Middle Ages

The Christian church built religious communities called ........ where monks lived and devoted their lives to god.

• Monasteries

• Manors

• Fiefs

• Churches

The heir to the Frankish Kingdom who extended Frankish rule was named

.................... , or Charles the Great.

• Carloman

• Charles Martel

• Charlemagne

• Pepin the short

This era of European history called the ........................... began with the

decline of the Roman Empire.

• Feudalism

• Middle Ages

• Enlightenment

• Renaissance

The ...................... were a Germanic people who were in power in the

Roman province of Gaul.

• Vikings

• Saxons

• Lombards

• Franks

The most powerful person in the Frankish kingdom in 700 was known as ....................

• King

• Prince

• major domo

• The Pope

When Pepin the Short became “king by the grace of God,” this began the.......

• Song Dynasty

• Han Dynasty

• Merovingian Dynasty

• Carolingian Dynasty

Powerful landholders who governed their counties under Charlemagne were

called..........

• serfs

• counts

• vassals

• monks

The three sons of Louis the Pious signed the ............ , which

divided the empire into three kingdoms.

• Guided Assessment

• Treaty of Verdi

• Treaty of Verdum

• Treaty of Paris

...................... is considered to have been the first nun of the

Benedictine order.

• Benedict I

• Mary

• Scholastica

• Benedict II

Charlemagne won the ........ and stopped the spread of Islam

• Battle of Anjou

• Battle of Tours

• Battle of Paris

• None