Middle Ages Vocab Quiz

Clovis led this Germanic people who lived and held power in Gaul. By 511 they had united into one kingdom and they controlled the largest and strongest parts of Europe.

• Franks

• Goths

• Serfs

• Children's Crusade

religious community of men who have given up their possessions to devote themselves to a life of prayer and worship

• Monastery

• Commune

• School

• Convent

His book included guidelines that turned monasteries into centers of stability and learning.

• Benedict

• Scholastica

• Venerable Bede

• Leif Ericson

• Eleanor of Aquataine

Is thought to have been an abbess of a convent near the monastery founded by Benedict and is considered the first nun of the Benedictine order.

• Benedict

• Scholastica

• Venerable Bede

• Leif Ericson

• Eleanor of Aquataine

Scholars consider his "History of England" the best historical work of the early Middle Ages

• Benedict

• Scholastica

• Venerable Bede

• Leif Ericson

• Eleanor of Aquataine

Believed to be the first European to reach North America around 1000 AD, almost 500 years before Columbus

• Benedict

• Scholastica

• Venerable Bede

• Leif Ericson

• Eleanor of Aquataine

As the queen of England, she was the mother of two men that later became kings, Richard the Lion-Hearted and John. Troubadors would flock to her court...one of the most powerful women in the Middle Ages.

• Benedict

• Scholastica

• Venerable Bede

• Leif Ericson

• Eleanor of Aquataine

Defeated the Muslim forces at the Battle of Tours...leader of the Franks

• Charles Martel

• Pepin the Short

• Charlemagne

• Richard the Lion-Hearted

• Saladin

The pope rewards him for helping to defeat the Lombards by naming him king of the Franks. In return, he gives the Pope land called The Papal States.

• Charles Martel

• Pepin the Short

• Charlemagne

• Richard the Lion-Hearted

• Saladin

One of two sons of Pepin the Short. Pope Leo III crowned him emperor. Built an empire in Europe (dates 771-814) greater than any known since ancient Rome.

• Charles Martel

• Charlemagne

• Richard the Lion-Hearted

• Saladin