Test Tomorrow

Today in Western Civilization Class, we were reviewing for the test that will take place tomorrow. We reviewed by having Matt and Phil teach the class.  There review was pretty funny and Mr. Schick told us what some of the test questions will be and some of the ideas for the test.

Test ideas:

• France comes from the Franks
• Clovis has a battlefield conversation- he and his warriors become Christians, he prayed to God and they won the battle 
• Clovis and the Church works together- people liked this 
• Church + Frankish Rules = rise in Christianity 
• 520- Benedict wrote the rules for monks 
• vows of poverty 
• chastity 
• obedience 
• Scholastica writes the rules for the nuns 
• operate schools 
• Church revenues are used to help the poor, build roads, and raise armies
• This is a THEOCRACY
• CHRISTENDOM- Christians in the Kingdom
• Most of the rest of Europe consists of smaller kingdoms (7 in England alone) 
• Charles the Hammer 
• Charles the Hammer defeats a MUSLIM raiding party 
• if he did not do this, we could be muslim 
• PEPIN THE SHORT- Charles the Hammer's son
• Pepin has two sons 
• Carolman- dies in 771 
• Charlemagne (Charles the Great) - 6"4 
• CHARLEMAGNE 
• built the greatest empire since Rome
• fought the Muslims in spain 
• Fought the Germanic Tribes
• spread Christianity 
• Reunited Western Europe 
• Became the most powerful king in western Europe 
• Pope Leo III crowned his emperor 
• this signaled the joining of Germanic powerful Church and the heritage of the Roman Empire 
• Limited the authority of the nobles 
• regularly visited his kingdom 
• kept close watch on his huge estates 
• cultural revival 
• learning
• ordered monasteries to open schools 
• opened a palace school 
• His son- Louis the Pious (ineffective) 
• Louis has 3 sons 
• Lothair 
• Charles the Bald 
• Louis the German 
• Split up the kingdom at the TREATY OF VERDUN- 843 AD