Graded Notes T1/Ln 1

The thousand years between the fall of the Roman empire 476/ 1453 C.E. is known as the _____

• Renaissance
• Dark Ages
• Middle Ages
• Enlightenment
• Ancient Era

The capital city of the Byzantine Empire was _____. Its location allowed it to be Europe's busiest marketplace.

• Constantinople
• Jerusalem
• Cairo
• Rome
• Athens

Emperor Justinian was an _____, meaning that he was the sole ruler with complete authority.

____ was a secret weapon that likely contained petroleum and gave the Byzantine navy a significant advantage over their enemies.

In 600 and 700s, Arab armies overran the wealthy Byzantine provinces of _____ [and] _____, before advancing on Constantinople. The city resisted the Arab advance, giving a measure of security to the small German kingdoms of Western Europe.

The 'Middle Ages' is divided into the early Middle Ages, lasting from ____ to 1050 CE and the late Middle Ages, from 1050 C.E. to 1350 C.E.

• 400 CE
• 1000 CE
• 800 CE
• 500 CE
• 600 CE

The strongest and most successful of the Germanic kingdoms during the Middle Ages was that of the ____. In 486 C.E., their king, Clovis, conquered the former Roman province of Gaul, later known as France.

When a Muslim army crossed into France, Charles Martel rallied Frankish warriors. The Christian Franks defeated and stopped a Muslim invasion of Western Europe from the Iberian Peninsula at the ____ __ ____ in 732.

In 768, the grandson of Charles Martel, the hammer, became king of the Franks. He built an empire that reached across what is today France, Germany, parts of Italy, and Spain. He became known as ______. He spent much of his 46-year reign fighting Muslims in Spain, Saxons in the North, and Slavs in the East.

Charlemagne kept control of his provinces by sending out ____ ____ to check on roads, listen to grievances, and see that justice is done in cases of the holy churches, the poor, wards and widows, and the whole people.