Today in West Civ we took notes on Charlemagne: Bold=Test Question
-New date of Middle Ages is 476- 1453 AD
-What happened in 476? Romulus Augustulus was told to step down so no emperor means no empire.
-New Society has classical heritage of Rome, beliefs of the Roman Catholic Church, and customs of various Germanic tribes
-These invaders cause disruption of trade, downfall of cities, and population shifts to rural areas
-Loyalty was lost because the people of the town only cared who the lord of the manor was not the lord of the government
-Clovis rules the Germanic people out of Gaul
-In 496 he has a battlefield conversion making he and his 3000 soldiers Christians
-511 Franks are made into one kingdom making Clovis and the Church partners
-Church + Frankish rulers = rise in Christianity
-520 Benedict writes rules for monks: vows of poverty(live simply in monasteries), chastity(no marital relations), and obedience (listen to church superiors)
-Sister Scholastica wrote similar rules for nuns
-Operate schools, maintain libraries, and copy books
-Pope Gregory gets worldly power(secular)
-Definition of theocracy is Church revenues are used to help the poor, build roads and raise armies
-Gregory's kingdom (Christendom) extends from Italy to England from Spain to Germany
-Clovis rules Franks
-Most of Europe consists of smaller kingdoms
-Clovis' descendant is Charles the Hammer (Charles Martel)
-Hammer defeats a Muslim raiding party from Spain at the Battle of Tours in 732(if not won then Western Europe would become part of Muslim empire)
-Charles Martel has son-Pepin the Short
-He works with the Church and is named king by the grace of God by the pope
-Pepin dies in 768, leaving two sons
-Son #1 Carloman dies in 771
-Son #2 is Charles known as Charlemagne
-He wanted to build another empire like Rome
-Fought and spread Christianity
-Most powerful king in Western Europe
-Tries to become very powerful
-Treaty of Verdan was Charlemagne's grandchildren split up the empire and all three grandchildren get a piece of the empire
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