Dark Age Kingdoms pt. 2

Charlemagne

Late 8th century - Mid 9th century

Carolingian ruler by military campaign

Aachen (Capital city, “New Rome”)

Admonitio Generalis (Set of legal reforms)

Abul Abbas (White elephant gifted to him)

Missi Dominici (Envoys of the lord, groups of two)

Capitulare de Villis (Outline of how the king’s estates are to be run)

Abbey of Fulda

Mid 8th century

Bridgehead to the Saxons

Outpost/center of learning

St. Boniface interred here (missionary, later martyr)

Abd al-Rahman

Early 10th century

Umayyad caliph of Cordoba

Founded Medina Azahara

Qanat (irrigation system)

Alcuin and Benedict

Late 8th century

Irish Monks

Part of Charlemagne’s court

Responsible for schools and scriptorias to Carolingian Empire

Al-Mansur

Mid 8th century

Abbasid Caliph

Political operator of genius

Vik

Late 8th century - late 9th century

Old English stem of “Viking”

Althing (Government assembly, longest-standing form of government)

Lindisfarne (only bishopric in Northumbria, attacked in 794)

Dublin (Irish Round Tower, attacked in 841)

Longphorts (Scandinavian wintering quarters outside of Dublin)

Siege of Paris (845, led by Ragnor, sacked monasteries)

Varangians (Settled along Volga River, probably means “Oath people”)

Berengar, King of Italy

Late 9th century - Early 10th century

Last Carolingian in Italy

Crowned emperor by Pope John X

Magyars

Mid 9th century

Settled in Carpathian Basin after traveling for 500 years

Battle of Augsburg (910, Carolingians forced to pay reparations)

Called on by Arnulf of Carinthia to fight his cousins (Late 9th century)

Santa Prassede

Early 9th century

Commissioned by Pope Paschal

Catacombs (bodies of martyrs deposited in walls)

Relic Translation (Moving relics to a new place)

Chapel of S. Zeno (Chapel for Paschal’s mother)

Ottonians

Mid 10th century

Started by Otto the Great (Crowned emperor by Pope John XII)