The Foundations of Christian Society In Western Europe
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Charlemagne | ruled the Western European empire; was not friendly to Islam |
| Battle of Tours | his grandfather, Charles Martel, had defeated a Muslim army that ventured into Frankish territory after Muslim forced had conquered most of the Iberian Peninsula |
| Odoacer | the Germanic general; deposed the last of the western Roman emperors, but the adminnistrative apparatus of the Roman empire did not immediately disappear |
| The Franks | profoundly influenced the political, social, and cultural development of western Europe; rapid rise had to do with religion |
| Clovis | a strong military and political leader; the Franks became the preeminent military and political power under him in Western Europe |
| Carolingians | after Clovis's death the Frankish kings lost much of their authority, as aristocratic warriors seized effective control of affairs in their own regions; this established Clovis's sucsessors' empire thing?; founder Charles |
| Battle of Tours | he turned back a Muslim army that had ventured from Spain-- recently conquered by Muslim warriors from North Africa--in order to reconnoiter lands north of the Pyrenees mountains |
| Charles Martel | "Charles the Hammer" founder of the Carolingians; led the battle of tours; served as a deputy to the Franks; Charles's son claimed the throne for himself |
| Charlemagne | Charles martel's grandson; Charles the Great; like King harsha; extremely intelligent though not literate; was not rich, so he had counts and missi dominici |
| Counts | held political, military, and legal authority in local jurisdictions; often had their own political ambitions, and they sometimes pursued policies contrary to the interest of the central government |
| Missi Dominici | 'envoys of the lord ruler" made to keep the counts in check |
| Louis the Pious | Charlemagne's only surviving son, kept the empire together; but then he died and it was all downhill from there; his sons were like everyone else |
| Norse Mariners/ Norse Expansion | viking invasions represented on dimension of a larger process of Norse expansion because they needed more land; norse mariners just had really good ships |
| Viking | were fierce and sailed really great ships that got them far |
| England and their ways of defending | they united their kingdom with he help of King Alfred |
| Germany | just had a really good army; King Otto |
| Serfs | individuals neither fully slave nor fully free |
| manor | a large estate consisting of fields, meadows, forests, agricultural tools, domestic animals, and sometimes lakes or rivers, as well as serfs bound to the land |
| Low Countries | the lowland region of western Europe on the North Sea: Belgium and Luxembourg and the Netherlands |
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