chapter12: the early middle ages section 1: early european kingdoms
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Chapter12: The Early Middle Ages Section 1: Early European Kingdoms. Lil Boo Boo World History Period 1. A. The People And Land Of The Middle Ages In Europe. Main Idea: The Weakened defense of the old Roman borders cleared the path for Germanic speaking groups to invade Europe. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Chapter12: The Early Middle Ages
Section 1: Early European Kingdoms
Lil Boo Boo World History
Period 1
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A. The People And Land Of The Middle Ages In
Europe • Main Idea: The Weakened defense of the old
Roman borders cleared the path for Germanic speaking groups to invade Europe.
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A. The People And Land Of The Middle Ages In Europe• The Geography of
Western Europe – Much of the land during the
early middle ages was covered with thick forest.
– Their was large swift rivers that made it easy for trading ships, to navigate.
– People had left the cities and moved to the country side where they could grow their own foods.
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A. The People And Land Of The Middle Ages In Europe• The People Of The
Middle Ages In Europe – The People of northern
Europe did not share the culture or the Latin language of the Romans
– Therefore the people of Europe organized into small groups and spoke Germanic language and were called Germanic people.
– They moved from place to place to defend themselves from attack. They fought to gain lands that had better soil for farming and better grazing for their animals.
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B. The Empire Of The Franks
• Main Idea: Charlemagne was crowned Roman emperor, ruler of a large empire in western Europe.
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B. The Empire Of The Franks • Uniting The Franks
– Around 481, Clovis was able to unite several of the franks groups.
– Clovis led a combined force against the collapsing roman army into Gaul.
– Clovis conquered Gaul in 496 and converted into Christianity. As a Christian he gained support of the people of Gaul.
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B. The Empire Of The Franks• The Rise Of Charlemagne
– Charlemagne lived to be 72 years old nearly twice the average life span at the time.
– He ruled as the kings of the franks for 46 years, from 768 to 814.
– Charlemagne conquered lots of people and , controlled the largest region since the fall of Rome. Also, he improved, culture, education, and law, within his kingdom.
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B. The Empire Of The Franks• A Christian King
– As Charlemagne expanded his kingdom, he tried to force the conquered peoples to become Christian.
– He demanded strict punishment for anyone who practiced any other religion.
– From showing all his power, the pope crowned him because he felt that he had accomplished a lot of things.
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C. The Age Of Charlemagne
• Main idea: Charlemagne’s rule encouraged culture and learning to develop in Western Europe.
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C. The Age Of Charlemagne
• Schools And Learning– During the middle ages most people
could read but couldn’t write, including the successful leader Charlemagne.
– To help change the situation, Charlemagne brought in scholars from England, Germany, Spain, and Italy.
– One great thing was parents was charge no fee, or tuition, but they could contribute whatever they could afford.
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C. The Age Of Charlemagne
• Culture– Charlemagne was so
interested in learning he had Nobles to travel around the kingdoms.
– In search of the conditions of the roads, and the state of the crops, and loyalty of local administrators.
– His leadership brought so much attention and improvement everyone wanted to be apart of Charlemagne’s kingdom.
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C. The Age Of Charlemagne
• The Decline Of Charlemagne’s Empire– With Charlemagne death in 814,
the empire he had built went into slow decline.
– His three grandsons signed the Treaty Of Verdun. In which divided his empire into three kingdoms.
– At that, it aloud invaders to conquer large parts of the kingdom. The empire didn’t last long after his death but however his standards for learning and governing remained a model for many centuries.
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Franks• The people of a Germanic federation
who lived in the area that is now France, the Low Countries and part of Germany.