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What is another name for abbess?

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Convent

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They managed to preserve the Roman tradition of government (in Italy)

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Ostrogoths

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Where was Roman influence weaker?

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Britain

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This Ostrogothic king kept the entire structure of imperial Roman government except that he used separate systems of rules for Romans and Ostrogoths

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Theodoric

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They are Germanic tribes from Denmark and northern Germany who carved out small kingdoms throughout the island such as Kent

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Angles and Saxons

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A number of them set up new states when the imperial authority vanished

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German kings

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What dynasty was Clovis from?

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Merovingian dynasty

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True or false.

Ostrogoths were governed by their own customs and their own officials

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True

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9
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One of the prominent German states on the European continent was what?

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Kingdom of the Franks or Frankish kingdom

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The establishment of the Frankish kingdom was the work of who?

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Clovis

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A sect of Christianity who believed that Jesus had been human but not truly God

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Arian

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12
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The Christian church in Rome regarded the Arians as what?

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Heretics

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They inherited and continued to maintain much of the Roman structure of government (in Spain)

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Visigoths

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What Latin word was “pope” derived from? What does it mean?

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Papa; father

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What are the three major areas of the divided Frankish kingdom?

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Neustria (northern Gaul); Austrasia; former kingdom of Burgundy

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After Clovis’ death who divided his newly created kingdom?

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His sons

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17
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The ordeal was based on what intervention?

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Divine intervention

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18
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It is the revenge on the family of the wrongdoer by the family of the injured party

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Blood feud

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He was considered as the chief apostle and first bishop of Rome

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Peter

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20
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They are the dominant ones and made all the important decisions in the family

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Males

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20
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Most women had life expectancies of what?

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30 or 40 years

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What does abbot mean?

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“Father” of the monastery

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How many percent of women died in their childbearing years?

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15%

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It is the value of a person in monetary terms

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Wergeld or man money

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They are people who believed in teaching different from the official church doctrine

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Heretics

26
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What was the empire that he had inherited and created known as?

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Carolingian Empire

27
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What does wergeld mean?

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Man money

29
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They believed that ______________ would not allow an innocent person to be harmed

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Divine forces

30
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The Christian community in each city was headed by whom?

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Bishop

31
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Subsequent bishops of Rome were considered Peter’s successors and came to be know as what?

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Popes

32
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What are the four great cities that has the bishop who held positions of special power in church affairs?

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Rome, Jerusalem, Alexandria, Antioch

33
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It is a fine paid by a wrongdoer to the family of the person killed or injured

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Wergeld

33
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The bishop of ______ claimed that he was the sole leader of the western Christian church

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Rome

34
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According to Christian traditions, Jesus had given the keys to the kingdom of heaven to whom?

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Peter

35
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In what century were the popes successful in converting pagan peoples of Germanic Europe?

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Sixth century

36
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What does missi dominici mean?

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Messengers of the lord king

37
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A man who sought to live a life divorced from the world is called what?

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Monk

39
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What is the Latin for Charles the Great?

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Carolus Magnus

42
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In 800, what was the title that Charlemagne acquire?

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Emperor of the Romans

43
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He established the basic form of monastic life in the western Christian church

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Saint Benedict

44
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What was the enemy of the soul for monks?

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Idleness

45
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How many times do monks gather in a day?

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7

45
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Each Benedictine monastery was strictly ruled by whom?

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Abbot

46
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The bishoprics of each Roman province were joined together under the direction of whom?

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Archbishop

47
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What Latin word was “monk” derived from? What does it mean?

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Monachus; one who lives alone

47
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Men : Monks :: Women : ________

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Nuns

48
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They are the head of a monastery for nuns

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Abbesses

49
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He is a mayor who took the logical step of assuming the kingship of the Frankish state for himself and his family

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Pepin

50
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After Pepin’s death who was next to throne?

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Charles the Great or Charlemagne (his son)

51
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True or false

Charles the great was unable to read and write himself

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True

51
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Who established the missi dominici?

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Charles the Great

52
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What were the biographers of Charlemagne regard him as?

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Father of Europe

53
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An establishment wherein two men who were sent out to local districts to ensure that the counts were executing the king’s wishes

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Missi dominici

54
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The area of jurisdiction of the bishop is known as what?

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Bishopric or diocese

55
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They are people who were an important component of the new European civilization

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Germanic peoples

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