History, Section 6
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- Normally only a ____ from a _________'s _________ could be a ________
- male from a nobleman's family could be a knight
- Age _, a boy became a ____
- seven, a page
- The boy becoming a page learned ________ _________
- proper manners
- Age 7 a boy became a page, also began learning to use
- weapons
- In his teen years the boy became a _____
- squire
- When a boy became a squire, he learned to
- fight
- A squire would _____________ the knight to _______, but did not ________
- accompany the knight to battle, but did not fight
- About age __, he had to demonstrate his fighting skills in _______
- 21, he had to demonstrate his fighting skills in batttle
- If he did well, he became a knight in a ceremony called
- dubbing
- Code of behavior for knights
- chivalry
- Emphasized _______, ________ _____, _______ and good _______
- bravery, fighting fairly, honesty and good manners
- Estate that a nobleman owned was called a
- manor
- A fief might have numnerous
- manors
- Almost everything the people of the manor needed was grown or manufactered there
- manor
- Vast majority of people in the middle ages were
- peasants
- Most peasants were
- serfs
- Serfs were NOT
- slaves
- Serfs could not leave the manor without the lord's
- permission
- As the _________ ______ ________ declined, its territory fell under the control of ___________
- western Roman Empire fell under the control of barbarians
- Extremely fierce
- The Huns
- Were from Asia
- The Huns
- Their most famous leader was Attila
- The Huns
- Known as the "scourge of God"
- The Huns
- Settled in present day Freance and Western Germany
- The Franks
- His wife was a Christian
- Clovis
- He promised he would become a Christian if he won a certain battle
- Clovis
- After winning, ______ was baptized and he forced __________ _____ ___ ______ to be baptized with him
- Clovis was baptized and he forced thousands of his soldiers to be baptized with him
- United the Franks under one government
- Clovis
- Known as the founder of the French nation
- Clovis
- Sent troops to Italy
- Pepin the Short
- Whose troops defeated the Lombards?
- Pepin the Short's
- _____ then gave some of the Lombard's land to the _____
- Pepin the Short then gave some of the Lombard's land to the Pope
- Land was called the ________ ___ _____ or the _________ _______
- donation of Pepin or Papal States
- Son of Pepin the Short
- Charlemagne or Charles the Great
- Excellent general
- Charlemagne or Charles the Great
- His many military victories nearly doubled the size of the Frank's empire, his empire included _________ ___ ________, __________ _____, ____________ _____ and ________ _____
- present-day France, western Germany, northern Spain and northern Italy (Charlemagne)
- In AD 1200, the pope named him "___ _______ __ ___ _______"
- the emperor of the Romans
- In theory, he was the _____ _______ emperor in _________ ___ years
- first Roman emperor in hundreds of years
- In truth Charlemagne's empire was only ________ ___ and it was quite different from the _________ ______ empire
- loosely united and it was quite different from the earlier Roman
- _________'s new title meant ______ _____
- Charlemagne's new title meant very little
- A few decades after Charlemagne's death, his
- three grandsons divided the empire among themselves
- Also called Norsemen or Northmen or Normans
- Vikings
- Vikings were also known as
- Northmen, Norsemen and Normans
- Ruthless
- The Vikings
- Good sailors
- The Vikings
- In the early they lived in -later they moved to other areas
- Middle Ages they lived in Scandinavia
- They probably reached _______ ______
- The Vikings, North America
- Towns and cities decreased in ________, people moved to ____ ________
- population, people moved to rural areas
- There was much ______ during the Middle Ages
- warefare
- Little trade or travel occurred because of _________ _______, ______ _____ and _____
- poor roads, poor bridges and robbers
- Most kings were ___ ____ ________
- not very powerful
- System of dividing ladnd that began in western Europe
- Feudalism
- A person who owned the land was called a
- Lord
- person who received the land was called a ______
- vassal
- How did feudalism work?
- A person called a lord would give part of it to another person
- The vassal (person that recieved land from the lord) would promise to do several things including
-
1. providing military assistance to the lord
2. help pay for the lord's ransom of he were captured - The land that the lord gave to the vassal was called a
- fief
- Vassals often divided their land among other vassals-therefore a person could be both a
- lord and a vassal
- Lords, vassals, other knights and their families were called
- noblemen
- When a lord or vassal died, his land was normally inherited by the
- oldest son
- Mock battles held by knights were called
- tournaments
- These were also called a joust
- Tournaments
- some _________ were not serfs-this group had more _________
- peasants,-this group had more freedom
- peasants made up ___% of the population
- 90
- Nobles made up __% of the populatioin
- 10
- Became extremely powerful during the Middle Ages
- Roman Catholic Church
- secular clergy-name from lowest to highest
-
1. parish priests
2.bishops
3.archbishops
4. Pope - In charge of the RCC in a community called a parish
- Parish priests
- Wife was a christain
- Clovis
- Promised to become a christian if he won a certain battle
- Clovis
- after winning, he was baptized and had thousands of his soldiers baptized with him
- cLOVIS
- Known as the founder ofthe french nation
- clovis
- defeated the lombards
- pepin the short
- pepin gave some of the lombard's land to the pope-was called
- papal states
- the pope was now a ________ leader as well as a ________ leader
- political leader as well asa religious leader
- his many military excursions nearly doubled the frank's empire-his empire included present day france, western germany, northern spain and northern italy
- charlesmagne
- pope crowned him "emperor of the Romans"
- charlesmagne
- in theory, was the first in hundreds of years
- western roman emperor , charlesmagne
- in truth 's empire was only loosely united and it was quite different from the earlier roman empire
- charlesmagne
- after his death, his 3 grandsons divided his empire among themselves
- charlesmagne
- the holy roman empire was made up of
- mainly present day germany-also included present day austria, switzerland and other areas