·
Middle ages
o
Gradual decline of the roman empire
o
Spanned from 500-1500
o
New society emerged
§ With classical
heritage of Rome
§ The beliefs
of the Roman Catholic Church
§ Customs of Germanic
tribes
·
In the 5th century Germanic invaders
overran over half of the roman empire
o
Merchants faced land and sea invasions
§ Money became
scarce
o
Downfall of cities
o
Roman city were left with without strong leadership
·
Germanic invaders did not know how to read or write
o
Lots of oral tradition
o
Rich in songs and legends
·
German peoples language mixed with the roman and
nobody could understand each other
o
By the 800s languages based off of latin evolved
·
Lots of shifts in boundries
·
More family ties and personal loyalty
o
Made it hard to have an organized government
·
German people were governed by unwritten rules
·
Clovis was the one to convert everyone to
Christianity
o
Won a battle after praising God
o
Everyone baptized after
·
Benedict made a set of rules for monasteries
o
His sister, scholastica, made a set of rules for
female monastaries
·
Major domo
o
Mayor of the palace
o
Charles martel
§ Charles the
hammer
·
Carolingian dynasty
o
Pepin ruled by the grace of god when his father died
o
Died in 768 with a strong Frankish kingdom
·
Charlemange took over in 771
o
Built the greatest empire since ancient rome
§ Conquered new
land
§ Fought Spanish
and muslim tribes
§ Became the
most powerful kind in western Europe
§ In 800,
traveled to rome to crush n unruly mob and pope leo III crowned him emperor
§ Limited the
power of noble
§ Surrounded him
with English, Spanish, Italian, and german scholars
§ For his
many son and daughters, he made a school
§ Crowned louis
the pious the king
·
Vikings invade from the north
·
Feudal system based on rights and obligations
o
Lord, granted to someone form military services
o
Fief, land owner
o
Knights
o
Serfs, bottom class
·
Manor
o
the lords
estate
o
Hard life to live on the lords manor
·
Tithe
o
A church tax
o
1/10 of their income
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