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