Middle Ages

Question 1

What is another name for abbess?

Answer 1

Convent

Question 2

They managed to preserve the Roman tradition of government (in Italy)

Answer 2

Ostrogoths

Question 3

Where was Roman influence weaker?

Answer 3

Britain

Question 4

This Ostrogothic king kept the entire structure of imperial Roman government except that he used separate systems of rules for Romans and Ostrogoths

Answer 4

Theodoric

Question 6

They are Germanic tribes from Denmark and northern Germany who carved out small kingdoms throughout the island such as Kent

Answer 6

Angles and Saxons

Question 7

A number of them set up new states when the imperial authority vanished

Answer 7

German kings

Question 8

What dynasty was Clovis from?

Answer 8

Merovingian dynasty

Question 9

True or false.

Ostrogoths were governed by their own customs and their own officials

Answer 9

True

Question 9

One of the prominent German states on the European continent was what?

Answer 9

Kingdom of the Franks or Frankish kingdom

Question 10

The establishment of the Frankish kingdom was the work of who?

Answer 10

Clovis

Question 11

A sect of Christianity who believed that Jesus had been human but not truly God

Answer 11

Arian

Question 12

The Christian church in Rome regarded the Arians as what?

Answer 12

Heretics

Question 13

They inherited and continued to maintain much of the Roman structure of government (in Spain)

Answer 13

Visigoths

Question 14

What Latin word was “pope” derived from? What does it mean?

Answer 14

Papa; father

Question 15

What are the three major areas of the divided Frankish kingdom?

Answer 15

Neustria (northern Gaul); Austrasia; former kingdom of Burgundy

Question 16

After Clovis’ death who divided his newly created kingdom?

Answer 16

His sons

Question 17

The ordeal was based on what intervention?

Answer 17

Divine intervention

Question 18

It is the revenge on the family of the wrongdoer by the family of the injured party

Answer 18

Blood feud

Question 19

He was considered as the chief apostle and first bishop of Rome

Answer 19

Peter

Question 20

They are the dominant ones and made all the important decisions in the family

Answer 20

Males

Question 20

Most women had life expectancies of what?

Answer 20

30 or 40 years

Question 22

What does abbot mean?

Answer 22

“Father” of the monastery

Question 23

How many percent of women died in their childbearing years?

Answer 23

15%

Question 24

It is the value of a person in monetary terms

Answer 24

Wergeld or man money

Question 25

They are people who believed in teaching different from the official church doctrine

Answer 25

Heretics

Question 26

What was the empire that he had inherited and created known as?

Answer 26

Carolingian Empire

Question 27

What does wergeld mean?

Answer 27

Man money

Question 29

They believed that ______________ would not allow an innocent person to be harmed

Answer 29

Divine forces

Question 30

The Christian community in each city was headed by whom?

Answer 30

Bishop

Question 31

Subsequent bishops of Rome were considered Peter's successors and came to be know as what?

Answer 31

Popes

Question 32

What are the four great cities that has the bishop who held positions of special power in church affairs?

Answer 32

Rome, Jerusalem, Alexandria, Antioch

Question 33

It is a fine paid by a wrongdoer to the family of the person killed or injured

Answer 33

Wergeld

Question 33

The bishop of ______ claimed that he was the sole leader of the western Christian church

Answer 33

Rome

Question 34

According to Christian traditions, Jesus had given the keys to the kingdom of heaven to whom?

Answer 34

Peter

Question 35

In what century were the popes successful in converting pagan peoples of Germanic Europe?

Answer 35

Sixth century

Question 36

What does missi dominici mean?

Answer 36

Messengers of the lord king

Question 37

A man who sought to live a life divorced from the world is called what?

Answer 37

Monk

Question 39

What is the Latin for Charles the Great?

Answer 39

Carolus Magnus

Question 42

In 800, what was the title that Charlemagne acquire?

Answer 42

Emperor of the Romans

Question 43

He established the basic form of monastic life in the western Christian church

Answer 43

Saint Benedict

Question 44

What was the enemy of the soul for monks?

Answer 44

Idleness

Question 45

How many times do monks gather in a day?

Answer 45

7

Question 45

Each Benedictine monastery was strictly ruled by whom?

Answer 45

Abbot

Question 46

The bishoprics of each Roman province were joined together under the direction of whom?

Answer 46

Archbishop

Question 47

What Latin word was "monk" derived from? What does it mean?

Answer 47

Monachus; one who lives alone

Question 47

Men : Monks :: Women : ________

Answer 47

Nuns

Question 48

They are the head of a monastery for nuns

Answer 48

Abbesses

Question 49

He is a mayor who took the logical step of assuming the kingship of the Frankish state for himself and his family

Answer 49

Pepin

Question 50

After Pepin's death who was next to throne?

Answer 50

Charles the Great or Charlemagne (his son)

Question 51

True or false | Charles the great was unable to read and write himself

Answer 51

True

Question 51

Who established the missi dominici?

Answer 51

Charles the Great

Question 52

What were the biographers of Charlemagne regard him as?

Answer 52

Father of Europe

Question 53

An establishment wherein two men who were sent out to local districts to ensure that the counts were executing the king's wishes

Answer 53

Missi dominici

Question 54

The area of jurisdiction of the bishop is known as what?

Answer 54

Bishopric or diocese

Question 55

They are people who were an important component of the new European civilization

Answer 55

Germanic peoples