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| 287548089 | Franks | Germanic people who lived and held power in Gaul. Their leader was Clovis and he would later bring Christianity to the region. By 511 the Franks had united into one kingdom and they controlled the largest and strongest parts of Europe. | 0 | |
| 287548090 | Carolingian dynasty | A series of Frankish rulers including Pepin and Charlemagne lasting from 751 to 987 | 1 | |
| 287548091 | Visigoths | A member of the western Goths that invaded the Roman Empire in the fourth century A.D. and settled in France and Spain, establishing a monarchy that lasted until the early eighth century. | 2 | |
| 287548092 | Ostrogoths | Germanic invaders who overran the western half of the Roman Empire | 3 | |
| 287548093 | Lombards | a member of a Germanic people who invaded northern Italy in the 6th century and later parts of western Gaul(France) | 4 | |
| 287548094 | Burgundians | Germanic invaders who overran the western half of the Roman Empire | 5 | |
| 287548095 | Angles | Invaders who later established England. | 6 | |
| 287548096 | Saxons | a germanic people that conquered England and merged with the Angles to become Anglo-Saxons | 7 | |
| 287548097 | Arian Christianity | Religion which believed that Christ was only a mortal man begotten of God and reduced his role to the lesser demigod. The Goths, Egyptian Christians, and barbaric Christians of Europe practiced this. Attacked by Justin, which united the east and the west. | 8 | |
| 287548098 | Missi dominici | Royal officials under Charlemagne who traveled around the country to enforce the king's laws | 9 | |
| 287548099 | Vikings | Scandinavian pirates who plundered the coasts of Europe from the 8th to 10th centuries. | 10 | |
| 287548100 | Feudalism | a political and social system that developed during the Middle Ages; nobles offered protection and land in return for service | 11 | |
| 287548101 | Manorialism | Economic system during the Middle Ages that revolved around self-sufficient farming estates where lords and peasants shared the land. | 12 | |
| 287548102 | Clovis | king of the Franks who unified Gaul and established his capital at Paris and founded the Frankish monarchy | 13 | |
| 287548103 | Charles Martel | the Frankish commander for the battle of Tours. He defeated the Muslimsin the Battle of Tours, allowing Christianity to survive throughout the Dark Ages. | 14 | |
| 287548104 | Odovacer | A Germanic general who deposed the Roman emperor in 476, marking the fall of the Western Roman Empire | 15 | |
| 287548105 | Pope Leo III | Who on December 25 800 a.d. crowned Charlemagne as "Emperor of the Romans" | 16 | |
| 287548106 | King Alfred | the king of England that successfully defeated the vikings | 17 | |
| 287548107 | King Otto I of Saxony | most successful local lord fighting against Magyars after fall of Carolingians; also supported papacy in Italy after taking most of germany; crowned emperor in 962 by Pope John XII, beginning the Holy Roman Empire | 18 | |
| 287548108 | St. Benedict | he founded a monastery in nothern italy in the 6th century and wrote a set of instructions gonverning the lives of monks that was used by monasteries and vonbents across europe. | 19 | |
| 287548109 | Monasticism | a way of life in which men and women withdraw from the rest of the world in order to devote themselves to their faith | 20 | |
| 287548110 | St. Scholastica | 482-543 sister to St. Benedict adapted his Rules into guidance for women in convents | 21 | |
| 287548111 | Pope Gregory I | 590-604 was most important figure for providing Roman church with sense of direction; "Gregory the Great"; mobilized local resources and organized defense of Rome | 22 | |
| 287548112 | Serf | (Middle Ages) a person who is bound to the land and owned by the feudal lord | 23 | |
| 287548113 | Louis the Pious | Charlemagne's only surviving son (814-840) his sons divided empire into 3 brining end to Carolingian empire | 24 |
