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Chapter 7
The Early Middle (Medieval) Ages
Early Middle (Dark) Ages: 500 – 1000
High Middle Ages: 1000 – 1250
Late Middle Ages: 1250 - 1500
Focus Q: October 5
What do you have to do the leave a legacy?
Be nice? Don’t kick the dog?
Be a good kid, husband, wife?
Know anyone who left a legacy?
What’s the big deal w/ Charlemagne?
7.1 Focus Q
See map on page 217.
Check out which invaders built
settlements.
What can you infer (figure out) about
these groups from the fact that they
settled in regions they raided?
Notebook
• Organization may be 10% of
notebook grade
• The Table of Contents is your guide
• Keep things in the right order
What will we learn?
What happens in
Western Europe after
the Roman Empire
collapses
Charlemagne rules
for a short time and
spreads Christianity
Why?
Europe is largely
Christian. This is the
beginning.
To understand the
chaos of the Middle
Ages
Ch. 7 vocab
Charlemagne 7.1
troubadour 7.2
Knight 7.2
Papal supremacy 7.3
Journeyman 7.4
Serf 7.2
fief 7.2
vassal 7.2
apprentice 7.4
charter 7.4
The Early Middle (Medieval) Ages
French castle
Chambord, France
Aragon, Spain
Butrón castle, Spain
Europe cut off from Middle East, China, India
Vocab review
1. Work in pairs
2. draw a picture
3. put on board, students guess what term
it is
Western Europe Declines
• After the collapse of Rome, W. Europe
declines politically, socially, economically
• Invaders slow trade, towns empty,
classical learning stops—Dark Ages?
• **Really was blending of Roman,
Germanic, and Christian traditions—
later called the Middle Ages**
Franks (Germanic tribe) Get Power
Clovis
• conquerors Gaul (France)
• Preserves much of the
Roman legacy
• Converts to Christianity
• Gains an ally in the Pope
Muslims threaten Europe
• Islam begins around 600
• Expand their empire from Palestine to N.
Africa to Spain
• Charles Martel defeats Muslims at Battle
of Tours in 732 (see map p. 215)
• Who will be Martel’s grandson?
Where’s the Roman Empire?
Who’s most powerful?
Just for laughs…….
• Man who not poop for many days must
take care of back log.
• Man who run in front of car get tired.
Man who run behind car get exhausted.
**Charlemagne** (Charles the Great)
1. Grandson of Charles Martel
2. Fights Muslims for much of his
46 yr. reign
3. Briefly reunites much of western
Roman empire
4. *created a united Christian empire*
Charlemagne:
742 to 814
• Why the cross?
• Fights Slavs,
Lombards,
Saxons, and
Muslims
New Emperor of the Romans
1. Charlemagne helps Pope battle
Muslims
2. **Pope, show gratitude, crowns
Charlemagne Emperor of the Romans**
• revives the idea of a united Christian empire
• makes emperor of eastern Roman empire
angry
• deepens the split btwn the eastern and
western Christian world
Pope Leo III Crowned Charlemagne
Holy Roman Emperor: Dec. 25, 800
The Age of Charlemagne
Charlemagne’s Legacy p. 217
1. Tried to use Christianity to unite his
kingdom
Education too
2. Created strong, efficient govt
3. Blended Germanic, Christian, Roman
traditions
Later Medieval rulers tried to follow this
example
Charlemagne’s Empire
Does his empire
remind you of
another empire?
The Roman Empire
Charlemagne’s Empire Collapses:
Treaty of Verdun, 843
Charlemagne’s grandson’s
split the empire
into 3 pieces.
Early Medieval Europe
Invaders—
Charlemagne’s heirs
face invasions
–Muslims
–Magyars
–Vikings
Vikings
• *Vikings break Charlemagne’s empire*
–From Scandinavia
–Warriors, traders, explorers, expert
sailors
–1000 get to North America: Leif
Erickson
Vikings or
Columbus?
Coats of Arms
Left side: Coat of Arms—Who am I?
1. Make a coat of arms that includes:
4 pictures of your values, beliefs, or
principles
A caption explaining each value
A family motto:
guiding principle