The Amazing Charlemagne Quiz!

After the Roman Empire fell, this part remained, and still functions today.

• Roman Catholic Church

• the Roman army

• gladiator fights

• Roman money

The largest group of people migrating through Europe after Rome fell was called the:

• Saxons

• Vandals

• Franks

• Ostrogoths

In the early ad 800s, a Frankish king named Charles inherited a large kingdom in what is now _________________.

• Kentucky

• Denmark

• Italy

• France

Charles ______________ the size of his kingdom to include what is today Germany, France, northern Spain, and most of Italy!

• halved

• doubled

• tripled

• quintupled

These conquests won Charles the name of Charlemagne (SHAHR • luh • MAYN), which means '______________________________.'

• Charles the Bizarre Tattoo Artist

• Charles the Normal

• Charles the Great

• Charles the Just

It was important to Charlemagne that his people be:

• educated

• kind to animals

• well-dressed

• all of these

Students at the schools he started studied:

• Latin

• Music

• Literature and arithmetic

• all of these

After Charlemagne died in 814, his empire:

• lasted until the present day as the nation we call Poland.

• was divided into 3 kingdoms.

• was washed away by a tsunami.

• was sold to the Russians for $47.

These 3 Frankish kingdoms, and the rest of Europe, were prey to attacks from invaders, including:

• Vikings

• the Cincinnati Reds

• Vandals

• Corellians