Middle Ages
illuminated manuscript
A manuscript decorated with gold, colors, pictures or designs.
Thanes
A social class of nobles, soldiers, and ministers
dynasty
A succession of rulers from the same family.
The major Islamic Caliphate after 750 was?
Abbasid
Charlemagne's capital city was?
Aix-la-Chapelle
The Anglo-Saxon epic, _______, was probably written in the seventh or eighth century.
Beowulf
Charlemagne was crowned emperor on __________ in the year 800 by Pope Leo III.
Christmas Day
The greatest scholar brought to Charlemagne's court came from?
England
True or False? Charlemagne was the Saxon king of Wessex.
False
During the reign of Basil II, the Byzantine Empire _______________ the most territory held since the reign of Justinian.
Gained
726
Leo III destroyed religious statutes
Charlemagne's people that were assigned to travel in pairs through the empire checking on courts and the state of the empire were called?
Missi Dominici
In 911 Charles the Simple allowed Vikings to settle in what was later called?
Normandy
Papal States
large district in central Italy ruled by Popes from 775-1870
wergild
literally, a man's price or worth
Carolingian
name of the second Frankish dynasty of kings
The Treaty of Verdun was made in what year?
843
The Magyars were a?
Asiatic tribe
One of the greatest scholars of his time was the monk known as _______, who died in 735.
Bede
During the reign of Basil II, ___________ became the cultural center of the Mediterranean, and Byzantine culture reached its highest point.
Constantinople
mosaic
Decoration made of small pieces of stone, glass, or wood, set in a frame.
icon
Religious picture or image.
The time of great learning during Charlemagne's reign was the time known as the Carolingian?
Renaissance
The Frankish kings of the seventh century were called?
The do nothing kings.
In 1055, Baghdad, capital of the Islamic Empire, was captured by the?
Turks
fresco
Watercolor paintings done on wet plaster.
count
a noble who ruled a county in Charlemagne's time
scriptorium
a room in a monastery for writing or copying manuscripts
march
an area along the border of a country, especially one subject to attack
1054
break between Roman and Eastern churches
800
coronation of Charlemagne
duke
highest ranking noble
787
iconoclasm condemned by a church council
margrave
in the Middle Ages, the military ruler of a march
The reign of Alfred the Great is not related to?
the death of Eric Bloodaxe