These are the test questions for tomorrow:
- AD 476 to AD 1453 Middle Ages
- this new society has roots in:
- classical heritage of Rome
- beliefs of the Roman Catholic Church
- customs of various Germanic tribes
- overrun the western halp of the Roman Empire causing:
- disruption of trade
- downfall of cities
- population shifts to rural areas
- decline of learning
- tribes had oral tradition, songs, but couldn't read Greek or Latin
- Romance languages evolve (French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian)
- few besides priests were literate
- Germanic warriors' loyalty is to the lord of the manor he provides them with food, weapons, treasure. Result:
- no orderly govt. for large areas
- small communities rule
- Clovis rules the Germani people of Gaul, known as the Franks.
- in 496 he has a battlefield conversion - he and 3000 of his warriors become Christians
- the Church in Rome likes this
- by 511 the Franks are united into one kingdom, with Clovis and the Church working as partners
- in 520, Benedict writes rules for monks:
- vows of poverty (live simply in monasteries)
- chastity (no material relations)
- obedience (listen to church superiors)
- his sister Scholastica writes similar rules for nuns
- they operate schools, maintain libraries, copy books
- Church revenues are used to help the poor, build roads, and raise armies. this is a theocracy.
- ost of the rest of Europe consists of smaller kingdoms
- Hammer defeats a Muslim raiding party from Span at the Battle of Tours
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