Dark ages people and terms

has every person I could find, and any term I could find

Justinian

• He fought in many expensive battles against the goths bankrupting the empire

• His wife was theodora

• Nika revolt

• He made a set of laws based off the roman, the laws were inspired by christian values

• He built the Hagia Sophia

Herakolios

• He had no money

• Exarchate

• The theme system

• He fought the Persians then the Muslims

Leo

• Iconoclasm

Constantine

• Backed up his dad with iconoslasm

Irene

• Kills her son

• Says iconoclasm is heresy

• Tries to buddy up with Charlemagne

• Saint

Basil

• He expands the empire

• He had a lot of mercenaries that were vikings especially harald hardrada

• No buffer states between real enemies

• After his death the ottomans took over

Alp Arslon

• Lead the Turks agaisnt the Byzantines

Sultan Mehmed

• Invaded constantinople

saint benidict

• “Ora et Labora” work and pray

• He founded many monasteries

• It was a system of bells that told the monks exactly what to do every day

• he was not popular

pope gregory

• Big fan of monasteries

• He had many monks convert the germanic people to Jesus

• He would mesh Christian beliefs with pagan ones

saint patrick

• Slave in ireland who escaped but returned to convert the people

theodora

• Told justinian that she would only die in constantinople

thedudelinda

• Queen of the Lombards who conviced the king to convert

reccared

• king who converted the visigoths

clovis

• He founds the Merovingian Dynasty

• who fought for/opposed the romans

• He converts because it makes him more powerful

charles martel

• He fought the muslims at the Battle of Tours 

• He did not have a professional army and got them from the pope land claims

• After the battle the Carolingians became more powerful the the merovingians

pepin

• He started as mayor of the palace but became king as by the pope, he then donate land to the pope

charlemagne

• Expands the frankish kingdom

• Protects christianity ie: kicks muslims out of spain

• He built schools and tries to teach people to write

pope leo

• crowned Charlemagne as the emperor

alcuin

• A teacher were the greatest minds of the time began to meet

• Charlemagne went to him

• Was an advisor till he left to be an abbot

loius the pious

• son of charlemagne

Loius 2 & Lothar

• 2 sons of loius the pious

Charles the Bald

• 3rd son of loius the pious

• failed to pay off the vikings

Beaduheard

• first person to die to the vikings

harald Hardrada

• viking king who did many things

• died in england

Harled Godwinson & William the Conquer

• guys who fought and the winner was the 1st king of england

Ragnar Lodbrok

• raided paris

Charles the Fat

• succsesfully paid of te vikings

Rollo

• is given the land of normandy

• purpose is Protection, 1 less enemy

Charles the simple

• Gave away normady

Abo Cerrnus

• wrote about the siege of paris

• was a bad narrator

caesaropapism

• emperor is also the pope

iconoclasm

• “the breaking of images”

monasticism

• Monks or holy men living in monasteries, where they focus on prayer and fasting

book of kells

• Ex of a monasteries book as its christian Gospels with ornate illustrations

council of toledo

• a powerful group which picked visigoths kings and they oppress non christians

Gavelkind

• Each son would split the property of the dad evenly

Salic law of succsesion

• To become king you could not be connected to the last ruler by a women only a man

papal states

• land that the pope and his bishops own

Exarchate

• a fort built in far away places to protect the central city

Theme system

• where local generals had military and political power of a region, this meant the farmer/soldiers of each region wanted to fight more