TEST REVIEW
- Middle ages = me-devil period
- AD 476 - AD 1453
- beliefs of the Roman Catholic Church
- overrun the western half of the Roman empire
- causing:
- disruption of trade
- downfall of cities
- population shifts to rural areas
Effects of invasion
- decline of learning
- tribes had oral tradition, songs, but couldn't read Greek or Latin
- few besides priests were literate
- romance languages evolve
Germanic kingdoms emerge
- Germanic warriors loyalty is to the lord of the manor he provides them w/ food, weapons, treasure
- No orderly government
- Small communities rule
- In 496 he has the battlefield conversion - he and 3000 of his warriors become Christians
- By the 511 the Franks are united into one kingdom, with Clovis and the Church working as the partners.
Spread of Christianity
- Church + Frankish rulers = rise in Christianity
- In 520, Benedict writes rules for monks
- His sister scholastic writes similar rules for nuns
Pope Gregory and papal power play
- Theocracy- Church revenues are used to help the poor, build roads, and raise armies
- Hammer defeats Muslim raiding party from Spain at the Battle of Tours in 732
How do you follow the hammer?
- Charles Martel's son is Pepin the Short
Luis' three sons - lothair, Charles the bald & and Louis the German - split up the kingdom at the traty of VERDUN in 843 AD
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