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Managed to preserve the Roman Tradition of Government

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Ostrogoths

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Ostrogothic King who kept the entire structure of imperial Roman government

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King Theodoric

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Kingdom in Spain and inherites much of the Roman Structure of Government and allowed Romans to maintain there institutions

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Kingdom of Visigoths

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Came from Denmark and Northern Germany and moved into previous Roman places

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The Angles and Saxons

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Small kingdoms made by the Angles and Saxons

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Kent in Southeast England

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The Kingdom made by a man named Clovis

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Kingdom of Franks

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A member of Merovingian dynasty who became a Catholic.

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Clovis

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Sect of Christianity who believed Jesus was human only; regarded as heretics by the Church

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Arian Sect

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Why did the Roman Church support Clovis?

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Because he was one of the only new Germanic Kings that were TRULY Catholic

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Where was the New Frankish kingdom? How far did if stretch?

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From Pyrenees in the west to German lands in the east (modern France)

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The 3 major areas the Frankish kingdom was divided into for Clovis’ sons

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Neustria (northern Gaul)
Austrasia (ancient Frankish lands on both sides of the Rhine)
Burgundy

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Basic unit of Germanic peoples

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Family, even extended family

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13
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Were the German families patriarchal?

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Yes

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How did the legal status of a family’s lives affect them?

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It affected their material conditions of their lives

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15
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What was life like for women?

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Consisted of domestic labor

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16
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How is German law different from what we have today?

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German law was personal

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17
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What is Wergeld?

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Something paid by the wrongdoer to the family of the person injured or killed

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What does Wergeld translate into?

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Man money

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19
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This is based on the idea of divine intervention

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The ordeal

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20
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Predominant religion in the new European civilization

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Christianity

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Christian community head

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Area of jurisdiction of a Bishop

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Bishopric or diocese

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Bishoprics of each Roman province, when joined together, is headed by?

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The Bishops of these places held positions of special power in the Church; these places claimed that they had been founded by the apostles of Jesus

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Rome, Jerusalem, Alexandria and Antioch

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Claimed he was the sole leader of the western Christian Church.
The Bishop of Rome
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Subsequent Bishops of Rome were considered successors of whom?
Peter
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The Bishop of Rome became what we call the...?
Pope
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A man who sought to have a life divorced from the world
A monk
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Living together in a community of monks (became the dominany form)
Monasticism
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Founded a monastic house that became the basic form of monastic life
Saint Benedict
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Primary series of activities in monastaries
Prayer and Manual Labor
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'the enemy of the soul'
Idleness
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How many times did monks meet to pray?
Seven
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Leader of the monastery
Abbot
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Kinda like female monks, at the time
Nuns
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Why were Monks so important?
Became Social Workers, provided school, hospitals, hospitality and used Latin works to pass on the legacy of the ancient world.
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Head of the convent for the nuns
Abbesses
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Where did Abbesses come from?
Aristocratic families, especially in Anglo-Saxon England
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Kingdom of Northumbria
????
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Founded the monastery in Whitby
St. Hilda
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After the Kings lost their power, who assumed control of the kingdom?
The chief officers of the king's household
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Took the logical step of assuming the throne of the Frankish state
Pepin
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Son of Pepin. New king who was dynamic and powerful.
Charles the Great or Charlesmagne or Carolus Magnus
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Charleslemagne couldn't read or write however....?
He was a patron of learning
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Covered much of western and central Europe; it was this big because Charlesmagne expanded the territory of his inherited land
Carolingian Empire
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King's Chief represetatives in local areas?
Counts
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Two meh who were sent out to make sure Counts did the King's wishes
Missi Dominici
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Why was Charlemagne acquiring Rome so important?
It showed the fusion of Roman, Chrisitan and Germanic elements
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After conquering, how far did the Carolingian Kingdom spread?
North Sea to Italy, Atlantic Ocean to Danube River
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How Charlemagnes' grandsons divided the land
Western Frankish lands, easter lands,
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First of the Europeans to movie into the Roman Empire
The Germanic Peoples