-Charlemange spread Chirstian civilization throughout northern Europe
Middle ages- medieval period (500-1500 AC)
- Invasions trigger change in western Europe
- Invasions and constant war sparks new trend
- disruption of trade
- Europe's cities are no longer economic
- Money is scarce
- Downfall of cities
- Cities are no longer centers of administration
- Population shifts
- Nobles retreat to the rural areas
- Cities don't have strong leadership
- Decline in learning
- Germanic invaders are illiterate but they communicate through oral tradition
- Only church officials could read and write
- Knowledge of Greek, literature, science and philosophy are almost lost
- Loss of a common language
- Dialects develope in different regions
- By the 800's, French, Spanish, and other Roman-based languages are evolving from Latin
- Germanic kingdoms emerge
- The concept of government changes
- Roman society: loyal to the public government
- Germanic society: loyal to family
- Germanic cheif led warriors
- During peace, he provided food, weapons, treasure, and a place to live (lord's hall)
- During wartime, warrioirs fought for the lord (not the king)
- ""The king? Who's that? You want to collect taxes from me?"
- Franks lived in the Roman providence of Gaul- their leader was Clovis
- The Franks under Clovis
- Another battlefield conversion
- Clovis and 300 of his warriors are baptised by the bishops
- The church in Rome approve of this alliance
- Clovis and the church work together
- Germanic people adopt Christianity
- 511 AD- Clovis unites the Franks into one kingdom
- 600 AD- Church + Frankish rulers convert many
- Fear of Muslims in southern Europe spur many to become Christian
- Monasteries and convents
- 520 AD- Benedict wrote the rules for monks and monasteries
- Poverty, chastity, obedience and study
- His sister Scholastica did the same for nuns in convents
- 731 AD- the Venerable Bede wrote the history of England
- Monks opened schools, maintained libraries, and copied books
- (Pop) Gregory I expands papal power
- Papacy= pope's office
- Secular power= worldly power
- The church can use its money to raise armies, repair roads, help the poor
- Gregory the Great began to act as Mayor of Rome and as head of an earthly kingdom (Christendom)
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