1. THE MIDDLE AGES: AN INTRODUCTION

Who is credited with establishing Catholicism in western Europe?

Clovis

established Frankish kingdom

Clovis

king of the Visigoths

Alaric

deposed the last Roman emperor

Odoacer

Roman emperor killed by Visigoths

Valens

Three influential Germanic kingdoms were:

-Ostrogothic -Frankish -Anglo-Saxon

Vandal leader

Gaiseric

Asiatic tribe

Huns

The Scourge of God was the name given to Attila of the ______.

Huns

After he deposed Odoacer, ______ the Ostrogoth established his capital city in Ravenna.

Theodoric

king of Ostrogoths

Theodoric

made peace with the Visigoths

Theodosius

invited Angles and Saxons to England

Vortigern

in the Germanic system, the relationship between a leader and his warriors

comitatus

payment for crime given to the victim's family by the offender

compensation

The word that refers to anything concerned with the Middle Ages is

medieval

a person or tribe that moves from place to place

nomad

Select the three methods of resolution in the Germanic system of law and justice.

oath swearing trial by ordeal compensation

council of a German king

witan