Dark Ages
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- Aachen
- Capital of Charlemagne's empire, c. 800; a city in present-day Germany
- "The Hammer"
- aka Charles Martel
- Pepin III
- Frankish ruler who was son of Charles Martel and brother of Carolman
- Charles Martel
- the Frankish commander for the battle of Tours. He defeated the Muslimsin the Battle of Tours, allowing Christianity to survive throughout the Dark Ages. He in a way started Feudalism by giving land to his knights that served for him.
- Dark Ages
- the period of European history from the fall of the Roman Empire to about the end of the tenth century.
- Tacitus
- historian who write about the Roman Empire
- Franks
- a Germanic people who lived in the province of Gaul (present day France)
- Lombards
- a member of a Germanic people who invaded northern Italy in the 6th century and later parts of western Gaul(France)
- Carolman
- son of Charles Martel, brother of Pepin the Short -gave up his kingdom to become a monk
- Donation of Pepin
- Pepin donated land to the church in exchange for his coronation by the pope
- chivalry
- The code of honorable conduct for knights.
- Saxons
- a group of germanic people who migrated to Britain
- Vikings
- warring tribe from Scandinavia that invaded Europe with ships who settled in Danes and Ireland and converted to Christianity
- coronation
- the act or ceremony of crowning royalty
- Bonifice
- Frankish Catholic priest, bishop, archbshop and eventually pope
- Alcuin
- scholar of a school in Aechen who created a curriculum.
- feudalism
- system in which poor people are legally bound to work for wealthy landowners
- Charlemagne
- King of the Franks who conquered much of Western Europe, great patron of literature and learning; aka Charles the Great
- River Ordeal
- early system of justice--if person drowned=innocent
- Clovis
- He was the first Merovingian king to become a Christian--> he had 2 sons and when he died he didn't leave a will as to who would be the next king so the sons fought.
- wergeld
- the amount of money paid by a wrong doers family to the victim = man/money
- Germanics
- tribes of "barbarians" (Latin for foreigners) who attacked and defeated the Roman Empire c. 410 AD
- Song of Roland
- legend/oral tradition which praises the courage of one of Charlemagne's knights who died on campaign
- "Pepin The Short"
- aka Pepin III