Ch2 Lesson 1 The EARLY MIDDLE AGES

Europe is surrounded on three sides by water, which makes it a landform known as a _____.

• peninsula

• continent

• island

• plateau

  
  

to exclude a person from church membership

• excommunicate

• Otto I

• fjord

• Charlemagne

  
  

German king the pope declared emperor of the Holy Roman Empire

• Otto I

  
  

• fjord

• concordat

  
  

• Charlemagne

  
  

an inlet of the sea between cliffs or steep slopes

• fjord

  
  

• concordat

  
  

• excommunicate

  
  

established Christianity as the religion of his kingdom

• Charlemagne

  
  

• excommunicate

  
  

• Otto I

• concordat

  
  
  

agreement between the pope and the ruler of a country

• concordat

  
  

• Charlemagne

• excommunicate

  
  

• Otto I

  
  

Europe’s seas and rivers played an important part in Europe’s growth because they provided both protection and opportunities for

• 
  invading other lands

• combining kingdoms.

• 
  trading with nearby economies.

• converting distant groups to Catholicism.

Which was a Germanic people who settled the area known today as France?

• Angles

• Celts

• Franks

• Saxons

Charlemagne created a general policy that brought what to his people?

• education

• equality

• freedom

• religion

Between 800 and 900 C.E., parts of Europe were invaded by Muslims, Magyars, and

• Vikings.

• Vandals

• Finns

• Gauls