Chapter 17 AP WORLD HISTORY Flashcards

1029597865	Charles Martel	defeated an Islamic force in 732 at the battle of Tours	0
1029597866	In 802 what gift did Charlemagne receive from Harun al-Rashid	An albino elephant	1
1029597867	achievements a part of the Early Middle Ages	Restored political order, economic recovery, built an institutional framework that enabled the Christian church based in Rome to provide religious leadership/maintain cultural unity	2
1029597868	476 CE	Roman imperial power ended with the invasion of the Germanic general Odoacer and the Germans	3
1029597869	Germanic tribes and the areas they invaded	Visigoths= Spain, Ostrogoths= Italy, Burgundians/franks=Gaul, Angles/Saxons=Britain	4
1029597870	In the 470s Spain was conquered by the	Visigoths	5
1029597871	collapse of western roman authority	Germanic invaders established successor states throughout the western Roman empire	6
1029597872	Which Germanic kingdom dominated Italy from the fifth century until the 530s	Ostrogoths	7
1029597873	Which Germanic tribe played the most important role in establishing the foundations of European development	Franks	8
1029597874	The fifth-century Frankish leader whose conversion to christianity led to a centuries- long relationship with the popes in Rome was	Clovis	9
1029597875	Clovis	Led 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 realm	10
1029597876	Clovis's conversion to Christianity probably reflected the influence of	Clotilda	11
1029597877	After the death of clovis,	The frankish kings lost much of their authority	12
1029597878	The Carolingian dynasty	Takes its name from Charles Martel	13
1029597879	Charlemagne's role in restoring temporary centralized political rule was similar to that of	King Harsha in India	14
1029597880	Charlemagne maintained diplomatic relations with	The byzantine empire and Abbasid caliphs	15
1029597881	Even thoug Charlemagne spent much of his time traveling around his empire, he did establish a capital at	Aachen	16
1029597882	Charlemagne	"Charles the great," Charles Martel's grandson, temporarily reestablished centralized imperial rule, extremely intelligent, spent a lot of time traveling	17
1029597883	Charlemagne fought for 32 years to conquer the	Saxons	18
1029597884	Missi Dominici	Envoys of the lord. A new group of imperial officials who traveled every year to all local jurisdictions and reviewed the accounts of local authorities	19
1029597885	The main goal of the Missin Dominici	Bring the counts under tighter control	20
1029597886	The imperial crown	When 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
1029597887	On Christmas Day 800	Charlemagne received the imperial crown from Pope Leo III	22
1029597888	After the death of Charlemagne, his son Louis the Pious	Succeeded his father and kept the Carolingian empire together. Lacked Charlemagne's military skills and lost control	23
1029597889	After the death of Louis the Pious, the Carolingian Empire	was divided into 3 portions by Louis's 3 sons and the empire dissolved.	24
1029597890	Groups that invaded Europe in the ninth century	Muslims, Magyars, Vikings	25
1029597891	Constantinople was raided at least three times in the ninth and tenth centuries by the	Vikings	26
1029597892	The westernmost point of Viking expansion	Greenland and North America	27
1029597893	When 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 decades	28
1029597894	England was unified in the ninth century by	King Alfred	29
1029597895	IN 962 Otto I	received a crown from the pope which marked the foundation of Holy Roman empire	30
1029597896	At the battle of Lechfeld in 955	King Otto 1 of Saxony defeated the Magyars	31
1029597897	Feudalism	Political and social order of medieval Europe	32
1029597898	In medieval society, politicla power was vested in	Lords	33
1029597899	The most important relationship in feudalism was between	Lords and retainers/vassals	34
1029597900	Fiefs were	Land grants given to retainers	35
1029597901	The retainer would owe	Loyalty, obedience, and military service to his lord in return for Land , protection, justice, and social welfare	36
1029597902	The medieval political system was	Decentralized	37
1029597903	One of the biggest reasons for increased agricultural production in Europe was	Heavy plows	38
1029597904	By the year 1000 The population of Europe had risen to	36 million	39
1029597905	Who provided the ROman church with a sense of direction by reasserting papal primacy?	Pope Gregory I	40
1029597906	The Rule	came from St. Benedict; a set of regulations that shaped the rise of monasticism by avoiding extremism and promoting social service	41
1029597907	The Benedictine Rule was spread to women	By St. Scholastica, St. Benedict's sister	42