THE RISE OF EUROPE

Chapter 7

THE MIDDLE AGES Times between ancient and modern

500-1500

Medieval – culture during the Middle Ages

GERMANIC KINGDOMS The rise of the Goths, Vandals, Saxons,

and Franks

Farmers and herders, no cities or written laws – unwritten customs

Swore allegiance to kings for weapons and plunder over conquered people

KING CLOVIS 486 – conquered Gaul, converted to

Christianity

Why?

Started Merovingian Dynasty

CHARLES MARTEL Read page 215 Witness History

Muslim advances

Battle of Tours

CHARLEMAGNE Charles Martel’s grandson

Charles the Great

46-year reign fighting the Muslims

DECEMBER 25, 800 Charlemagne named Emperor of the

Romans by Pope Leo III

Christendom

MISSI DOMINICI Provincial rulers to check on roads,

listen to grievances, and see that justice was done

ALCUIN OF YORK Created a curriculum that included

grammar, rhetoric, logic, arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy

Hired scholars to copy the Bible in Latin