Middle Ages & Rome

When did the middle ages start?

• After the Fall of Rome in the 5th century CE

• After the Fall of Rome in the 4th century CE

• After the Fall of Rome in the 3rd century CE

• After the Fall of Rome in the 5th century BCE

What were some of the main differences between the life of a Roman Plebeian and a Medieval Peasant?

• Medieval Peasant had access to education, clean water, culture, and trade

• Roman Plebeian never left his village

• Medieval Peasant started every day with a hot bath, attended school, and a market

• Roman Plebeian had access to education, clean water, culture, and trade

What were the reasons Rome lost control of Europe?

• Political infighting

• Loss of cultural heritage and Greek invasions

• Invasion of barbarian tribes, overtaxation, and the rise of Christianity

• The rise of Christianity, a coup d’etat, and loss of cultural heritage

Why did the loss of Classical Culture happen?

• Loss of a common language, disuse, the Church wiped them out

• Everyone died

• Barbarians invaded

• Roman culture died out

What was most art, philosophy, literature, law and thought connected to during the Middle Ages?

• Roman civilization

• Christianity

• Kings and Queens

• Renaissance

How long did the middle ages or medieval period last?

• From the 5th to the 15th century CE

• From the 4th to the 16th century CE

• About a thousand years

• Until the 5th century CE

Why do historians know a lot about Europe in the Roman period and not the Dark Ages?

• The Roman period is more interesting to historians

• The Dark Ages are supposed to be a secret

• Historians study the Romans in school

• The Romans kept excellent records

What does the “Dark Ages” refer to?

• The time after the Byzantine Empire when much of the Byzantine culture and knowledge was lost.

• They hadn’t invented the light bulb yet

• When the Roman Empire fell there wasn’t a central government to record events of Europe anymore

• Historians don’t know much of that time period because not much happened

What changed in language after the Roman Empire fell?

• Everyone started speaking barbarian

• The united common language was lost, literacy fell, and barbarian languages were used instead

• Barbarians wrote poetry and made everyone read it

• Everyone still spoke Latin even though the Romans were gone.

When did Western civilization really begin branching out again?

• When the Roman Empire fell

• When the barbarians lost

• When the Renaissance began

• When the Roman Empire started