Jeopardy 9
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- Monasteries
- Centers of culture in Ireland
- People
- Source of German law
- Thor
- God of war and thunder
- Huns
- Fierce nomadic people from Asia who invaded Europe
- Battle of Tours
- Battle of 732 in which the invading Arabs were defeated
- Alaric
- Visigoth king who led the sack of Rome in 410
- Woden ( Odin )
- Chief German god
- Islam
- Religion the invading Arabs hoped to spread throughout Europe
- France
- Modern-day country that takes its name from the Franks
- St. Patrick
- Famed missionary who brought Christianity to Ireland
- Clan ( tribe )
- Basic unit of German society
- Germany
- Modern country that developed from the Eastern Frankish kingdom
- Sagas
- Heroic stories of the Vikings
- Dark Ages
- Term formerly used for the Early Middle Ages
- Clovis
- King who first brought all Franks under one rule
- Baltic Sea
- Body of water crossed by Viking raiders heading toward Russia
- Mercia
- Important kingdom in central England
- France
- Modern country that developed from the Western Frankish kingdom
- Canterbury
- Center of the Christian church in England, as established by Augustine
- Opening of trade routes, learning shipping skills
- An advantage of Viking raids for Europeans
- Slavs, Avars, Arabs ( Muslims )
- The invading peoples defeated by Charlemagne
- Picts, Scots
- The two peoples of northern Britain (modern Scotland)
- Magyars
- Asian invaders who reminded Europeans of the Huns
- Gregory I
- Pope who decided to convert the Anglo-Saxons to Christianity
- Eddas
- Heroic or mythic poems of the Vikings
- Christianity
- Religion the Frankish king and his warriors converted to
- Atlantic Ocean
- Body of water the Vikings crossed to get to Greenland and North America
- Warrior
- Primary occupation of Viking men
- Vandalism
- A German tribe gave its name to this word; the willful and senseless destruction of property
- Spain
- European country occupied by Romans, then Vandals, then Visigoths
- Charles Martel
- Leader who defeated the invading Arabs
- Beowulf
- Epic Anglo-Saxon poem
- Danelaw
- Northeastern region of England ruled by the Vikings
- Norway
- The three kingdoms of the Vikings
- North Sea
- Body of water crossed by the tribes that invaded Britain
- Irish Sea
- Body of water between Britain and Ireland
- Greenland, Iceland
- The two North Atlantic islands colonized by Norwegian Vikings
- Brutal and Pitiless in Fighting
- A characteristic of Vikings that terrified Europeans
- Canute
- Danish ruler who became king of England
- No Written Language
- Why the Germans didn't write their own history
- Northumbria
- Important kingdom in northern England
- Common Religion, Language
- Two characterisitics shared by most Franks that helped them to feel united
- Charlemagne
- Frankish king who became "Emperor of the Romans"
- Wales, Western Scotland, Ireland
- Lands the Celts fled to from Britain
- Pepin ( the Short, III )
- First Frankish king personally crowned by the pope
- Odin ( Wotan )
- King of the gods
- Kingdom
- Form of government set up by invading Germans
- Shipbuilding
- What the Vikings used much of their abundant timber for
- Danes
- English term for invading Vikings
- Lombards
- German tribe that moved across the Alps into northern Italy
- Danube
- River valley along the Roman Empire's border where many Germans settled
- Norsemen ( Northmen )
- Europeans' term for Vikings
- Shires
- Local districts of England
- Anarchy
- State of European society after the German invasions destroyed the Roman Empire
- Eric the Red
- Norwegian adventurer who founded a colony on Greenland
- Thor
- God of thunder and lightning
- Burgundians
- German tribe that moved into central Gaul
- Women, Slaves
- Members of German society who did most of the work
- Warrior
- Primary occupation of German men
- St. Augustine
- Head missionary to Anglo-Saxons
- Trade
- Occupation of seafaring Vikings in addition to raiding
- Vinland
- Vikings' name for the sport on the coast of North America where they landed
- Scandinavia
- Far northern Europe
- Alfred the Great
- King of Wessex who fought the invading Vikings
- Angles
- Tribe that gave its name to England
- Rhine
- River along which the Franks lived
- Ethelbert ( king of Kent )
- Anglo-Saxon king who allowed the missionaries to teach about Christianity
- Valhalla
- Where German warriors expected to spend their afterlife
- Paris
- Capital of the Frankish kingdom under Clovis
- Schools
- Vikings had none of these for their children
- Celts
- Early inhabitants of Britain, who were conquered by Romans
- Peasant Class
- Status of most English people
- Louis the Pious
- Charlemagne's only surviving son
- Leif Eriksson
- Eric the Red's son, who sailed to North America
- Sheriffs
- Officials who governed local districts in England
- Treaty of Verdun
- Agreement that divided the empire among Charlemagne's three grandsons
- Aix - la - Chapelle
- Charlemagne's capital city
- Angles, Saxons, Jutes
- Three Germanic tribes that invaded Britain around 450
- Normandy
- Area of France where Danes settled in large numbers
- Charles the Great
- English translation of both Charlemagne and Karl der Grosse
- Ostrogoths
- East Goths, driven westward by the Huns
- Runes
- Viking letters of the alphabet
- Church
- Institution that supported the Franks after they converted
- Education
- Charlemagne made this available even to some lower-class children
- Vandals
- German tribe that used its kingdom in North Africa as a base for pirate raids
- Visigoths
- West Goths; they capture and plundered Rome