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Scandinavian Norsemen
________ " (Northmen) "explored Europe by its seas and rivers for trade, raids, colonization, and conquest due to a lack of arable land and overpopulation on that land.
Pepin
________ was the first king of the Carolingian Dynasty, sworn to protect the Papcy.
Franks
Clovis I was one of the first Merovingian kings (named after the ________ legendary leader, Merovech)
polytheistic religion
The Vikings observed a(n) ________, but gradually converted to Christianity.
Charlemagne
________ became the first Roman Emperor since 476 ad.
Charles the Great
________, a.k.a Charlemagne, created an empire through military conquest that would unite Western Europe.
William the Conqueror
________ (Duke of Normandy) conquered England in 1066.
formal language of Western Europe
Latin became the ________ and The Church (Roman Heritage redefined and linked to the Church and to the Monarchs)
Significance
________: coming together of Germanic power, Roman heritage, and the Roman Catholic Church.
Goths
The ________ were an East Germanic tribe originating in Scandinavia (specifically Gotaland and Gotland)
Christianity
________ became the religion of Western Europe.
Charles Martels son
________, Pepin the Short, fought the Lombards (Germanic force, invading central Itay)
Vandals
The ________ were an East Germanic tribe that entered the late Roman Empire during the 5th century.
Northern Italy
The Lombards were a Germanic people who established a kingdom in ________.
Clovis I
In 496 CE (AD), facing defeat in battle, ________ called upon the Christian god to deliver him from his enemies.
Vikings
________ settled in the areas known today as Russia, Iceland, and Greenland, and briefly in North America.
