Chapter 9 Key People Flashcards
Diocletian
A roman emperor who divided the empire to improve it’s administration
Constantine
A roman emperor who legalized Christianity and moved the empire’s capital to Byzantium
Theodosius
The roman emperor who made Christianity the official state religion and banned pagan worship
Attila
The fearsome ruler of the Huns
Odoacer
A German General who forced the abdication of the last roman emperor
Augustine
A Christian monk who converted thousands if Anglo-Saxon people
Charles Martel
A mayor of agent manic kingdom famed as Europe’s savior from Islamic conquest
Pepin
King of the franks in 751; son of Charles Martel and father of Charlemagne
Charlemagne
“Charles the Great”; the most commanding and successful of the early medieval warrior kings who reunited most of western and Central Europe
Pope Leo III
The pope who crowned Charlemagne “Emperor of the Romans”
Alcuin
A learned Benedictine English monk who assembled scholars who copied manuscripts, founded libraries, and set up schools, monism arise, and cathedrals throughout Europe
Otto the Great
A Germanic conqueror who conquered the Magyars and was crowned emperor by the pope in 962
Clovis
The Frankish King who adopted Christianity