GERMANIC KINGDOMS 500 A.D.

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GERMANIC KINGDOMS 500 A.D.
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DARK AGES 500-1000

• INVASION BY GERMANIC TRIBES USHERS IN NEW ERA
  !
• ROMES COLLAPSE BRINGS ABOUT A CHANGE IN
• EUROPE- POLITICALLY, SOCIALLY, ECONOMICALLY!
• THIS TIME PERIOD IS REFERRED TO AS
• THE MIDDLE AGES OR MEDIEVAL
  TIMES
• 500-1000 - THE DARK AGES
• 1000-1350 THE LATER OR HIGH MIDDLE AGES
• THIS WAS A TIME PERIOD OF TRANSITION
  BETWEEN
• ANCIENT AND MODERN!!
• NEW INSTITUTIONS AROSE THAT HAD HERITAGE IN
  ROME
• THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH
• IDEAS OF GERMANIC TRIBES!!

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ROME COLLAPSESDARK AGES BEGIN 500-1000

• IT LEAVES A LEGACY OF
• LAW
• LANGUAGE
• RELIGION

• DARK AGES BEGIN
• A DECLINE IN
• COMMON LANGUAGE
• USE OF MONEY
• TRADE AND INDUSTRY
• LEARNING
• CITIES
• STRONG CENTRAL GOVT
• POPULATION- SHIFTS URBAN TO RURAL
• IMPORTANCE
• CHURCH IS STRONGEST INSTITUTION AND CLERGY MOST
  EDUCATED
• LATIN USED IN CHURCH

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GERMANIC TRIBES

• WARRIORS FIGHT OUT OF LOYALTY
• NO GOVT OFFICIALS OR TAXES
• LAW BASED ON CUSTOM
• NOT WRITTEN LAWS
• CLERGY MOST EDUCATED

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FRANKS

• EMERGE AS MOST STRONGEST KINGDOM
• 500S-
• CLOVIS- 1ST LEADER
• MEROVINGIAN DYNASTY
• CONVERTS TO CHRISTIANITY THIS CREATES BOND
  BETWEEN CHURCH AND KINGDOM
• 700S-
• MAYOR OF PALACE BECOMES MOST
• IMPORTANT KING IN NAME ONLY

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CHARLES MARTEL-MAYOR OF THE PALACETHE HAMMER

• FIGHTS THE MUSLIMS AT BATTLE OF TOURS
• RESULT- ISLAM DOES NOT SPREAD THROUGHOUT EUROPE!

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PEPIN THE SHORT 714(724)-768

• YOUNGER SON OF CHARLES MARTEL
• STARTS THE CAROLINGIAN DYNASTY
• CROWNED BY POPE-
• CREATES STRONG RELATIONSHIP WITH CHURCH AND
  KINGS
• POPE USES THIS TO JUSTIFY AUTHORITY OVER
  POLITICAL RULERS!
• POPE NEEDS HELP AGAINST LOMBARDS
• PEPIN DEFEATS THEM AND GIVES KEYS TO POPE CALLED
  PAPAL STATES
• POPE RULED THIS UNTIL THE 1800S!

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CHARLES THE GREAT AKA CHARLEMAGNE 742-814

• SON OF PEPIN
• OVER 64 IN ,STRONG RULER
• He battled for Christianity
• CROWNED KING BY POPE LEO IN Rome-EMPEROR OF
  ROMANS
• CREATES A STRONG GOVERNMENT
• FRANKISH KINGDOM REACHES ITS LARGEST SIZE UNDER
  HIM

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KINGDOM OF THE FRANKS
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ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF CHARLEMAGNE

• REUNITES LARGE AREAS OF EUROPE
• FRANKISH KINGDOM DIVIDED INTO COUNTIES CONTROLLED
  BY A COUNT
• MISSI DOMENICI TO CHECK ON COUNTS
• SPREAD CHRISTIANITY AT ALL COSTS
• ESTABLISHES PARISHES FOR THE CHURCH
• ESTABLISHES A TITHE -10 OF INCOME TO CHURCH
• ESTABLISHES SCHOOLS IN MONASTERIES
• PROMOTES REVIVAL OF LEARNING
• MONKS COPY ANCIENT MANUSCRIPTS

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DEATH OF CHARLEMAGNE 814

• LOUIS THE PIOUS-SON
• INHERITS KINGDOM
• HE DIES KINGDOM DIVIDED BETWEEN HIS SONS TREATY
  OF VERDUN -843
• EAST- LOUIS THE GERMAN
• MIDDLE -LOTHAIR
• WEST- CHARLES THE BALD