Middle Ages 1.0

_____________ ceased to exist after 476CE. It fell for numerous reasons- political chaos, weak emperors, the decline of duty, courage and honesty

• The British Empire

• The Han Dynasty

• The Roman Empire

• The Mayan Aristocracy

____________________ brought down the Roman Empire, sacked Rome repeatedly, and brought chaos and danger across Europe

• Mongol hordes

• Germanic Barbarians

• Islamic invasion

• Extraterrestrial attacks

Check the correct boxes: The Germanic barbarian tribes included

• Ostragoths

• Visigoths

• Celts

• Maghribs

• Vandals

The Huns raided the Empire, sacked Rome but did not stay to settle. Instead they returned eastward and settled in

• California

• Jutland

• Anatolia

• Hungary

The Anglo-Saxons were a barbarian tribe from Denmark who migrated west across the English Channel to conquer

• Canada

• Norway

• the British Isles

• the Maghrib

They were the strongest Germanic tribe - they settled in France and western Germany and established a stable kingdom by the 600’s CE

• The Georges

• The Michaels

• The Franks

• The Lithuanians

_____________________ leads the Franks against the Islamic invasion of Europe and wins

• Frank Scissorjaws

• Ollie the Pikeman

• Charles Hammerhand

• Arnold Stonehead

Crowned Holy Roman Emperor by the Pope in 800CE, __________________________ ruled unchallenged, uniting most of Western Europe for the first time since the Roman Empire

• Constantine

• Cornelius Fudge

• Pepin the Small

• Charlemagne

_____________________________ was a period of cultural and intellectual activity in Europe, a flowering of scholarship, literature, art and architecture in the 800's CE.

• the Carolingian Renaissance

• the Florentine Renaissance

• the Islamic Golden Age

• the Enlightenment

A social pyramid, with the Lord on top, with nobles and church leaders below him, knights and soldiers below them, and peasants and serfs on the broad bottom level

• parliamentary democracy

• dictatorship

• the feudal system

• Confucianism