers35
1029597901The retainer would oweLoyalty, obedience, and military service to his lord in return for Land , protection, justice, and social welfare36
1029597902The medieval political system wasDecentralized37
1029597903One of the biggest reasons for increased agricultural production in Europe wasHeavy plows38
1029597904By the year 1000 The population of Europe had risen to36 million39
1029597905Who provided the ROman church with a sense of direction by reasserting papal primacy?Pope Gregory I40
1029597906The Rulecame from St. Benedict; a set of regulations that shaped the rise of monasticism by avoiding extremism and promoting social service41
1029597907The Benedictine Rule was spread to womenBy St. Scholastica, St. Benedict's sister42

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