P. 151-152

Quote: "The upheaval of the early middle ages ended not in a collapse of civilization but in its renewal, and the first two early medieval centuries set the patterns for how this renewal would later take place in western and eastern Europe"

• two centuries later- time of turmoil that will continue for 500 years
• medieval- refers to the distinctive civilization of the middle ages
• Romans gradually stopped working 
• cities were not longer the center of trade, social life, and warfare 
• missionary monks- brought christianity 
• land by the Franks 
• kings ruled in partnership with warrior-landowners and church leaders
• surviving east contributed to west's chaos 
• 700- constantinople ruled by Anatolia
• also known as Byzantium 

Chronology 

• Angles and Saxons invade Britain 
• 486- Clovis leads Frankish confederacy against Romans and rival Germanic invaders in Gaul
• 527-565- Reign of Emperor Justinian in the Eastern Empire
• 542- Plague hits Egypt, then spreads throughout the Mediterranean area and much of Western Europe
• 568- Lombards conquer most of northern Italy 
• 570-632- Life of Muhammad 
• 595- Missionaries sent by the pope begin to convert the pagans of England
• 711- Muslim invasion of Spain 
• 800- Slavs occupy almost all of eastern Europe