Today we went over the power point for the third time. we had a shadow then we worked on what ever we wanted.

This new society has roots in classical heritage of Rome

Beliefs of Roman Catholic Church

Customs of various Germanic

Over run the western half of the Roman Empire

Causing disruption of trade

Downfall of cities

Population shift to rural areas

Germanic warrior’s loyalty is to the lord of the manor he provides them weapons treasure

No orderly government for large areas

Small communities rule

Clovis riles the Germanic people fuel known as the franks

Church revenues are used to help the poor build roads and raise armies

This is a theocracy

franks control largest European kingdom
the roman province formerly known as Gal
ruled by Clovis
major Domo mayor of the palace ruled the kingdom
Charles Martel Charles the hammer
extended the franks reign to the north south and east
defeated a Muslim army from Spain at the battle of tours in 732 historic battle
Charles the hammer son
possible named for his unusual short haircut
working for and with the Pope Pepin fought the Lombard
pope Stephen 2 named Pepin king by the grace of god beginning the Carolingian Dynasty 751-987 ad
Pepin the short had two sons Carolman and Charles
Carolman died leaving
Charlemagne aka Charles the great
six foot four
built the greatest empire since Rome
fought the Muslims in Spain
Fought Germanic tribes
spread Christianity
Reunited Western Europe
Became the most powerful king in western Europe
Pope Leo 3 crowned him emperor in 800 AD after he defended him from an unruly Roman mob
this signaled the joining of Germanic power, the Church, and the heritage of the Roman Empire
charlemagne government
he limited the authority of the nobles
he regularly visited every part of his Kingdom
kept close watch on his huge estates
cultural revival
encouraged learning
ordered monasteries to open schools
opened a palace school but his heirs were weenies
his son Louis the Pious was ineffective
Louis three sons Lothair Charles the bald and Louis the German split up the Kingdom at the Treaty of Verdun in 843 AD

Germanic kingdoms unite under Charlemagne
mail idea many Germanic kingdoms that succeeded the roman empire were reunited under Charlemagne's empire
Charlemagne spread christian civilization thought northern Europe which is where many of us came from.
middle ages medieval period
500- 1500 AD
medieval Europe is fragmented
invasions constant warfare spark new trends
disruption of trade
Europe cities are no longer economic centers
money is scarce
downfall of cities Spanish other roman based languages are evolve
cities are no longer centers of administration
population shift
nobles retreat to the rural areas
cities don't have strong leadership
decline of learning
Germanic invaders are illiterate but they communicate through oral tradition
only priest and church officials could read and write
knowledge of Greek is almost lost
loss of common language
dialects develop is different regions
by the 800s French Spanish other roman based languages are evolving from latin
Germanic kingdoms emerge
the concept of government changes
roman society loyal to public gov
Germanic society loyal to family
Germanic chief led warriors during peace he provided food weapons treasure a place to live
during wartime warriors fought for the lord
the king who that you want to collect taxes from me who the heck are you
franks live in the roman province of Gaul their leader is Clovis
Germanic kingdoms under Clovis
another battlefield conversion
Clovis and 3000 of his warriors are baptized by the bishop
the church in Rome approves of this alliance
Clovis and the church begin to work together
pope Gregory 1 expands papal power
papacy popes office
secular power worldly power
so under Gregory the great
the church can use church money to raise armies
repair roads
help the poor
Gregory the great began to act as mayor of Rome and as head of an earthly kingdom
511 ad Clovis unites franks into one kingdom
600 ad church Frankish rulers convert many
fear of Muslims in southern Europe super many to become Christians
monasteries and convents
529 ad Benedict wrote the riles for monks and monasteries
poverty chastity obedience study
his sister scholastic did the same for nuns in convents
731 ad the venerable Bede wrote a killer history in England
monks opened schools maintained libraries, and copied books

Today is class we did not really do much. All I did was work on homework from last night and listened to music. Other then that i did not do much. I know my blog is short but i have a lot of other things for homework.

the upheaval of the early middle ages ended not in a collapse of civilization but in its renewal and the first two early medieval centuries set the patterns for how this renewal would later take place in western and eastern Europe. the two centuries after the fall of Rome were a time of turmoil in  Europe that would continue for five hundred years a half millennium that counts as the early a part of the middle ages.
the baptism of Clovis and ivory plaque made about ad 900 depicts the founding event of the kingdom of franks four centuries earlier.
Medieval refers to the destructive civilization of the middle ages which developed in Europe after the disintegration of the roman empire
noble a member of the warrior landowner group that formed the elite of medieval Europe
486 Clovis leads Frankish confederacy against Romans and rival Germanic invaders in Gaul
527 to 565 reign of emperor Justinian in the eastern empire
542 plague hits Egypt then spreads through the Mediterranean are and much of western Europe
568 Lombard conquer most of northern Italy 570-632 life of Muhammad
595 missionaries sent by pope begin to convert the pagans of England
711 Muslim invasion of Spain
800 Slavs occupy almost all of eastern Europe

Diocletian
he rules From 284 - 303
its cool to persecute Christians
rome needs a big army
rome needs a big government
take roman empire and divide it in half
constantine
rules from 306 - 337
its cool to be a christian
conversion to Christianity 313 his edict of Milan proclaims freedom of worship what ever who ever you want
built a new capital in the east
Byzantium soon to be known as Constantinople named after him self
life in the fourth entry
country dwellers are getting bankrupted by endless tax collection
new farming system peasants work for elite landlords on large farms
peasants can avoid paying taxes, but they are getting hit just as hard by landlords
paying off debts and being allowed to live on the land in exchange for endless back-breaking work
landowners hold local power as counts and bishops, wielding more real power than the faraway empire
foreshadowing feudalism
Rome's power is decreasing, while nomadic barbarians gain power
western empire is to poor, begins to be neglected
Huns migrate from china to eastern Europe
Visigoths take over Spain, and actually capture and loot Rome itself in 410
vandals control Carthage and the western Mediterranean
from beginnings
500 bc the monarchy is abolished
450 bc the twelve tables
glory days
44 BC end of the line for Julius Caesar
27 BC 180 AD the Rome peace
to the bitter end
constant fifth century invasions by barbarian tribes left the western Rome Empire shattered and crumbling
the last emperor was a teenage boy installed in 475 by his father
barbarians deposed Romulus Augustus without bothering to kill him