Early Middle Ages

True or False: The collapse of the Roman Empire in 476 C.E. marks the beginning of the period in Europe known as the Middle Ages.

• True

• False

Historians divide the Middle Ages into 3 different periods of time, which are... [Choose 3]

• The Early Middle Ages

• The Low Middle Ages

• The High Middle Ages

• The Late Middle Ages

Modern-day France was named after...

• Charlemagne

• the Franks

• Clovis

• the Romans

The Franks were successful in ruling Western Europe because they developed a new style of warfare which depended on...

• Archers

• Knights

• Battering Rams

• Trebuchet

Which Frankish king conquered Gaul (modern-day France) and converted to Christianity?

• Clovis

• Charlemagne

• William the Conqueror

True or False: Many Franks became Christians after Clovis was baptized into the Roman Catholic Church.

• True

• False

Was also known as "Charles the Great," this Frankish king unified most of the Christian lands of Europe into a single empire.

• Clovis

• Charlemagne

• William the Conqueror

• William of Orange

To build his empire and be crowned the "Holy Roman Emperor," Charlemagne worked together with...

• the Muslims

• the Vikings

• the Magyars

• the Roman Catholic Church

True or False: Charlemagne's system of rewarding knights with land and privileges ultimately prepared the way for Feudalism.

• True

• False

The economic and political system of medieval Europe in which people exchanged loyalty and labor for a lord's protection is called...

• feudalism

• chivalry

• fiefs

• a monarchy