Quiz

Question 1

Kingdom in France which were the first large kingdoms to be re established after the fall of Rome

Answer 1

Frankish kingdoms

Question 2

Monotheistic religion promoted by Muhammad that swept quickly through the Middle East established Muslim empire and pushed into territory held by European Christians

Answer 2

Islam

Question 3

The foremost prophet of Islam who started who stayed there is no God but Allah. Lived in mid 600s and provided the ideas to the holy Koran

Answer 3

Muhammad

Question 4

Islam established empires westward into Spain and eastward to the gates of Constantinople

Answer 4

Islamic expansion

Question 5

Christian Frankish king who successfully stopped the Muslim advance into France at the battle of Poitiers

Answer 5

Charles Martel

Question 6

Medical flamethrower that destroyed Muslim ships and prevented an Islamic takeover of the Byzantine orthodox city of Constantinople

Answer 6

Greek Fire and the defense of Constantinople

Question 7

The ideal Christian emperor

He fused the religion of Christianity and militant

Answer 7

Charlemagne

Question 8

Epic French poem that tells the mythic story of Charlemagne and the tragic tale of Roland as they battled the Muslim ins Spain

Answer 8

The song of Roland

Question 9

Blending of religion and government into a stinger power

Answer 9

Theocracy

Question 10

A relatively brief time when learning flourished during Charlemagne reign

Answer 10

Carolingian Renaissance

Question 11

Fierce Norse barbarian raiders who used their longships and love of battle to terrorize civilization in Europe go a century

Answer 11

The vikings(the Norsemen)

Question 12

Region of Northern Europe that was home to the vikings( modern day Norway Sweden Denmark)

Answer 12

Scandinavia

Question 13

Viking sailing vessels which could move effectively over open ocean or European rivers

Answer 13

Dragon ships

Question 14

Chief Norse god

Answer 14

Odin

Question 15

Norse idea of Viking heaven ( can fight brawl )

Answer 15

Valhalla

Question 16

Viking exile and explorer who sailed to Iceland and Greenland and established a Viking presence there for hundreds of years

Answer 16

Erik the red

Question 17

The first European to discover the new world he sailed to Newfoundland and eastern Canada

Answer 17

Leif erikson

Question 18

Viking name for region of Northern America covered in vines

Answer 18

Vinland

Question 19

First Viking king who converts Norway to Christianity 999 ad

Answer 19

Olaf trygvesson

Question 20

Last of the great barbarians attacks into central Hungary

Answer 20

Magyar invasion

Question 21

Christian king Otto I rallies his knights to annihilate the Magyar force

Answer 21

The battle of lex held

Question 22

Crushed the last barbarian Magyar invasion

Answer 22

Otto the great

Question 23

The first barbarian king to convert directly to roman Christian Catholicism

Answer 23

Clovis