Western Europe

Question 1

The Franks

Answer 1

first known as a group of Germanic tribes that roamed the land between the Lower and Middle Rhine in the 3rd century AD

Question 2

Pope

Answer 2

The Pope is the Bishop of Rome and the leader of the worldwide Catholic Church.

Question 3

Monk

Answer 3

a member of a religious community of men typically living under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience.

Question 4

Missionay

Answer 4

a person sent by a church into an area to carry on evangelism or other activities, as educational or hospital work.

Question 5

Nun

Answer 5

a woman member of a religious order, especially one bound by vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience.

Question 6

Convent

Answer 6

a community of persons devoted to religious life under a superior.

Question 7

Clovis

Answer 7

of or relating to a Paleo-Indian cultural tradition of North America, especially the American Southwest, dated 10,000–9000 b.c.

Question 8

Charlemagne

Answer 8

(“Charles the Great”) a.d. 742–814, king of the Franks 768–814; as Charles I, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire 800–814.

Question 9

Carolingian Dynasty

Answer 9

The Carolingian dynasty was a Frankish noble family with origins in the Arnulfing and Pippinid clans of the 7th century AD.

Question 10

Vikings

Answer 10

any of the Scandinavian seafaring pirates and traders who raided and settled in many parts of northwestern Europe in the 8th–11th centuries.

Question 11

Middle Ages

Answer 11

the period of European history from the fall of the Roman Empire in the West (5th century) to the fall of Constantinople (1453), or, more narrowly, from c. 1100 to 1453.