WorksheetsGraded Notes (The Early Middle Ages) T1: L1
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 14mins
The thousand years between the fall of the Roman empire in 476 to 1453 is known as the _____
The capital city of the Byzantine Empire was (a) . Its location allowed it to be Europe's busiest marketplace.
Emperor Justinian was the sole ruler of Byzantine empire with complete authority. He was an (a) .
(a) 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 Egypt and (a) , before advancing on Constantinople. The city resisted the Arab advance, giving a measure of security to the small German kingdoms of Western Europe.
The strongest and most successful of the Germanic kingdoms during the Middle Ages was that of the (a) . 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 Battle of (a) 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 (a) . He spent much of his 46-year reign fighting Muslims in Spain, Saxons in the North, and Slavs in the East.
To restore Roman Glory, Justian launched a program to make Constantinople grander than ever. His great triumph wa rebuilding the (a) , which means "Holy Wisdom"
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.
(a)
After Charlemagne died in 814, his grandsons battled for power. They drew up the ____ __ ____, which split the empire into three separate regions in 843, just at time when these lands were faced with new waves of invasions
(a)
____ ____ set up a short lived Viking colony in North America circa the year 1000 C.E. Other Vikings opened up trade routes that linked northern Europe to the Mediterranean and settled in England, northern France, Ireland, and Russia.
(a)
Go to Map: Invasions of Europe, 700-1000 (page 54)
Explore the information about Viking, Magyar, Muslim, and Viking invasions and settlements.
Answer the following question. Which statement gives the best summary of the movements shown on the map?
The Vikings, Muslims, and Magyars raided Europe from the south, north, and west.
The Vikings, Muslims, and Magyars raided Europe from the north, south, and east.
The Vikings, Muslims, and Magyars raided Europe from the south and settled in France.
The Vikings, Muslims, and Magyars invaded Europe from Russia and settled in Scandinavia.
About 900, a new wave of nomadic people, the (a) , overran Eastern Europe and attacked the Byzantine Empire. They moved on to plunder Germany and parts of France and Italy. Finally they settled in what is today, Hungary
The most destructive raiders were the (a) . These expert sailors and fercious fighters burst out of Scandenvia, a region that now includes Norway, Swedan, and Denmark. They looted and burned communities.
