History Unit 3 section 2

Break between Roman and eastern churches

1054

Leo III destroyed religious statues

726

Iconoclasm condemned by an ecumenical council

787

Coronation of Charlemagne

800

The treaty of verdun was made in ___.

843

Basil was not ___.

A Roman emperor

The major Islamic caliphate after 750 was ___.

Abbasid

Charlemagne's capital city was ___.

Aix-la-chapelle

The Magyars were a ___ tribe.

Asiatic

The anglo-Saxon epic, ___, was probably written in the seventh or eightieth century.

Beowulf

Charlemagne was crowned emperor on ___, in the year ___, by pope ___.

Christmas Day , 800, Leo III

During the reign of basil II, ___ became the cultural center of the Mediterranean, and Byzantine ____ reached its highest point.

Constantinople and culture

Counts ruled over ___.

Counties

The Frankish kings of the seventh century were called _____.

Do- nothing - kings

The greatest scholar brought to Charlemagne's court came from ___.

England

Marches are___.

Frontier or border areas

During the reign of basil II, the Byzantine empire gained the most territory held since the reign of ___.

Justinian

In 911 Charles the simple allowed Vikings to settle in what was later called ___.

Normandy

Which of the following is not related to the reign of Alfred the Great?

The death of Eric bloodaxe

Charlemagne's missi dominici were assigned to ___.

Travel in Paris through the empire checking in courts and the state of the empire

Baghdad, capital of the Islamic empire, was captured by the ___ in 1055.

Turks

One of the greatest scholars of his time was the monk known as ____ who died in 735.

Venerable bede