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313 CE
When Constantine legalized Christianity in the Roman Empire
476 CE
The end of the Roman empire (no definite date, just counted as when the last west Roman emperor was deposed)
590 CE
Pope Gregory becomes Pope
793 CE
When the Vikings started raiding (Lindisfarne)
800 CE
Coronation of Charlemagne by Pope Leo (Christmas Day)
843 CE
Signage of the Treaty of Verdun
Apostles
Twelve of Jesus’s pupils who wrote some of the Gospels
The Gospels
The first four books of the New Testament of the Christian Bible
Constantine
The Roman emperor who announced an end to the persecution of Christians(he saw a cross - a symbol of Christianity - when he was praying for divine help to win his war, and he was victorious)
Edict of Milan
The edict in which Constantine declared Christianity to be one of the religions approved by the emperor
Patriarch
the head bishop of Constantinople, would meet and talk with the Pope, the head bishop of Rome
Bishops
a senior member of the Christian clergy, usually in charge of a diocese and empowered to confer holy orders (oversee a religious district/make someone a priest or monk)
Benedict
created the Monte Cassino monastery and the traditional Benedictine values which consisted of ample sleep and food, constant prayer, and hard labor
Franks
A germanic peoples who lived in western and central europe
Counts
A head of one of hundreds of regions of Charlemagne’s empire
Missi Dominici
Charlemagne’s messengers. Literally “the lord’s messengers”
Pope Leo
the Pope that Charlemagne had saved from being killed
Einhard
a frankish scholar and servant to Charlemagne who wrote his biography
Carolingian Renaissance
a renaissance carried out by Charlemagne that preserved and reconstructed many ancient latin manuscripts and put them into Carolingian miniscule
Carolingian miniscule
The new writing style invented by Charlemagne to replace the hard to read roman writing
Treaty of Verdun
The treaty that divided the Frankish Empire into three
Berserk
a frenzied scandinavian warrior who may or may not have taken drugs
Longships/drakken
The fast and versatile ships used by the vikings
Fief
The gift of land from a lord
Lord
The possessor and giver of land
Vassal
The receiver of land who fights for the lord
Bloodletting
When “professionals” let someone bleed some blood out to “balance their body fluids once more”
Humors
body fluids (there were four, fire (yellow bile or choler), water (phlegm), earth (black bile) and air (blood)
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