Middle ages review

• 476-1453 AD Middle Ages
• They followed their heritage after Rome and their costumes after Germanic tribes
• 5th century Germans invade the western half of the Roman empire causing a disruption of trade, the downfall of cities, and population shifts to rural areas
• decline in learning
• warriors were loyal to their lord
• Clovis rules the Franks 
• 496- battle field conversion- 3,000 of his warriors became Christian
• 511- Franks are united under one kingdom with Clovis and the church working as partners 
• 520- Benedict writes rules for monks 
• vows of poverty 
• chastity
• obedience 
• Scholastica wrote rules for nuns
• Bede wrote the history of England
• Government based around the church- theocracy 
• Europe is made up of smaller kingdoms 
• Charles Martels son- Pepin the Short 
• son #2- Charles known as Charlemagne or Charles the Great 
• 6 foot 4 
• most powerful king in western EUROPE 
• kept a close watch on the huge estates 
• Louis the Pious' 3 sons- Lothair, Charles the Bald, and Louis the German split up the kingdom into 3 sections at the treaty of Verdun in 843 AD