Early Middle Ages Flashcards
(44 cards)
What continent is Europe on?
Eurasia.
What is a topography map?
A map that shows the elevation of the land.
What is the boundary between Europe and Asia?
The Ural mountains.
What is the flat area in the middle of Europe called?
The European plain.
What features are in the European plain?
Many trees and many rivers.
What was life like in the southern part of Europe?
What people live near the coast, it was warmer and there are many fishermen because of the peninsula. Natural protection was obtained by the alps.
What was life like in the northern part of Europe?
People lived further from the sea, they use the numerous rivers to get around and to reach the sea. Many towns developed on rivers and example is Paris and are many Flat fields for preforming.
What was the only bad thing about living in the northern part of Europe?
They did not have good protection because it was so flat and were frequently invaded.
What is latitude?
The imaginary horizontal lines crisscrossing the earth.
What is longitude?
The vertical imaginary lines crisscrossing the earth.
Name the four reasons Christianity spread through the Roman Empire.
Paul wrote Epistles
Roman roads
Deciples
Constantine
Who are missionaries?
People to travel to try to convert others to their religion.
To what three countries did the pope send missionaries to?
Britain, Spain, and France
Who is a famous missionary and what did he do?
Saint Patrick. He was a Roman citizen who converted the people of Ireland to Christianity
Who are monks?
Religious man who lived apart from society and in isolated communities called monasteries.
What did monks do?
Spent their time in prayer, work, and in meditation. If they weren’t doing that, they were running schools copying books and collecting writings from ancient Greece and Rome.
True or false, monks are forced to follow strict rules about how to live?
True.
What did the monks rules include?
How to eat, dress, pray, and live.
Who was Charlemagne the leader of?
The Franks.
⭐️ Side note: if you don’t know who they ruled just say the Franks. If they were Muslim, it was the Muslim Turks.⭐️
What did Charlemagne do?
Built up a strong empire in present-day France and Germany, he was a Christian and fought many battles with the neighbors and conquered them all. He was crowned emperor of the Holy Roman Empire by Pope Leo the third and I helped the European people realize that they’re all Europeans, not individual tribes. He told him that Christianity connected them and spread it even more.
What marked the beginning of the middle ages or medieval Europe?
When after the fall of Rome no one knew who was really the ruler and Europe was divided into many small kingdoms.
Why were the middle ages called the “middle” ages?
Because it falls between ancient and modern times.
Why was in the middle ages called “medieval Europe”
Medieval means middle in Latin.
Finish this sentence: feudalism was created by the _____ in the 1000s
The Franks.
