Ch. 5 People and Places

Question 1

Arius

Answer 1

Taught that Jesus was not God and influenced the Eastern Church. The Nicene creed was written to refute his teaching.

Question 2

Woden and Thor

Answer 2

gods of the Franks who were pagan

Question 3

King Clovis

Answer 3

King of the Franks, was baptized along with 3,000 soldiers following a battlefield prayer for victory.

Question 4

Clotilde

Answer 4

Clovis’ Christian wife who encouraged him to convert

Question 5

Charles “the Hammer” Martel

Answer 5

Best known for driving Moors (Muslims) out of France and into southern Spain.

Question 6

Pepin the Short

Answer 6

Son of Charles Martel he began the practice of giving Papal States

Question 7

Charlemagne

Answer 7

Crowned emperor in AD 800. Everyone thought he would restore Rome to its former glory.

Question 8

Saxons

Answer 8

Pagan nation that Charlemagne fought for over 30 years

Question 9

Pope Leo

Answer 9

The pope who crowned Charlemagne

Question 10

Henry the Fowler

Answer 10

Defied the Hungarians and established the first boundary between France and Germany.

Question 11

King Otto

Answer 11

Crowned emperor in AD 962

Question 12

Pope Gregory VII

Answer 12

Tried to excommunicate Henry IV over the argument of who could appoint bishops.

Question 13

Henry IV

Answer 13

Argued with Pope Gregory VII, but eventually had to give in.

Question 14

Barbarian Tribes

Answer 14

Goths, Lombards, Burgundians, Bulgars, Saxons, Franks–All nations that claimed pieces of the fallen Roman empire.

Question 15

Gual

Answer 15

The barbarian tribe of the Gauls lived in what became present day France

Question 16

Moors

Answer 16

Muslims people in Spain who were driven back by Martel. Some were converted to Christianity by Charlemagne

Question 17

Papal States

Answer 17

Land given as a gift to the church by emperors. A practice began by Pepin the Short. The only remaining Papal State is now Vatican City.

Question 18

Vatican City

Answer 18

Assigned to the Catholic church through a treaty with Italy in 1929 it is the headquarters of the Roman Catholic Church and the world’s smallest independent state.

Question 19

St. Peter’s Church

Answer 19

Charlemagne was crowned emperor here.

Question 20

simony

Answer 20

The practice of buying a church office. The name comes from a NT story of a man named Simon who tried to buy the power of miracles for Peter.

Question 21

excommunicate

Answer 21

To be cut off from church membership and privileges

Question 22

scepter

Answer 22

A symbol of authority used by Kings

Question 23

counts

Answer 23

Placed in charge of each of Charlemagne’s counties