New Germanic Kingdoms Flashcards
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They set up news states
Germanic Kings
They ruled the western roman empire by 500
Germanic Kings
From Italy; preserved Roman tradition of government
Ostrogoths
Established his rule over Italy; kept the entire structure of imperial Roman government
Ostrogothic King Theodoric
Roman population of Italy lived under
Roman law administered by Roman officials
They were governed by their own customs and officials
Ostrogoths
From Spain; continued to maintain much of Roman structure of government
Visigoths
were allowed to maintain Roman institutions
Visigoths and Ostrogoths
over sometime they began to fuse together
Visigoths and native peoples
Where Roman influence was weaker
Britain
settled in Britain after Romans gave it up
Angles and Saxons, Germanic tribes from Denmark, northern Germany
Angles and Saxons, Germanic tribes from Denmark, and northern Germany carved out small kingdoms
Kent in SE England was one of them
one of the most prominent German states
Frankish Kingdom
Frankish Kingdom was the work of
Clovis
Clovis was a member of the — dynasty
Merovingian
dynasty who became Catholic Christian in 500
Merovingian
Sect of Christianity; believed Jesus was truly human, thus not God
Arian
RCC regarded Arians as
heretics
people who believed in teaching different from other church doctrines
heretics
He got support from the RCC after being converted
Clovis
Frankish Kingdom in 510
Pyrenees in the west to German lands in the east (France to western Germany)
After Clovis’ death his sons divided the Frankish Kingdom called
the Frankish custom
Frankish Kingdom divided into 3 major areas
Neustria, Austrasia, & the former kingdom of Burgundy
How many sons did Clovis have?
2