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Chapters 1-7 Flashcards

1
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Capitularies

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The laws Charlemagne established

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2
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Iconoclast

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A destroyer of images used in religious worship

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3
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Despotic

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Of or typical of a despot; tyrannical

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4
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Domestic proselytization

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To induce someone to convert to one’s faith (queen converts king as well as a nation)

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5
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Caliph

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The chief Muslim civil and religious leader, regarded as the successor of Muhammad

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6
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Compurgation

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Swearing by the accused (an old Germanic law)

Acquittal from a charge or accusation

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7
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Fief

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An estate of land, especially one held on condition of feudal service

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8
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Bishopric

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The rank or office of a bishop

A district under a bishop’s control; a diocese

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9
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Nomad

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A member of a people having no permanent abode, and who travel from place to place to find fresh pasture for their livestock (shepherds)

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10
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Eucharist

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The holy meal of bread and wine (communion)

Christian ceremony of the Last Supper

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Dowry

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Property or money brought by a bride to her husband on their marriage

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12
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Wergild

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Murder reparations
A sum of money an offender might pay to the victim’s family for vengeance
*Amount of compensation paid by a person to the injured party

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Fjord

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A Long, narrow, deep inlet of the sea between high cliffs, as in Norway and Iceland, typically formed by submergence of a glaciated valley

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14
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Scalds

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Icelandic bards

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15
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Margrave

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The medieval title for the military commander assigned to maintain the defense of one of the border provinces of the Holy Roman Empire or of a kingdom

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16
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Vulgate

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St. Jerome’s Latin translation of the New Testament from Greek

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17
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Paladins

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A group of knights close to Charlemagne

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18
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St. Ambrose

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Bishop of Milon

First churchman to assert emperor was accountable to priesthood

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William Duke of Normandy

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King of England after Edward the Confessor (Dec. 25, 1066)
Battle of Hastings (1066)
Domesday Book

20
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Eric the Red

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Blew off course from Greenland, discovers Nova Scotia (in Canada)

21
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Charlemagne

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United Germanic peoples into Christian Empire (merged cultures)
Holy Roman Emperor
Est. capitularies, administrative positions, and divided the empire into marches
Education given to Frankish empire

22
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Mohammad

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Founder of Islam

23
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Justinian

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Ruled during Byzantine Golden Age
Recovered Western provinces
Justinian Code; codified laws for the Eastern Empire

24
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Druids

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A member of educated, professional class among the Celtic peoples of Gaul, Britain, and Ireland

25
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St. Augustine of Andrew

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Evangelized England

26
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St. Augustine

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Bishop of Hippo

Wrote Confessions and City of God

27
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St. Patrick

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Bishop of Ireland

Spread Christianity throughout Ireland

28
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St. Boniface

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Est. papal authority amongst the Franks
Spent 30 years in Germany
Evangelized Francia
*Christian missionary to Germany

29
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Attila the Hun

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“Scourge of God” - king of the Huns
Defeated at Chalon by Romans and Goths
Leo the Great stopped him (probably paid him to leave)

30
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St. Jerome

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Founded monastery in Bethlehem where monks copied Scripture

Wrote the Vulgate

31
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Gregory the Great

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Contributed greatly to the power of the papacy

Carried out the Great Commission

32
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Hejira

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***Mohammad’s flight to Medina

A migration or journey of the Islamic prophet Mohammad and his followers from Mecca to Yathrib

33
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Alfred the Great

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King of Wessex
Resisted Danes and saved his Anglo-Saxon kingdom; Battle of Edington
Retakes London
Consolidates power

34
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Charles Martel

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“Charles the Hammer”

Drove the Moors back across the Pyrenees to Spain during the Battle of Tours

35
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Norseman

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“North men”

Lived in central and southern Scandinavia (ancient Scandinavians)

36
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Rollo

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Norwegian

Became Duke of Normandy (Treaty of St. Clair-sur-Epte)

37
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Theodora

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Justinian’s wife

Nika Riots

38
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Constantinople

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Capital of Byzantine Empire

39
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Hagia Sophia

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Former Christian patriarchal basilica in Istanbul, Turkey (Constantinople); “church of divine wisdom”
Built by Justinian

40
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Mayors of the Palace

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*Frankish rulers after the time of Clovis
Ministers of state running French court, Merovingian king only in name
Carolingian family dominated position

41
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Nicene Creed

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Written by Council of Nicea (325)

Clarified Christian doctrine, though created heretics

42
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Clovis

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Clotilda converted him to Catholicism

Allied himself with the church; France and papacy were nost powerful entities

43
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Pepin the Short

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Secures monarchy for the Carolingians

44
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Odin

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King of the Norse gods

45
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Theodoric

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Ostrogothic king who ruled Rome after its fall
Maintains its culture but also used Ostrogoths
Killed Boethius

46
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Mosque

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The building where Muslims worship

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