Unit 8: Medieval Europe

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Separate from the church

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secular

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Where monks (religious men) lived

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Monastery

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Religious men, worked to preserve Greco-Roman achievements

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monks

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Irish bishop and missionary-spread Christianity to Germanic tribes

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Saint Patrick

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Territories in Italy controlled by the Roman Catholic Church

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Vatican City and the Papal States

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Peninsula in Northern Europe, Norway and Sweden, home to the Vikings

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Scandinavian Peninsula

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1st European to reach Greenland

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Erik the Red

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1st European to reach North America

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Leif Erikson

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Charles Martel stops Muslim invasion of Western Europe

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Battle of Tours in 732 AD

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first Carolingian to become king, son of Charles Martel, father of Charlemagne, expands Frankish kingdom

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Pepin the Short