WHI.7c Analogies Assignment

Pope is to emperor as missionaries are to …

• Germanic tribes

• Byzantine merchants

• feudal lords

• secular scholars

The Church’s role in maintaining social order is analogous to monasteries’ role in …

• preserving classical (Greco–Roman) knowledge

• administering Papal courts

• crowning new rulers

• converting tribes

Just as the Pope’s crowning of emperors legitimized political power, missionaries’ work …

• converted Germanic tribes to Christianity

• established local legal systems

• reformed feudal contracts

• built monumental cathedrals

Charlemagne’s coronation by Pope Leo III is to the foundation of the Holy Roman Empire as …

• missionaries spreading the Latin alphabet is to the cultural integration of Germanic tribes

• parish priests organizing festivals is to local community rituals

• secular kings funding armies is to military expansion

• monasteries creating libraries is to knowledge preservation

The transmission of the Latin alphabet to the Germanic tribes by missionaries is analogous to …

• the spread of Christianity through conversion

• the establishment of Papal States

• the crowning of emperors

• the development of feudal law

As papal authority filled the void left by declining secular power, monasteries …

• preserved and transmitted classical heritage

• administered civil justice

• expanded territorial borders

• imposed strict social hierarchies

The Church’s provision of social welfare (such as hospitals and care for the poor) is to community support as …

• monasteries preserving Greco–Roman achievements is to educational preservation

• emperors commissioning art is to cultural display

• feudal lords collecting taxes is to economic control

• secular courts enforcing laws is to legal regulation

Just as the Papal States represented the Church’s governance over territories, the conversion efforts by missionaries represented the Church’s …

• religious expansion among the Germanic tribes

• administrative restructuring of local governments

• economic reforms in medieval society

• diplomatic relations with neighboring empires

Conversion efforts by missionaries are to religious transformation as the Carolingian Renaissance is to …

• cultural and intellectual revival

• the expansion of territorial borders

• the formalization of legal codes

• the rise of feudalism

The act of crowning an emperor by the Pope is to establishing political legitimacy as monasteries …

• preserve classical texts to ensure intellectual continuity

• collect tithes to fund military campaigns

• build cathedrals to attract pilgrims

• train clerics to administer sacraments