Today we learned and reviewed about charlame so i hope i do good. Ive been studing hard for it and i have been reviewing and everything. I had a great weekend to. I got first on my pony pirate and third on my horse broker. It was an eventing show. Then i went to a devon horse show with my friend and he Shetland pony won the pony race. Although some kids fell off. It was also a fair though and i got sunburnt. Anyways i hope i get an A on ur test tomorrow.

Test Questions:

AD 476 to AD 1453 Middle Ages

this new society has roots in:

• classical heritage of Rome 
• beliefs of the Roman Catholic Church
• customs of various Germanic tribes

overrun the western halp of the Roman Empire causing:

• disruption of trade
• downfall of cities
• population shifts to rural areas

decline of learning

• tribes had oral tradition, songs, but couldn't read Greek or Latin
• Romance languages evolve (French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian)
• few besides priests were literate

Germanic warriors' loyalty is to the lord of the manor he provides them with food, weapons, treasure. Result:

• no orderly govt. for large areas
• small communities rule

Clovis rules the Germani people of Gaul, known as the Franks.

in 496 he has a  battlefield conversion - he and 3000 of his warriors become Christians

the Church in Rome likes this

by 511 the Franks are united into one kingdom, with Clovis and the Church working as partners

in 520, Benedict writes rules for monks:

• vows of poverty (live simply in monasteries)
• chastity (no material relations)
• obedience (listen to church superiors)

his sister Scholastica writes similar rules for nuns

they operate schools, maintain libraries, copy books

Church revenues are used to help the poor, build roads, and raise armies. this is a theocracy.

ost of the rest of Europe consists of smaller kingdoms

Hammer defeats a Muslim raiding party from Span at the Battle of Tours