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Early Middle Ages
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Timeline Activity
Pages 242-243
●  Choose an event from the time line and
write a paragraph about the role religion
played in that event.
Vocabulary pg. 244-253
Middle Ages (244) A 1000 year period
between AD 500 to
1500
Pyrenees (245) mountain range that
isolates Spain and Portugal
from the rest of Europe
Page 245
Alps -mountain range that
Carpathians -mountain
separates Italy from Central
Europe
range that separates the
Ukraine and Russia from SE
Europe
Page 246
Anglo-Saxons -Germanic
Franks - strongest
group that pushed the Celts Germanic group, settled in
out of Britain
what is now France and
western Germany
Pages 246 & 247
Battle of Tours -battle
Papal States - large strip
that stopped the advance
of Islam in Western Europe
of Lombard land that Pepin
Martel claimed and gave to
the pope in AD 754
Page 248
Charlemagne - king of
the Franks, “Charles
the Great”
Scandinavia - Norway,
Sweden, and Denmark
Pages 249 & 251
Duke Otto of Saxony -
elected king of Germany, pope
crowned him emperor of the Romans
in 962 AD, his lands known as Holy
Roman Empire
Pope Gregory VII -fought
with Henry IV, claimed only the pope
could appoint high-ranking church
officials, excommunicated Henry IV
Page 251
Henry IV -
insisted on naming
his own bishops, excommunicated
by Pope Gregory VII, asked
forgiveness
Concordat of Worms
-AD
1122 agreement, the pope could
choose bishops but only the king
could give them government
posts
Page 252
Feudalism -political
order, nobles governed and
protected people in return
for services
Vassal - a low-ranking
noble under the
protection of a feudal
lord
Page 253
Fief - a feudal estate
belonging to a vassal
Knight - a mounted
man-at-arms serving a
lord
Page 253
Serf - a member of the
peasant class tied to the
land and subject to the will
of the landowner
Chivalry - the system,
spirit, or customs of
medieval knighthood